Wednesday 28 April 2010

Brothers McMullen

A few years back the director of About Adam was proclaiming himself to be the Irish Woody Allen! Well The Brothers McMullen is closer to Allen's style than any other Irish-related film. There are lots of chat, egotistical characters, funny cuts in the middle of dialogue, and voiceovers. It's a very low-budget movie ($28,000) about three Irish-Americans who all use their full first names. They have women problems, don't seem to do much work, drink a lot, and walk everywhere. It's an interesting film in that most other male movie characters have little to say. Best scene was with the banana - so true. Strange that the director has made several other features but with little success?

Master of the world

Dated movie from the 1960s with Vincent Price trying to stop wars around the world. He uses an airship to attack from the sky. A group of ...