Movie Reviews of New Releases and Classic Films by Brian Welk
Marilyn Monroe was an impossibly difficult actress to work with because she seemed so incompetent and insecure at every turn. But when she got it right, she made magic happen.
“My Week With Marilyn” makes a point of this numerous times. It adores the blonde bombshell so much that it drills her greatness into your head. And yet, Michelle Williams is so effervescent and captivating by rejuvenating Monroe’s presence that she makes lightning strike twice. Continue reading “My Week With Marilyn”
John Huston’s “The Asphalt Jungle” is not as tightly wound of a thriller as say, “Dial M for Murder” or countless other Hitchcock classics, but it revels in its characters and its story to make a gripping noir.
It follows a group of burglars attempting the perfect robbery, one that will score a payoff of $1 million. But everything slowly goes wrong, as it must in a noir. No character trusts one another and no one can be trusted, so everything is destined to fall apart. The interesting part is in discovering how. Continue reading “Rapid Response: The Asphalt Jungle”