http://filmweviews.com We like movies! Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:54:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bela Lugosi's over-the-top performance as mad scientist Dr. Richard Vollin is not to be missed. Lugosi hams it up as a brilliant, egotistical surgeon that has a fanatical obsession with Edgar Allan Poe, keeping a stuffed raven on his desk and devices of torture described in Poe's tales in his ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/the-raven-2/ This is a B-movie in every sense -- brief, low-budget and bad, obviously made to show in theaters as part of a double feature. Secretary Susan Hart (Pamela Blake) takes on a job from a client while her cash-strapped private eye boss and boyfriend Russ Ashton (Tom Neal) is out ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/hatbox-mystery/ Fans of Coen Brothers' movies should check out this early gem. "Blood Simple" was the first commercial film by the brothers and the big-screen debut of Frances McDormand. Club owner and jealous husband Marty (Dan Hedaya) hires a scumball private detective to kill his wife Abby (McDormand) and her lover ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/blood-simple-2/ This movie doesn't include a murder -- or a mystery, for that matter. A publicity man for a movie studio (Frank Albertson) hatches a scheme to convince the press that the star of the latest gangster film (José Crespo) is a real gangster. Complications arise when real gangsters come after ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/hollywood-mystery-2/ Premise: Politically incorrect puppet super heroes destroy Paris and save the world. Fans of South Park may be disappointed. Ditto for fans of Alec Baldwin and Matt Damon. The film seeks to offend everyone, as does South Park, but overall it’s not nearly as funny. The first 30 minutes of "Team ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/team-america-world-police-2/ This is Astaire and Rogers first pairing as leads after their knockout supporting performances in "Flying Down to Rio" the year before. Lightweight plot finds Guy Holden (Fred Astaire) pursuing Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers). She's playing hard-to-get because she's still married to an absentee husband. Her Aunt Hortense (Alice Brady) ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/the-gay-divorcee/ Thirteen years after Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) first lit up the silver screen in "The Thin Man," the pair give their farewell performance in the sixth and final entry of the series with "Song of the Thin Man." Nick and Nora have aged a bit and ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/song-of-the-thin-man/ Equal parts comedy and zombie movie, "Shaun of the Dead" serves up laughs and frights and sends up zombie movies without becoming a caricature. Londoner Shaun's life is in disarray. He's lost his girlfriend, still sharing a flat with his waster friend Ed, hanging out at the same pub every ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/shaun-of-the-dead-2/ When a bag full of cash drops -- literally -- into her lap, Jane Palmer (Lizabeth Scott) is hellbent on hanging on to it, no matter who gets hurt. Her husband Alan (Arthur Kennedy) is a sap, and Danny Fuller (Dan Duryea) the thug who claims the money is rightfully ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/too-late-for-tears-2/ Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) spends an evening with spy Annabella (Lucie Mannheim), who tells him that important national security information is about to be smuggled out of England. After she's murdered in his apartment, Hannay is on the run being pursued by the bad guys and the cops. The plot ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/39-steps/