Ben Dutton (sc027)
Ben's Recent Reviews
Safe House
R
A pretty average seen it all before thriler. tt's not a bad film by any means, it's just not very interesting. There were a number of interesting ideas in here, fighting to get out but they seemed to pushed aside in favour of another action sequence of little excitement.
The Lady Eve
Unrated
A superior screw-ball comedy from the genius that was Preston Sturges. Barbara Stanwyck is sublime as Jean, the woman out to scam Henry Fonda's heir to the Pike Ale fortune (The Ale that Won for Yale!) who ends up falling in love for him then scamming him some more. There are wonderful set-pieces, cracking oneliners and a pace often missing in most modern Hollywood comedies. This is how you make a comedy! A delight from start to finish.
Ben's Favorite Movies
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Unrated
The most perfect piece of cinema made at the end of the silent era. Never has it been bettered.
The Apartment
Unrated
Bittersweet and some of the best dialogue ever heard in American cinema. Billy Wilder is a god.
