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Gerald Peary

Film Review: Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place, Impeachment Edition — Stir-Crazy 14

Celebrate impeachment in your home with this critic’s fourteenth list of movies guaranteed to entertain.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: North Dallas Forty, Run Lola Run, The Trip, Why Shoot the Teacher, Wild Style

Film Review: Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place, Waiting-for-the-Vaccine Edition — Stir-Crazy 13

Some great old films to watch while you count the days for your anti-COVID injection!

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Arsenic and Old Lace, Criss Cross, Gerald Peary, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Walkabout, Wings of Hope

Film Review: Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place, Thanksgiving Edition — Stir-Crazy 12

Please don’t get on a plane for Thanksgiving. Avoid Covid by eating your turkey dinner before your computer screen, and watching — all free! — these handpicked classic movie entertainments.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alfred-Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Life in the Afternoon, Lifeboat, The Masque of the Red Death, The More the Merrier, The Seventh Bullet

Film Review: “I Am Greta” — A Superb Love Song to a Teenager Fighting to Save the Planet

As Greta Thunberg travels the world, invited to speak to government bodies everywhere, she doesn’t every mince her words or try to build bridges. “You have messed up the environment!” is her shrill, righteous message.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Climate Change, Greta Thunberg, I Am Greta, Nathan Grossman

Film Review: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place? You Demanded Them — Stir-Crazy 11

Covid-19 goes on and on. Hang tight at home, where you can relax and watch old movies. Here’s an 11th list of disparate favorites that can easily be viewed on your computer.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: F.W. Murnau, Jennifer Dworkin, Knute Rockne-All-American, Lou Ye, Love and Diane, Suzhou River, Tabu, Where the River Flows North

Film Review: “Martin Eden” — Portrait of an Artist as a Young Egotist

In his mostly successful filmic adaptation of Martin Eden, Italian director Pietro Marcello transposes with ease London’s Oakland novel to the seaport of Naples.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Jack London, Luca Marinelli, Martin Eden, Pietro Di Rauso, Pietro Marcello

Film Review: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place? Yep, It’s Stir-Crazy 10

Covid-19 goes on, and, in public, our masked lives. At home, we can relax watching old movies. Here’s a 10th list of disparate favorites you can view on your computer.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A Handful of Dust, Bird of Paradise, Mala Noche, Mandingo, White White Storks

Film Review: “Save Yourselves!” — A Very Likable Sci-Fi Screwball Comedy

I am a champion of “C” movie effects, the cheaper and clunkier the better. So huzzahs for Save Yourselves! and its tacky monsters from another planet.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Save Yourselves!, science-fiction

Film Review: Yet More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — It’s Stir-Crazy 9

Five more feature films of great interest and their links, lovingly chosen to get you through the continuing travails of the coronavirus.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Back to the Promised Land, Beat the Devil, Elephant, Go Fish, Gus Van Sant, Tears of the Black Tiger, Wisit Sasantieng

Film Feature: Walking through Director John Ford’s Childhood Home — in Portland, ME

“Did you know that film director John Ford lived in your apartment when a boy?”

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: John Ford

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