50 Films

Fifty Movies That Mattered to Me and Why

De: James J. Caterino

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Culture Musings and other Stuff, and over forty novels and short stories, returns with his second non-fiction book, this one focused on movies.Among the films covered in this entertaining, insightful book of essays, are classics such as E.T. (1982), and Enchanted (2007), vintage blockbusters like Total Recall (1990) and T2 (1991), cult movies such as Billy Jack (1971), Videodrome (1983), Dirty Dancing (1987), Wall Street (1987), True Romance (1993), and Exotica (1994), underrated gems such as The Fury (1978), Explorers (1985), The Age of Adeline (2015), 1941 (1979), Baby Boom (1987), and WW84 (2020), the recent masterworks Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Promising Young Woman (2020), and even the guilty pleasure exploitation films Cindy & Donna (1970), and Laserblast (1978).A must read for hardcore film buffs and casual movie fans alike, 50 Films is an addictive collection of fifty brand new, never before seen or published reviews by the author.

Good compilation of film reviews

I've been on a kick lately of reading film reviews by the masters Roger Ebert, Pauline Kael, Leonard Maltin, David Thomson, etc. and pop culture commentary, so this book of reviews caught my eye. I agreed with most of the writer's opinions, but even when I didn't I was impressed by his unabashed and engaged style of writing. He hooked me as a reader and it made me hunt down his other book of reviews. I listened to this as an audio book, so the only flaw is the choice of A.I. for the reader -- artificial intelligence has come a long way and at first I thought this was a human being doing the audio recording, but then the at-times-laughable mispronunciations made it clear that it was a machine. Overall, it didn't distract me too much since almost every audio book recording has some flaws, but I think a human reader would have served this book better.