We here at Filmically Perfect believe that Orson Welles' worst film is better than some directors best film! There is no doubt in our...

There are few directors as good as getting under the skin of a character than John Huston. In this film, Huston pulls an astounding...

For those of you who thought "Finally! FP is doing a Alec Baldwin movie!" SHAME ON YOU! This is the one and only original film, directed...

James Cagney proves that he still has what it takes in this film, one of his last for Warner Bros. Playing the psychotic mama's boy Cody...

Michael Curtiz proves there’s no genre he can’t handle with this music filled fictional biography of tightly wound jazz trumpeter. Kirk...

Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly created pure celluloid gold with this musical tale of the upheaval of hollywood with the Coming of SOUND!...

James Stewart and Anthony Mann team up for one last time—and the only time in CinemaScope—to bring to life one of the best and grittiest...

Elvis Presley at his most Elvis-like-ness! In one of his few films not overseen by Hal B. Wallis, Elvis shines as the young...

Barry Levinson’s film of Bernard Malamud’s novel is Baseball as Mythology. It is also one of the most lyrical, beautiful, and sparse...

The Film Guys and Niki Dakota do it LIVE for the second time before a stunned audience at the FilmDayton Festival! Charles M. “Chuck”...

Herk Harvey's horror tour de force is a low-budget delight and a perfect example of creativity triumphing over a lack of funds! A...

Anthony Mann and John Alton combine their amazing powers to bring one of the first and best police procedural/film noirs of the early...

Billy Wilder’s painful salute to the crumbling facade of “old Hollywood” bears watching again and again. Gloria Swanson, who truly was a...

Alfred Hitchcock reportedly said that he felt Psycho was his best comedy. Of course, the joke is on you, the audience. After a decade of...

After thrilling the world with his bawdy and award-winning comedy Tom Jones, director Tony Richardson came to the States to make this...

Not surprisingly, it took Germany's "uber-director" Fritz Lang a few years before he was ready to make his first sound film. In fact, he...

Warren Williams goes toe-to-toe with the demure and extremely cute Loretta Young and the not so demure but still somewhat cute (in a...

As far as French film directors go, Raymond Bernard is one of the most neglected. At the time he made "Wooden Crosses" in 1932, there...

Arguably one of the best and most gothic of the early sound horror film cycle, with Bela Lugosi at his best as the villainous Murder...

WELCOME TO EPISODE 100!! Charles Laughton created a singular work of art with "The Night of the Hunter." A film so intensely personal...

The last time we spoke about Luis Buñuel, he was making fun of rich hypocrites in The Exterminating Angel. In this earlier film, a far...

“The Boys.” “Two Minds Without a Single Thought.” “The Fiddle and the Bow.” “Dick and Doof.” No matter what they are called, or in what...

Back again after a much longer hiatus than we expected!! Two movies, both great in their own way but not quite perfect, chosen without...

An intensely personal piece of cinema, which severely damaged its director’s career and almost killed its star. Yet thirty years on it...

Jeunet and Caro's delightful delicacy "Delicatessen" is arguably the best post-apocalyptic cannibal comedy—ever. Combining a singular...

This might better be titled "Sullivan's Travails" for all that poor John L. Sullivan is put through in trying to research his new pet...

Christopher Nolan is now best known for resuscitating “Batman,” to the delight of the Dark Knight’s minions everywhere. He burst on the...

It's three for the price of one this week as The Film Guys and Niki Dakota present three films which don't appear on their List of...

A production of The Archers, aka Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, "Black Narcissus" is great for only the spectacular Technicolor...

From lowly cel washer to head of a cartoon studio bearing his name, Charles M. "Chuck" Jones was one of the great success stories in...

Albert and David Maysles' "Direct cinema" masterpiece tells the story of four door-to-door bible salesman and the people and problems...

The grand combination of Godfrey Reggio's thoughts, Philip Glass' music and Ron Fricke's cinematography make this film not only an...

As the result of a horrible case of writer’s block, Federico Fellini created one of his most seminal and autobiographical films. The...

What a way to start your career! Tim Burton’s debut feature and Paul Reubens’ big screen debut as his beloved and bizarre man-child...

John Frankenheimer's political thriller, based on Richard Condon's novel, is as riveting today as it ever was, remakes notwithstanding....

Anthony Mann took an aging genre, the western, and an aging star, James Stewart, and turned them both around in Winchester '73. This film...

Pat O’Brien as a priest, James Cagney as a murderous hood, and Humphrey Bogart as a sleazy lawyer? How can you go wrong? Lay it all in...

What a better choice for Friday the 13th than Stanley Kubrick acidic comedy about the destruction of our world via Nuclear Holocaust?...

The first and best-often imitated, never equalled—even by its creators! Join us as we reminisce about one of THE summer movies! IMDb entry

Orson Welles—twenty-five years old—comes to Hollywood and makes this film. Amazing. IMDb entry

Philip Kaufman’s EPIC filming of Tom Wolfe’s book about the Mercury Space Program is not only a PERFECT MOVIE, but arguably one of the...

From that fateful day in 1975, when Film Guy Geo. Willeman got his Super 8mm print of Metropolis, it was a given that this film would be...

Denis Sanders created the perfect Elvis Time Capsule with his 1970 film Elvis: That’s The Way It Is. Elvis fan or no, one cannot deny the...

After returning from exile to his native Spain, director Luis Buñuel made one his greatest and most controversial films—Viridiana. After...

Harsh—gritty—dark—and that’s just the opening credits!! Martin Scorsese’s unflinching portrait of boxer Jake LaMotta won the “Best...

GUANINE—ADENINE—THYMINE—CYTOSINE. The four amino acids that make up deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA, the stuff that we are made of, to...

Roger Donaldson’s unfairly overlooked gem is, in our minds, one of the finest stories of the power of the human spirit EVER. Anthony...

Alfred Hitchcock, Ernest Lehman, Bernard Hermann, and Cary Grant—what a glorious quartet! Hitchcock winds up the 1950’s with one of his...

Orson & the soon-to-be-ex Mrs. Orson Welles on a cruise of total weirdness. A crazy amalgam of style and mystery and the strangely blonde...

Once again, The Film Guys take to the phones to answer questions about love, life, and movies. The day this show was recorded, the...