Shorty’s Film Reviews

198 Films have been rated or reviewed by Shorty.

Hamlet (2009): David Tennant is electric as Hamlet. Interesting use of CCTV technology.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1991): A script so witty it made my brain hurt. It's as if Shakespeare had not only written HAMLET but also WAITING FOR GODOT into the bargain.
Local Hero (1983): An air of transatlantic eccentricity rules. Lovely stuff.; DVD ~~$20~~ $15
Mark Twain (2002): Up to the expected Ken Burns' standard. Marvelous use of archival photographs and Twain's words.
Tehran Taxi (2015): Very funny, and then comes the so–called "sordid realism]" of the final scene.
Offside (2006): Cocks a snook at what Iranian women (and men) have to put up with from 'the Regime'.
Rio Bravo (1959): And there's singin' too.
Gallipoli: The Frontline Experience (2005): Clear–eyed account of events. Loads of original footage, plus impressive re–enactment sequences.
To Have and Have Not (1944): Hoagy is Highlight of Howard Hawks' Hollywood Hokum.
Why We Fight (2005): An outstanding assemblage of stories and images to answer the question. "I guarantee when war becomes that profitable you're gonna see more war". Meanwhile, in Ukraine another business opportunity opens up . . .