Review-O-Sphere

Opening Credits~Georges Delerue - A Man for All Seasons           The closing years of the Golden Age of Hollywood in the mid-1960s had a lot of genres that came, went and would never return again. We’ve discussed the epic comedies and the sex-fueled spy adventures but one of the most comparatively forgotten genres were the medieval drama. You might be inclined to think these fall under the “epic” banner akin to the Roman/Biblical epics (e.g. Cleopatra (1963)) but these were actually a bit smaller-scale than those. These are movies that adapted the politics of medieval Europe (or, let’s be honest here, medieval England), using them as a window to examine aspects of human nature since, back then, family drama and geopolitics were usually the exact same thing.           These movies can be a very acquired taste and seem to have run the gamut in how well-received they were at the time. Unlike the Biblical and Roman epics, which we...

To see part 1, click here .   Batman Suite~Nelson Riddle - Batman: The Movie             The 39th Academy Awards ceremony is notable on a few accounts. The first two trivia facts are that this ceremony was actually in serious danger of being cancelled due to a strike by the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, which wasn’t (tragically) resolved until less than a half-hour before the show was scheduled to go on air. The level of stress in that control room must’ve been insane to have been a part of.           The other is that this was the first time that a Governor of California attended the ceremony though this record sounds less impressive when you remember that the recently-elected Governor of California was an actor who was part of the Academy and Hollywood establishment. There could be a case made that the political reason why A Man for All Seasons won the Academy Award for Best Picture was as an...