In 1978’s American war drama The Deer Hunter, three friends portrayed by Bobby DeNiro (we’re tight), Christopher Walken, and John Savage enter the Vietnam War as cheerful, vivacious jokesters only to return damaged and half-full. (So basically, it’s like almost every single war movie ever made.) But what Michael Cimino’s film really offers here is some dynamite…
If a friend or reader was going to try to follow my footsteps in the trek to watch every single Best Picture winner in the history of forever, I would probably advise that they sell their TV, slap themselves in the face, and run away from home. Regardless, this blogger is trudging forward and probably…
The latest stop on my quest to watch every single Best Picture winner involved some Kevin Costner butt. A LOT of Kevin Costner butt, actually. In Dances with Wolves (directed by The Bodyguard, himself), Costner plays Union Army lieutenant John J. Dunbar who travels to the American frontier to find a military post after narrowly…
The 1954 Best Picture winner was the crime drama On the Waterfront starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (12 Angry Men), and Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night). And damn did Brando bring out his major Brando-ness. I mean, Holy Brando! The dude can just stand there being all Brando-y…
I feel it may be sacrilegious to admit that I didn’t care for West Side Story, but, uh, I didn’t. Like God might smite me or something. My mom loves the film though. Maybe I should’ve made her write this blog. (If only she knew what a blog was…) The dancing and choreography were top…
Previously on The Littlest Winslow… I’m watching every single one of The Academy’s Best Picture winners. It’s harder than you’d think. Or maybe it’s exactly as hard as you’d think. Dear Diary Blog. It’s been a long time since my last Epic Film Quest post. Almost two months to be exact. Here are the things…
I fully realize that my last post was a review of a mid-80’s Italian Horror flick about a demon epidemic that takes over a small movie theater and later THE WORLD, so perhaps it’s super strange that I jump back and forth between black-and-white Best Pictures from the 1940’s and…well, that. But I’m going to…
The Best Picture winner of 1963 was this British Adventure Comedy set in the 1700s called Tom Jones. It follows the life of the title character, a bastard in both the literal and slang sense. He’s a rambunctious little bugger who runs around getting laid, causing a raucous, and embarrassing his foster-father, Squire Allworthy. Tom…
The 1930’s are slowly killing me inside. This week’s undertaking brought me straight to 1938 – Frank Capra’s You Can’t Take It With You starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Larry Barrymore. Alice (Arthur), the only “normal” member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby (Stewart). His wealthy banker father and…
Truth: The last post about my watch-every-Best-Picture-winner-before-I-die film quest was in April, when I watched Clint Eastwood be a snarky rascal in Unforgiven. Shame, shame on me. The blog here was alive and active, but my Best Picture watching skillz had taken a serious backseat. That’s an understatement even. It’s just that sometimes, it’s super…