Tag: Marlon Brando

My Favorite Movies: The Godfather (1972)

My Favorite Movies: The Godfather (1972)

Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo’s masterpiece is, like me, now a half a century old and its hermetically-sealed world of mobster values feels even more disturbingly inviting. We are invited into a private world of skewed morals in which mob families – the five New York mob families – position themselves and their power […]

| September 24, 2024
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My Favorite Movies: Superman (1978)

My Favorite Movies: Superman (1978)

I was privileged to have been a child in the late 70s for a lot of reasons, but for one I remember a time when superhero movies were rare, almost non-existent. But through a miracle of good timing, Richard Donner’s original SUPERMAN was not the washed-out kiddie matinee nonsense that had been the cinematic journey […]

| September 24, 2024
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