Comments on Paul Harris Online: Movies You Might Not Know

Idiocracy - A humorous glimpse of a possible futur...

2008-03-06T08:21:00.000-06:00

Idiocracy - A humorous glimpse of a possible future.

Children of a Lesser God...awesome if you want rea...

2008-01-06T17:25:00.000-06:00

Children of a Lesser God...awesome if you want real life and love.

Jersey Girl is a winner for an adult trying to rai...

2008-01-06T17:22:00.000-06:00

Jersey Girl is a winner for an adult trying to raise a child alone.

Hadn't heard of "The Lookout" until I read about i...

2007-10-16T17:09:00.000-05:00

Hadn't heard of "The Lookout" until I read about it on this list. Rented it from Netflix and was pleasantly surprised. What a wonderful film and not a minute too long.

"My Dog Skip" is a great movie with Frankie Muniz,...

2007-09-20T14:31:00.000-05:00

"My Dog Skip" is a great movie with Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Kevin Bacon - about a boy and his dog growing up in WW II era Mississipi. A great story for the whole family with Moose (Eddie from Frasier) as Skip. Highly recommended

Defending Your Life with Albert Brooks

2007-09-09T19:05:00.000-05:00

Defending Your Life with Albert Brooks

I would suggest Kelly's Heroes. It has everything...

2007-09-07T22:17:00.000-05:00

I would suggest Kelly's Heroes. It has everything a great film should have: stars, action, plot, humor, scenery, great tag lines.

Four to consider: Keeping Mum (2005), Wag the Dog ...

2007-09-04T23:20:00.000-05:00

Four to consider: Keeping Mum (2005), Wag the Dog (1997), Donovan's Reef (1963), &
Zwartboek (aka Black Book, 2006).
The last is a good WWII picture, but definitely not for kids.

Have you ever seen,"When You Coming Home Red Rider...

2007-09-02T21:26:00.000-05:00

Have you ever seen,"When You Coming Home Red Rider?"

or

"The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea"
Kris Kristofferson

I see that you just added The War Room.For another...

2007-08-21T00:15:00.000-05:00

I see that you just added The War Room.For another good old political film, check out Advise and Consent from 1962. It's essentially a dramatization of a nomination fight, basically between wings of the Democratic Party. (Gore Vidal's "The Best Man", also with Henry Fonda, is also a good one in this genre.)

But I see that you've already got the terrific old Andy Griffith film A Face in the Crowd. For another really great and unexpected performance, run, don't walk to Netflix, and see William Shatner (!) in The Intruder. It's an old Roger Corman picture starring Shatner as a racist agitator fighting school integration. (Essentially Elmer Gantry as a Klansman.) It's seriously a great acting performance by Shatner - the best work, by far, that I've ever seen him do.

I was moved to put this in my Netflix queue after seeing Henry Rollins interview Shatner on Rollins's IFC show. This was the only Roger Corman film that lost money at the box office. The film was shot on location in various little towns in southeast Missouri (in and around Sikeston, mostly). Evidently, they used locals in a lot of the scenes. You know they're not great actors, so it's interesting to hear how easily a certain epithet floats out of their mouths...

It's actually a very interesting little film. Seriously, you should ask Shatner about it if you ever get to interview him on KMOX, Paul.

Watch The Intruder and you'll be stunned, I promise you.

Did you ever see "Diary of a Mad Housewife"? You ...

2007-06-07T21:01:00.000-05:00

Did you ever see "Diary of a Mad Housewife"? You can just love to hate Richard Benjamin in this off-beat movie.

You've got some great movies here. Wanna get reall...

2007-06-07T10:09:00.000-05:00

You've got some great movies here. Wanna get really creeped out by an old movie? Leave Her to Heaven, with Gene Tierney. And No. 2 recommendation is the old Shadow of a Doubt, with Theresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. They don't make them like that anymore.

Bliss Not the '90s Hollywood romance fluff; the '...

2007-06-07T09:45:00.000-05:00

Bliss
Not the '90s Hollywood romance fluff; the '80s Australian movie of the year. Usually on the Comedy shelf, occasionally Drama or Foreign. Along with Eraserhead and Citizen Kane, one of the three bestest ever. Mindblowing. And hilarious.

My 20th Century
Foreign shelf, occasionally Comedy or Drama. Much social satire.

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Drama or Comedy. After seeing this movie, I now have a hero. And it has the the world's most beautiful painting. Honest.

My Life as a Dog
Foreign shelf, sometimes Drama. (NOT "A Boy and His Dog"!) I've seen subtitled and dubbed versions. Funny, heartwarming, and women like it.

Check out Fandango. Early Kevin Cosner...

2006-10-11T11:54:00.000-05:00

Check out Fandango. Early Kevin Cosner...

I would suggest "Billy Elliot" and "A History of V...

2006-06-20T23:31:00.000-05:00

I would suggest "Billy Elliot" and "A History of Violence". Both are superior films and are as good as any on this list.

My first movie ever was Jack the Giant Killer, 196...

2006-03-02T15:21:00.000-06:00

My first movie ever was Jack the Giant Killer, 1962

The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help him he has his dreadful witches in his castle and his almost unstoppable sorcery. A giant under his control abducts the princess, but on the way home with her the giant meets farming lad Jack who slays him. This is only the beginning. Be assured Pendragon and his evil magic are far from done.

"The Earth, The Flesh and the Devil" is another mo...

2006-01-07T22:41:00.000-06:00

"The Earth, The Flesh and the Devil" is another movie that should be on the list. It only has three actors in the entire movie, I believe they are Harry Belafonte, Inga Stevens and William Holden. It is a S.F about the end of the world and how one man copes with it.

I'm amazed my favorite movie isn't on here...Galli...

2006-01-02T21:50:00.000-06:00

I'm amazed my favorite movie isn't on here...

Gallipoli

(Don't let the fact that a young Mel Gibson is in it sway you!)

older great love story is "somewhere in Time "

2005-06-08T20:01:00.000-05:00

older great love story is "somewhere in Time "

Another wonderful movie is The Star Chamber

2005-06-03T16:47:00.000-05:00

Another wonderful movie is The Star Chamber