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December 25, 2023

Monday Movie: The Godfather Part II, by David Bax

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Godfather Part II originally ran part of our top 100 movies. Not being content to simply have made one of the most quintessential films about...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

August 11, 2022

Criterion Prediction #273: Dog Day Afternoon, by Alexander Miller

Title: Dog Day Afternoon Year: 1975 Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Charles Durning, James Broderick, Sully Boyar, Carol Kane, Lance Henriksen Synopsis: Mercurial Sonny (Pacino) and his unhinged cohort Sal (Cazale) stage a bank robbery...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 31, 2019

The Irishman: Dead House Painters, by David Bax

Any Martin Scorsese movie is (or ought to be) an event but The Irishman feels especially so. That has a lot to do with the much discussed and somewhat harangued runtime, just shy of three and a half hours. But...

movies / sarah brinks / top 100 challenge

December 12, 2017

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #2: The Godfather, by Sarah Brinks

I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. This is a bit of...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 7, 2017

The Pirates of Somalia: Yo Ho, by David Bax

You wouldn’t expect a movie called The Pirates of Somalia to begin with a shot of a snowplow doing its thing in the frost-blanketed Toronto suburbs. Director Bryan Buckley is counting on that, though. It’s the first clue that this will not...

movies / sarah brinks / top 100 challenge

November 18, 2017

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #9: The Godfather: Part II, by Sarah Brinks

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 11, 2011

What the Hell Happened to Adam Sandler? by David Bax

I’ve come to understand that Billy Madison is not as great a movie as I thought it was when I was thirteen. Yet I know – or at least I fully believe – that it is still good in its...

Tagged: al pacino

Monday Movie: The Godfather Part II, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #273: Dog Day Afternoon, by Alexander Miller

The Irishman: Dead House Painters, by David Bax

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #2: The Godfather, by Sarah Brinks

The Pirates of Somalia: Yo Ho, by David Bax

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #9: The Godfather: Part II, by Sarah Brinks

What the Hell Happened to Adam Sandler? by David Bax

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