Word: wonderful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Littlechap spends the entire play asking for love and approval he doesn't deserve. The audience is supposed to feel sorry for him at the end, when he realizes that he can only love himself. But when he bursts into "What Kind of Fool Am I?" it's a wonder they don't stand up and tell...
...season he flies to Miami and from there travels by bus to New England, where he can make up to $50 a day picking apples. Wilbert Hutchinson, 28, a truck farmer back home, says he comes to New England "just to have a nice time. I like to watch Wonder Woman." And for Clinton Duncan, 38, who has a wife and seven children home in Kingston, "It's just good to leave your country every now and then...
...novelist's torments. Brittain rattles off Lowry's formative emotional traumas?his strained relationship with his parents, his early brushes with homosexuality, his bizarre first marriage?without ever relating them to the rest of his biography. Certainly Lowry devotees will find these psychological clues reward enough, but others may wonder why they should spend 100 minutes watching a film that never uses its esoteric subject to make a larger point. Volcano is a movie to see ?but only after reading the book...
What lifts this film into orbit?and what saves it from being a shaggy flying-saucer story?is the breathless wonder that the director brings to every frame. Whether he is showing us a pristine, starry Midwestern sky or displaying Special Effects Wizard Douglas Trumbull's formidable arsenal of spaceships and celestial storms, Spielberg seems to be looking at everything onscreen as if for the first time. The freshness of his vision is contagious?and exhilarating. While most thrillers, including Jaws, manipulate the audience mechanically, Close Encounters makes it a partner in the film maker's quest for excitement...
Rocky. This film marked the emergence of Sylvester Stallone as a bona fide celebrity in the movie industry, and watching his Rocky Balboa give his best shot at the heavyweight crown makes you wonder if it may also mark his equally sudden return to bona fide oblivion. Stallone is perfectly suited to the title role, but therein lies a double edged sword; try to picture Stallone in anything other than boxer's shorts, and you get the message. But Stallone did capture America's heart for one fleeting moment in motion picture history, and no subsequent bomb can ever take...