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Bob Bloom

Bob Bloom

""When the legend becomes fact, print the legend" — The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Biography:
I was born in New York and am a 1970 graduate of Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, was a bachelor's degree in journalism. I have been working at various newspapers since 1970 and have been writing about the entertainment industry and doing movie reviews since 1977. I am currently the movie critic at the Journal & Courier in Lafayette, Ind.
Favorites:
All-time favorites: Field of Dreams, Singin' in the Rain, City Lights, Casablanca, Adventures of Robin Hood, The Masked Marvel, Adventures of Captain Marvel, 1776, The Maltese Falcon, The Matrix, Jason and the Argonauts and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
Publications:
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) , rec.arts.movies.reviews
Total Reviews:
1505
Total QuickRatings:
484
Location:
Lafayette, Ind.

Quick Ratings

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3/4 84% The Rookie (2002) — rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 22, 2013
2/5 80% Disraeli (Disraeli: The Noble Ladies of Scandal) (1929) " good in its day; too stagy and hammy for today's audiences and tastes" — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Dec 20, 2007
1/5 7% Amityville II: The Possession (1982) " Should have torn down the house after the first movie." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Dec 11, 2007
3/5 55% The River Wild (1994) " A buff Streep vs. bad guy Bacon on a wild river journey in which good acting overcomes several cliches." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Dec 11, 2007
3/5 89% Roxie Hart (2004) " The non-musical version of Chicago. It's fun and cynical." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Dec 11, 2007
2/5 60% Humoresque (1946) " pot-boiler with Crawford chewing up the scenery; Garfield does his best to retain his dignity." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Dec 11, 2007
3/5 67% Angel and the Badman (1947) " One of Wayne's top B efforts; an offbeat love story that works as a romance as well as a Western. Russell is luminous." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Nov 21, 2007
3/5 —— America (1924) " One of Griffith's last great films; a pageant about the American fight for freedom." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Nov 21, 2007
1/5 18% Judge Dredd (1995) " A bomb; I dread having to ever see this turkey again." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Nov 21, 2007
3/5 100% Damn the Defiant! (1962) " colorful period piece with another strong performance from Alec Guinness." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Nov 16, 2007
2/5 33% North to Alaska (1960) " An OK John Wayne up north comedy western. Not one of his better efforts, but it has its moments." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Oct 6, 2007
4/5 81% Coming Home (1978) " A wonderful movie with stellar performances; though Dern is a bit of a caricature." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Sep 6, 2007
3/5 56% Three Amigos! (1986) " An uneven comedy; Short is based, talking about movie insider stuff to the people in the village who have no idea what he is talking about." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Sep 6, 2007
3/5 62% Iron Will (1994) " A solid, old-fashioned adventure yarn; nothing special but decent entertainment." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Sep 1, 2007
4/5 92% The Boston Strangler (1968) " An excellent movie, Curtis' best role ever as the tortured Albert DeSalvo. the documentary-style suits the film perfectly. wonderfully underplayed and suspenseful from beginning to end." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Aug 8, 2007
2/5 71% Tarzan Escapes (1936) " begins the downward, juvenile trend of tarzan mgm movies." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jun 21, 2007
4/5 80% 61* (2001) " A great baseball movie solidly directed by Billy Crystal. You can tell he's a Yankee fan, but also does not hesitate from showing the warts on some of his idols." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Apr 12, 2007
3/5 80% Fiddler on the Roof (1971) " A lavish musical, too lavish for the subject matter, though." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Apr 12, 2007
2/5 —— The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) " a forced comedy that fails to show its two stars to their best advantage" — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Aug 18, 2006
3/5 88% Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) " A far-fetched but exciting political thriller" — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Aug 18, 2006
3/5 80% Death on the Nile (1978) " A fine Agatha Christie adaptation, made more watchable because of its all-star cast" — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Aug 18, 2006
3/5 —— Crash Dive (1943) " typical WWII drama, a rousing propaganda tool." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Aug 18, 2006
3/5 100% The Boys in the Band (1970) " a breakthrough film in the gay film genre; but dated by today's standards" — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Aug 18, 2006
3/5 95% Cape Fear (1962) " A tense thriller that holds your attention to the very end. The film is aided by one of Bernard Hermann's better scores." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jun 24, 2006
2/5 88% The Curse of the Cat People (1945) " One of the weakest movies from the Val Lawton unit. It's difficult to tell whether it's a horror film, a ghost story of just the imaginings of a sad, lonely, little girl." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jun 24, 2006
3/5 100% Flying Down to Rio (1933) " An OK musical that really sparkles when Fred and Ginger dance together for the first time." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jun 2, 2006
4/5 100% The Roaring Twenties (1939) " One of the last great gangster films of the 1930s. Cagney brings a touch of poignancy to the hood who time has passed by, and Gladys George is splendid as Panama." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jun 2, 2006
4/5 100% Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) " Busby Berkeley's imaginatively-staged numbers steal the show; fun to watch, even today." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Mar 17, 2006
4/5 86% Shall We Dance (1937) " One of the best Astaire-Rogers musicals with great music and dance." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Feb 23, 2006
3/5 88% Bedlam (1946) " A fine feature in the Val Lewton series for RKO is not so much a horror film, though it does contain one of Karloff's more deliciously sadistic performances." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Feb 6, 2006
3/5 95% In the Line of Fire (1993) " A wonderful cat-and-mouse thriller matching Eastwood against Malkovich's serpentine would-be assassin." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Feb 6, 2006
3/5 100% Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) " wonderful WWII propaganda drama with sincere performances by the cast. Special effects bombing sequence of Tokyo isn't bad either." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jan 28, 2006
2/5 37% The Great Gatsby (1974) " Too slow, too dull. Redford lacked the danger of Fitzgerald's creation." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jan 27, 2006
3/5 96% Limelight (1952) " Chaplin at his most melancholy. Not his best work, but the short time he and Keaton are on stage together is priceless." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jan 27, 2006
4/5 89% Planet of the Apes (1968) " Dated now, but a lot of fun and the ending was a shocker - the first time you saw it. Science fiction and social commentary blended nicely." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jan 27, 2006
5/5 92% The General (1927) " One of the greatest comedies ever produced. It is Keaton at his inventive best." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jan 27, 2006
4/5 100% Shield - Complete First Season (2002) " One of the best and most honest police dramas ever to reach TV. It's almost documentary-like, with great acting from Chiklis, Pounder and others." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Oct 4, 2005
4/5 80% Shogun (1980) " One of the finest miniseries ever produced. An exciting and literate adaptation of James Clavell's masive novel that rivets you from beginning to end." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Oct 4, 2005
3/5 68% Kiss of Death (1995) " An interesting noirlike crime drama propelled by Cage's eccentric performance" — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Apr 8, 2005
3/5 100% Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1926) " Hokey by today's standards, but one of the greatest silent film spectacles." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Apr 8, 2005
2/5 92% The Longest Day (1962) " The longest movie; the stunt of too many great actors in small roles wears thin. Saving Private Ryan did it better and in much less time." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Mar 25, 2005
3/5 88% The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) " An OK sequel with plenty of shocks and Cushing's wonderful, energetic performance as the brilliant, obsessed Dr. Frankenstein" — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Mar 25, 2005
5/5 100% Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954) " A masterpiece; a timeless classic; one of the greatest movies ever made." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Feb 11, 2005
4/5 81% Fahrenheit 451 (1966) " A keen adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel by Truffaut; eerie in its simplicity and matter-of-factness about book burning and Big Brotherism." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jan 28, 2005
4/5 100% Kings Row (1942) " A wonderful guilty pleasure potboiler enchanced by a magnificent Korngold score and fine acting from Ronald Reagan in the performance of his career. Only lead Robert Cummings is weak as Paris Mitchell; just imagine James Cagney in the role!" — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Jan 28, 2005
1/5 0% Loose Cannons (1990) " Not one of the best efforts from either Hackman or Aykroyd." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Nov 16, 2004
3/5 95% Night Shift (1982) " Keaton's first major role marked him for stardom; and also added to Howard's newly forming directorial stature." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Nov 16, 2004
4/5 100% The Four Feathers (1939) " One of the great adventure films of all times, with Clements doing his best stiff upper lip heroics to redeem himself in the eyes of his friends and the girl he loves. Richardson is wonderful and touching as the officer gone blind whose honor and compassi" — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Nov 4, 2004
3/5 38% The Five Heartbeats (1991) " An underrated drama about the ups and downs of a Temptations-like r&b group with solid acting and fine music. If you haven't seen it, rent it. It's worth it." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Oct 19, 2004
2/5 61% Summer School (1987) " Cliches abound in this silly outing. Not the brightest moment for any of those involved." — Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Posted Oct 19, 2004
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