Shorty’s Film Reviews

173 Films have been rated or reviewed by Shorty.

Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962): Corny as, but P T Barnum would be proud.
David Byrne's American Utopia (American Utopia) (2020): Impressive band.
Day at the Races, A (1937): Great routines. The 'All God's Chillun got Rhythm' sequence with Ivy Anderson is pretty cool too.
Marty Feldman, Best Of (1968-1969): Best sketch: The Bishop on the Train.
American Film Theatre - Rhinoceros (1974): Zero Mostel makes a stunning rhinoceros. That wall portrait of Nixon would today be replaced with one of Trump.
Into Great Silence (2005): An absorbing journey into a world far from the 21st century.
Shooting Party, The (1984): A society blindly stumbling into a 'Great War'. The film tells its story quietly. Nice dialogue.
Alexei Sayle's Stuff (TV Series) (1988): Marxist rantings from a fat Liverpudlian in a dazzling array of ill–fitting suits. Recommended.
Bete Humaine, La (1938): TBH, I found the exterior train shots more engrossing than the human melodrama.
House of Mirth (2001): Slow to get going but builds to a nicely desperate end.