Sunday, September 17, 2017
First Lines: Earl Derr Biggers - Seven Keys to Baldpate
A woman was crying bitterly in the waiting-room of the railway station Upper Asquewam Falls, New York.
Communion (1976)
aka Alice Sweet Alice
After a young girl is brutally murdered during her first communion, her strange and withdrawn older sister becomes the main suspect.
Low-budget thriller comes as close to an Italian giallo as it can: excellently creepy with surreal moments and an unlikely twist.
Halliwell (no star): "Moderate low-budget thriller, mainly of interest for the brief appearances of Brooke Shields in her first film, and of Roth as a pathologist."
Maltin**: "OK murder mystery is noteworthy as Shields' feature debut..."
Michael Weldon/Psychotronic: "...this movie is excellent despite the misleading hype. It's the best-made and most unsettling psycho-shocker in ages. A violently anti-Catholic feature...The murders, although not overly gory, are hard to look at, and the audience is clearly thrown off track. You won't be sure who did it until the end, and you won't believe Mr. Alphonse!"
J. Edgar (2011)
J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life.
Despite excellent period detail and good performances this biopic ticks off all aspects of Hoover's character only superficially and thusly doesn't lift itself above any former G-Men pic.
Maltin**: "One-note portrait of J. Edgar Hoover...Long, often boring account.....provides litle insight or understanding. DiCaprio works hard, but is miscast and never embodies the bulldog-like Hoover. Hammer's old-age makeup is so ludicrous it almost torpedoes the entire film."
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