Unsung!: Jan

Warning! This one is a gonna get gooshy.

Unsung!: Heaven's Gate

This column will be super long and way over budget. The critics will be unforgiving.

Unsung!: True Stories

This here’s a song about people like us…

Unsung!: Shattered Glass

In the words of Seinfeld’s George Costanza, “It’s not a lie if YOU believe it’s the truth.”

Unsung!: The Twelve Chairs

It somehow stands to reason that one of my favorite Mel Brooks films would be the one that not many people have ever heard of or seen.

Unsung!: Help!

The Beatles’ second film makes its Blu-ray debut today, and that brings with it some good news and some bad news…

Unsung!: Quiz Show

I was bemoaning the lack of a moral center in this weekend’s disappointing Man of Steel; here is a movie that is 100% moral center.

Unsung!: At Long Last Love

This Peter Bogdanovich film has only sporadically been shown on television. It has NEVER been released on any tape or disc format. Boy, is it ever unsung! And Burt Reynolds sings!

Unsung!: The Magic Christian

Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr in a movie TOGETHER? This I GOTTA see!

Unsung!: Wonder Boys

“I used to care, but things have changed.”
--from the Bob Dylan song

Unsung!: The Hidden

Today we look at yet another film I first saw in my wasted youth and then did not see again for twenty years or MORE… so, does it hold up?  Is it trash… or treasure?

Unsung!: Not Fade Away

Remember David Chase? The Sopranos' David Chase? What’s he been up to lately?

Unsung!: Sorcerer

Thirty-seven years ago I saw William Friedkin’s Sorcerer and it knocked my little socks off. I thought it was one of the best films I had ever seen. Critical opinion at the time held that Sorcerer was a stinkeroo. Then the film disappeared. Last Sunday I had a chance to see Sorcerer again. Who would prove right in their original critical judgment: most of the world’s film critics or the fourteen-year-old me?

Fasten your seat belts, dear readers, Sorcerer DEFINES “unsung!”

Unsung!: Rescue Dawn

For the longest time, I thought I was the only person on the planet who ever saw this film. Recently, I determined that I am SURE I am the only person on the planet who has ever seen this film. Well, me and Werner Herzog.

Unsung!: The Front

Some critics think this film trivializes the blacklist era….

I beg to differ.

Unsung!: Gilda Live!

This movie and I go way back.

Unsung!: The Miracle of Marcelino

Hundreds of thousands of parochial school kids who saw this film in school or Sunday school over the last fifty years were inspired by it.

My take is a little different. I am going to hell.

Unsung!: Penn and Teller Get Killed

This past weekend I saw two movies about magic. One of them, the subject of this column, WAS magic. The other one was the mediocre The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.

Unsung!: Brewster McCloud

Shouldn’t today’s filmmakers be allowed to fail on this epic a scale?

Unsung!: Slaughterhouse-Five

For the longest time I could not figure out why this film did not get more attention in 1972. Then, I did some searching…