Weekly Movie Roundup

Young Dr. Kildare Gloria Count Dracula Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
  • There’s nothing about Young Dr. Kildare that isn’t more than a little dated, but it’s also pleasantly entertaining.
    • Gena Rowlands is very good in Gloria, but I am inclined to agree with Roger Ebert, who wrote, “Rowlands propels the action with such appealing nervous energy that we don’t have the heart to stop and think how silly everything is.”
      • 1970’s Count Dracula is fun enough, especially when watched with a group, what with a mustachioed grand vampire. And it’s often faithful to the original book. But it does lack the gothic atmosphere and bloody heart of something like the Hammer Dracula films.
        • Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx is a lot of fun.

        I also re-watched David Lynch’s The Straight Story, which is as simple and effecting as I remember it.

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