23 Oct Review – Adopt A Sailor
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Adopt A Sailor Sailors file off of a naval ship. Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra singing “...
23 Oct Review – Submarine
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Submarine Submarine is the directorial debut of Richard Ayoade, who the geekier of readers will remember from “The IT Crowd” and “Darkplace.” It is an autobiographical coming-of-age set in Wales, and follows Oliver Tate as he learns about love and loss. Oliver...
01 Oct Review – Murder!
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Murder! Alfred Hitchcock’s Murder! is an example of all the pieces fitting together, but the completed puzzle is still a little lopsided. The film is about a young aspiring actress who is caught red-handed standing over the murdered body of her...
01 Oct Review – Rainbow Valley
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Rainbow Valley In college, I took this class that was, in part, about the evolution of the American West. In the class, we discussed the era of the cowboy and the bandit and how it was romantic, but clashed quite clamorously...
28 Sep Review – The Lady Vanishes
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Lady Vanishes And yet again, the film directed by Hitchcock is the best one I’ve seen in quite some time. The Lady Vanishes surpasses even the half dozen other early Hitchcock’s I’ve watched on FlixFling. This film was simply wonderful. ...
28 Sep Review – Sword Of Lancelot
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Sword Of Lancelot Sword of Lancelot is a retelling of the classic Arthurian story of Guinevere and Lancelot's torrid affair. Personally, I have always loved Arthurian stories -- the magic, the chivalry, the gratuitous violence. This particular version, however, I did...
18 Sep Review – Beat The Devil
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Beat the Devil When I read the description for Beat the Devil, I could hardly believe it. The film stars Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre and was directed by John Huston. The last time I saw these three names together, I...
18 Sep Review – Abbott & Costello’s Jack and the Beanstalk
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Abbott & Costello's Jack and the Beanstalk What an education in classic comedy I’m getting! Last week, I watched my first Laurel and Hardy and now onto Abbott and Costello! Jack and the Beanstalk is a retelling of the classic tale...
10 Sep Review – The Flying Deuces
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Flying Deuces After watching The Flying Deuces, I have dedeuced (heh, get it?) that Laurel and Hardy are similar to The Three Stooges; they are like anchovies – you either like them a lot or you don’t at all. I,...
10 Sep Review – The Skin Game
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Skin Game While The Skin Game sounds like a film that I shouldn’t admit to have watched in polite company, it is actually the exact opposite. The phrase “the skin game” refers to dirty antics that can take place during...
04 Sep Review – A Star Is Born
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews A Star Is Born When you think A Star is Born, you may think of the film starring Judy Garland, or the later Barbara Streisand movie. Indeed, Judy and Babs pop into my mind when I think about A Star is...
04 Sep Review – Blood And Black Lace
FlixFling contributor, Matthew Bussy reviews Blood and Black Lace It’s incredible, and somewhat uncomfortable when you think about it, how filmmakers can make human deaths look so beautiful on camera. Dario Argento’s horror classic Suspiria, for example, is utterly revolting but every time a character dies...
04 Sep Review – Black Sunday
FlixFling contributor, Matthew Bussy reviews Black Sunday Black Sunday (which is also known as The Mask of Satan) is one of the most visually gorgeous horror movies of all time (and it’s in black and white!). It has the vibe of a Tim Burton Gothic horror...
27 Aug Review – Them!
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews Them! Them! (and yes, it needs to always have an exclamation point when it’s being referenced) is a classic black and white B-movie about giant killer ants. When the giant, very fake-looking ants are onscreen the movie is entertaining. When they’re...
27 Aug Review – Creature From The Black Lagoon
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy review Creature From The Black Lagoon In the olden days Universal Studios was renowned for making monster movies. The Wolf Man, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera. The list goes on and on. The four I just mentioned are perhaps the...
27 Aug Review – Nosferatu
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Nosferatu Nosferatu is the original cinematic representation of a vampire. It is the tomb from which crawled Buffy, Angel, Twilight, and the Vampire Diaries, though it may be difficult to see the resemblance. Nosferatu is the 1922 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s...
27 Aug Review – The Adventures Of Ozzie and Harriet
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was a long-running TV show starring “America’s Favorite Family,” The Nelsons. From 1952 to 1966, The Nelsons, the archetypal American nuclear unit graced TV screens across the country. The...
17 Aug Review – His Private Secretary
FlixFling contributor, Jordana Lipsitz reviews His Private Secretary On one hand, I like old movies and John Wayne. On the other hand, His Private Secretary (1933) is a really bad movie. There was honestly very little appeal to it. The movie had pretty mediocre production quality...
17 Aug Review – House On Haunted Hill
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews House On Haunted Hill Take my word for it: House on Haunted Hill won’t scare you. It should certainly entertain you though, that is, if you’re a big fan of utterly campy, old black and white horror films. You might be...
17 Aug Review – Night Of The Living Dead
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews Night Of The Living Dead Night of the Living Dead is a classic for two reasons: it’s the first real zombie horror movie and the first successful low-budget horror movie. It cost $114,000 to make, featured unknown actors, and was filmed...
10 Aug Review – Ghost Adventures
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews Ghost Adventures Just to be clear, you can’t watch any episodes of the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures on FlixFling. Before the series debuted in 2008, the ghost hunters/stars of the paranormal show, Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, and Aaron Goodwin, made an...
10 Aug Review – His Name Was Jason: 30 Years Of Friday The 13th
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews His Name Was Jason: 30 Years Of Friday The 13th Jason Voorhees has had a pretty rough life. He’s appeared onscreen over twelve times. He’s been killed and then brought back to life in every way UNhumanly possible. He’s been sent...
10 Aug Review – My Favorite Brunette
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews My Favorite Brunette In the beginning of My Favorite Brunette, we find Bob Hope in an unlikely place – prison, awaiting execution on death row. Immediately, my interest was piqued. When reporters arrive to hear his story, Hope’s Ronnie Jackson tells...
10 Aug Review – Film Geek
FlixFling contributor, Jordana Lipsitz reviews Film Geek Film Geek (2005) was actually a pretty good watch. It is the story of Scotty Pelk, an incredibly dorky movie-obsessed young lad who makes people so uncomfortable he is fired from his job at a video store. He has...
06 Aug Review – American Graffiti
FlixFling contributor, Jordana Lipsitz reviews American Graffiti I have a problem with coming of age stories. More specifically, coming of age stories that involve the last night of high school and the crazy characters involved. Knowing that American Graffiti was the mother of all coming...
06 Aug Review – Number 17
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Number 17 My admiration for Alfred Hitchcock grows each time I see one of his early films. Made in the 1930s in England, they all seem to have small budgets and very limited equipment lists. And yet, because of his direction,...
03 Aug Review – The Philadelphia Story
FlixFling contributor, Yohsuke Araki reviews The Philadelphia Story "You, all of you, with your sophisticated ideas!" "(sarcastically)…ain't it awful?" George Cukor's The Philadelphia Story is chalk full of philosophical phenomena surrounding the virtues of relationships on both the personal level and of the societal spectrum. Surrounding these themes of the...
03 Aug Review – I Spit On Your Grave
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews I Spit On Your Grave I Spit on Your Grave just wants to be hated. It’s like The Human Centipede. Who wants to watch three people cry and scream for a whole movie because they’ve just been sewn anus to mouth?...
03 Aug Review – Grace
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews Grace Grace is a movie that made me feel so proud to be a man and not have to worry about breast-feeding. Just wait till you hear its story. Madeline (Jordan Ladd) is boringly married to Michael (Stephen Park). The two...
30 Jul Review – Nothing Sacred
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Nothing Sacred After being exposed as a fraud, New York reporter Wallace Cook is on the hunt for a gripping story to put him back on top. He thinks he finds it in Hazel Flagg, a Vermont woman dying of radium...
30 Jul Review – The Little Princess
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Little Princess Other than The Bachelor and the Bobby-soxer, this was only second Shirley Temple movie I’ve seen. Despite my lack of due diligence, I classify The Little Princess as a must-see. It is about Sara Crewe, a pampered but...
30 Jul Review – Li’l Abner
FlixFling contributor, Jordana Lipsitz reviews Li'l Abner I’m going to come out and say it. The best part of Li’l Abner was the theme song. I was not incredibly into the whole podunk thing that was going on with the movie for the most part. However,...
30 Jul Review – Charade
FlixFling contributor, Jordana Lipsitz reviews Charade Audrey Hepburn was a classy lady of the highest caliber. However, in Charade she also managed to be funny. Though this is a review of Charade, it may turn into a love letter to Audrey Hepburn. I can’t help it....
27 Jul Review – Dead Alive
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews Dead Alive Before Peter Jackson made big Hollywood epics The Lord of the Rings and King Kong, he made cult classics. Dead Alive, Heavenly Creatures, and The Frighteners were his first movies, and combined they didn’t make more than one billion...
26 Jul Review – Punk In England
FlixFling contributor, Yohsuke Araki reviews Punk In England Punk In England doesn't explain much but instead harps on the visceral experience of the live shows rather than feeding us information about the scene. We go through the classic punks to the progressive styles of new-mod and...
26 Jul Review – Alice Sweet Alice
FlixFling contributor, Yohsuke Araki reviews Alice Sweet Alice Alice Sweet Alice works like any other 3 act structured film, but I like to think of it in two parts. The first half feels much like a typical slasher film. There's that b-movie slasher quirkiness around it,...
23 Jul Review – His Girl Friday
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews His Girl Friday In His Girl Friday, Cary Grant stars as Walter Burns, an ardent newspaperman who is fighting and scheming to get his lead reporter to stay with the paper. Of course, his motivation is not strictly professional, since his...
20 Jul Review – 1st Bite
FlixFling contributor, Jordana Lipsitz reviews 1st Bite When I saw the title, First Bite, I immediately thought the film was a vampire movie. I soon realized it was not, but was not entirely sure what I was looking at. I’m not sure I ever really did...
20 Jul Review – Hatchet
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews Hatchet Before I talk about Hatchet let me talk about the Final Destination film series. The reason there have been five movies is because audiences get a kick out of watching people die in creative ways. Death by burning to death...
20 Jul Review – Apollo 18
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews Apollo 18 In the late 60s NASA cancelled the Apollo 18 mission to land on the Moon. Was it because they found out that there were evil aliens living on the planet? I doubt it. I’m pretty sure it was cancelled...
16 Jul Review – Born to Win
FlixFling contributor, Yohsuke Araki reviews Born to Win Ivan Passer, a Czech native director, makes an arrestingly free and honest film in Born To Win. It's a junkie film that plays by all the normal rules of it's genre but because this film was made in...
16 Jul Review – Brian Eno-The Man Who Fell to Earth
FlixFling contributor, Yohsuke Araki reviews Brian Eno-The Man Who Fell to Earth Brian Eno's story is truly remarkable. Within the music world he is a singularity who's journey began with one of the most seminal rock bands of his era, Roxy Music, only to leave and...
13 Jul Review – Royal Wedding
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Royal Wedding Royal Wedding was a delightful surprise. In it, Fred Astaire and Jane Powell play Tom and Ellen Bowen, a brother and sister dancing duo who sell out shows across the country. After their show in New York ends, the...
13 Jul Review – Sabotage
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Sabotage Another early Hitchcock film, Sabotage is about, well...
13 Jul Review – Phantasm
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews Phantasm Phantasm (1979) has a few creepy shots and a scary villain, but it’s nowhere near as memorable as some other old horror classics. Every Halloween season the Bravo channel has a special called 100 Scariest Movie Moments, which first aired...
13 Jul Review – The Evil Dead
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews The Evil Dead The Evil Dead (1981) is on crack. There’s a scene in this movie where a young woman is raped by trees that come alive. Trees?! TREES?! This is a horror movie that was banned in many countries when...
13 Jul Review – One Week
FlixFling contributor, Jordana Lipsitz reviews One Week Many people argue that comedy is not a real art form and it does not take the mind of a great artist to write in a comedic sense. Buster Keaton’s work consistently proves that this is simply not true. ...
13 Jul Review – Assault of the Party Nerds
FlixFling Contributor, Jordana Lipsitz reviews Assault of the Party Nerds When it came to choosing my next movie to review, it was almost love at first sight. I saw Assault of the Party Nerds (1989) as a title on the list of movies and my mind...
09 Jul Review – The Pajama Game
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Pajama Game The Pajama Game takes us into the whimsical and musical world of PJ manufacturing at the Sleeptite Pajama Factory. The film, starring Doris Day and John Raitt, starts as many Doris Day films do -- as a battle of...
09 Jul Review – Ace High
FlixFling Contributor, Yohsuke Araki reviews Ace High The second of the Cat Stevens/Hutch Bessy trilogy, Colizzi's Ace High is an exciting and fun ride. Like a Leone spaghetti western, this one by Colizzi works in a wonderfully crafted and lit cinematography. It compliments the typical cool...
09 Jul Review – Cul-De-Sac
FlixFling contributor, Yohsuke Araki reviews Cul-De-Sac Consisting of quality visuals and a thoughtful pace along with quirky complexities of dysfunctional relationships, Roman Polanski's Cul-De-Sac manages to serve as a bridge between two very different filmic worlds without compromising any amount of cinematic quality from itself. ...
06 Jul Review – Halloween
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews Halloween I think if you were born in the 21st century and you watch John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) then you’ll think it’s stupid and unoriginal. You’ll only think it’s stupid, however, because you weren’t aware that it’s considered to be the...
06 Jul Review – An American Werewolf In London
FlixFling contributor, Matt Bussy reviews An American Werewolf In London John Landis’s An American Werewolf in London (1981) is a strange, strange horror movie. I’m always entertained by it and I think anybody looking for a gory werewolf movie will be too, but I’ve always felt...
06 Jul Review – His Girl Friday
FlixFling contributor, Jordana Lipsitz reviews His Girl Friday His Girl Friday (1940) is one of those movies that make me wish I had been born in the 30s and been able to watch all those sort of screwball comedies with fast-paced talking, beautiful (but not too...
06 Jul Review – Hebrew Hammer
FlixFling contributor, Jordana Lipsitz reviews Hebrew Hammer Stereotype jokes have always been one of the things on my top ten list along with a good foot rub and long walks on the beach. Luckily for me, The Hebrew Hammer, a 2003 Jewish Blaxploitation film was chock...
06 Jul Review – The Man Who Knew Too Much
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Man Who Knew Too Much In 1934, Alfred Hitchcock made The Man Who Knew Too Much. In 1956, he remade it, though I have no idea why, as the original is thoroughly captivating. The film begins at Winter Olympic-type games...
07 Jun The Skin Game
Click here to watch The Skin Game now Read a Review of this Film Based on a successful play by John Galsworthy, and adapted by Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville, this dramatic study of the British class system stars Edmund Gwenn as Mr. Hornblower, a Scotsman...
07 Jun The Flying Deuces
Click here to watch The Flying Deuces now Read a Review of this Film In this Laurel and Hardy comedy classic, Ollie falls in love with Georgette, an innkeeper's daughter, only to discover that she is already married to handsome and dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois. Heartbroken,...
07 Jun The Little Princess
Click here to watch The Little Princess now Read a Review of this Film Based on Frances Hodson Burnett's popular children's book and stage play, this lavish Victorian drama features Shirley Temple in her first Technicolor film. The irresistibly charming Temple stars as Sara Crewe, a wealthy...
05 Jun Punk In England
Click here to watch Punk In England now Read a Review This brand new remastered and extended edition DVD includes live performances and interviews with The Jam, Ian Dury, The Adverts, Madness, The Clash, Secret Affair, The Specials and many more...
03 Jun Li’l Abner
Click here to watch Li'l Abner now Read a Review of this Film A comedy musical based on the comic strip characters created by Al Capp. When residents of Dogpatch, USA are notified by the government that they must evacuate, they try to persuade the government that...
01 Jun His Private Secretary
Click here to watch His Private Secretary now Read a Review of this Film Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on his company's business...
20 Feb A Note on Ratings & Feedback
At FlixFling, we value the feedback we get from our users and that's why we give you many ways to tell us what you think. Here's some of the many ways you can let us know how we're doing: Right here, on our Blog. We read...
16 Aug Little Rascals Shorts Collection
Click here to watch Little Rascals Shorts Collection now Click here to Read a Review Our Gang Follies of 1938 – The gang is putting on a show with Alfalfa billed as “King of the Crooners.” But Alfalfa abandons the show saying his crooning days are over,...
04 Aug Beat The Devil
Click here to watch Beat The Devil Now Read a Review of this Film In this sly satire on British imperialist pretensions, Billy Dannreuther receives a confidential tip regarding uranium mines in Kenya. He devises a scheme to buy up the land as cheaply as possible, but...
03 Aug A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born Read a Review of this Film Esther Blodgett is a farm girl who leaves her small-town life with dreams of becoming a successful Hollywood movie star. She soon discovers that achieving stardom is more difficult than she had ever dreamed. Unable to find...