All the posts of July 2015
Probably everyone has had the discomfiting experience of siting stone-faced at a comedy while others in the theater are whooping with laughter. And so it was at the screening of Vacation, the gross followup to the Chevy Chase comedy from 1983, National Lampoon’s Vacation, a smash hit that launched a franchise. Judging from the laughter in the theater, this new movie should be popular, though it remains to be seen whether the hard-R rating will …
In 1966 John Frankenheimer directed one of his most audacious movies, Seconds, with a script by Lewis John Carlino from a novel by David Ely. It told the story of an older banker who solicits the help of a shadowy organization that will fake his death and reconstruct him with a brand new identity as well as a new face and body. The movie was a box office flop but has developed a cult following …
