Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
You can watch the top 10 films of the latest Sight & Sound Top 100 Poll: The Best Films of All Time projected in 4K at the Bill Cosford Cinema on the University of Miami campus.
Glendon Wasey is a sleazy, down-on-his-luck con man struggling to sell glow-in-the-dark neckties in Shanghai. When he encounters the lovely Gloria Tatlock, a missionary nurse who wants to obtain a supply of opium to ease the suffering of her patients, he decides to help her get hold of a stolen supply of the valuable drug.
Miami Herald writer Bill Cosford, however, commented that "whatever Scorsese and Price have to say about these marvelous characters, it is not anything interesting". [24] Tom Hutchingson of Radio Times said that Newman "deserved" to win an Oscar for his performance. [25] Reviewers compared The Color of Money with other Scorsese films.
[6] [7] Bill Cosford of The Miami Herald wrote, "Better Off Dead has the body of a tired teen comedy but the soul of an inspired student film; it's the first movie in a long time to interrupt itself periodically with flights of animated fancy." [8]
[7] Bill Cosford from The Arizona Republic called it "a badly made film, as awkward as can be, and long stretches of it make no sense whatsoever. Nor does it manage, as the better slasher films do, to re-create a high-school milieu of even passing authenticity."
Several critics felt the film was a major misstep for actress Linda Blair, including The Miami Herald ' s Bill Cosford, who wrote that "Blair has taken us deeper and deeper into the shadow world of bad film. Blair movies are the cinema equivalent of the life of Hobbes' natural man: Nasty, brutish and short."
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
[38] Bill Cosford, in his 1984 Miami Herald review, had foreseen the dialogue's popularity: "I suspect that Buckaroo's odd musings, particularly the one about being there no matter where you go, are about to enter the popular argot on the scale of "Where's the beef?"; [25] his prediction has been proved right.