Jo Thornely·20h agoOne Paragraph Movie Review: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s NestFour hundred and twenty-third film: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, finally. Brilliant for no single reason and creeping up on you from…
Jo Thornely·Oct 31One Paragraph Movie Review: Once Upon a Time in the WestFour hundred and twenty-second film: Once Upon a Time in the West, a 1968 Sergio Leone western. Sergio Leone is very very good at making…
Jo Thornely·Oct 17One Paragraph Movie Review: Once Upon a Time in AmericaFour hundred and twenty-first film: Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone’s very successful impersonation of Martin Scorsese at half…
Jo Thornely·Oct 9One Paragraph Movie Review: OnceFour hundred and twentieth film: Once, the 2007 musical romance film directed by one member of The Frames and starring another in Glen…
Jo Thornely·Oct 3One Paragraph Movie Review: On The WaterfrontFour hundred and nineteenth film: On The Waterfront, the 1954 movie that won Marlon Brando a best actor gong. In the first five minutes I…
Jo Thornely·Sep 26One Paragraph Movie Review: On The TownFour hundred and eighteenth film: On The Town, a musical from 1950 featuring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and that third guy. Look, I’m not a…
Jo Thornely·Sep 19One Paragraph Movie Review: Olympia Part OneFour hundred and seventeenth film: Olympia Part One, a documentary filmed at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Funded by Hitler and filmed…
Jo Thornely·Sep 12One Paragraph Movie Review: OldboyFour hundred and sixteenth film: Oldboy, a 2003 South Korean feel-bad masterpiece. The first time I saw it I spent 90 minutes wishing I…
Jo Thornely·Aug 29One Paragraph Movie Review: Odd Man OutFour hundred and fifteenth film: Odd Man Out, an Irish-set James Mason thriller from 1947. A movie about the fugitive head of a Belfast…
Jo Thornely·Aug 15One Paragraph Movie Review: The Nutty ProfessorFour hundred and thirteenth film: The Nutty Professor — the original 1963 version with Jerry Lewis. Okay, so usually Jerry Lewis annoys the…
