New Plan/Boomerang!

OK, here's the thing. We have 4 kids. Making time to watch movies in any kind of regular pattern just isn't happening over here. We do think we are going to meet our goal of watching every film nominated for an Oscar. We really do. We think we are probably going to be 86 when we do so, but that is beside the point. Therefore, we are not putting any time-limit here. When we happen to watch an Oscar-nominated film, we'll review it. (Or spoiler it, rather.) But no hard and fast rules on when. Cool? Cool.

However, we still do see a lot of movies. A lot of movies. And while we don't have the energy to write long and lengthy reviews of all of them, maybe that isn't necessary, needed, or even nice. How about just a little shout-out to the film-makers who bring us so much joy? Yes, that we can do. 

Boomerang! Perry Mason's father and Law & Order's grandfather:  a docu-noir ripped from the headlines. It was gloriously tense and shadowy. There's a mob scene about halfway in that's as creepy as it is subtle. Of course, the title makes no sense at all, but that's really a minor point when your film is directed by the ever complex Elia Kazan, features the always wonderful Lee Cobb, an impossibly young (and uncredited) Karl Malden, AND an Arthur Miller cameo. It was lovely.

Random Lee Cobb quote: "Theater is the medium of the actor. Film is the medium of the director. Television is the medium of nobody."

Wonder what he would think of the internet......