On my last Epic Film Quest review, I said I really, desperately needed a home-run film to come up soon. Well fuck me sideways, Sydney Pollack’s 1985 Romance Drama Out of Africa was not what I was looking for. It took a lot out of me, kids. A lot. But it did have some cool…
So I just got back from dying-from-cancer-land with the last movie, and now I’m off to my-brother-died-and-now-I-hate-myself-and-also-want-to-die-ville. Damn, man. These Oscar films are tough. Does every single one have to be such a downer? Even The Sound of Music had to insert an escape from Nazis at the end. Can’t we all just tra-la-la to…
Boom. I don’t know why 25 is lucky. I think I mostly made that up. But 25 seems like such a great landmark in my quest! 25 of 82. With last night’s viewing of The Sting (Best Picture, 1973), I’m chuggin’ right along here! Last night I had two co-pilots on this magic carpet ride…