Column Chronicles: Great movies simply reviewed

Great movies simply reviewed

Frank Cotolo
November 2, 2023

Tippy Whippy reviews some of the greatest movies of all time in his popular streamlined style.

THE GODFATHER -- Vito is a criminal sugar daddy. He's old. Two of his sons are gangsters. One is a soldier who doesn't want to be a gangster until gangsters shoot Vito. Then he becomes the best gangster in the family.

RAGING BULL -- A boxer wants to be a champion. He practices punching on his brother and girlfriend. Some gangsters want him to fake losing a match and he gets into lots of trouble and his brother and wife hate him after that and he goes to jail.

CASABLANCA -- A heavy smoking owner of a cafe that does not welcome Nazis still loves a woman who left him in Paris to smoke alone and married someone else who is a spy and the owner of the cafe decides to dump the gal and befriend a French policeman.

CITIZEN KANE -- A kid inherits an oil well and grows up to be a spoiled businessman who hates being rich and anyone who doesn't love him and when he dies no one knows why he was like that.

GONE WITH THE WIND -- The Civil War depresses everyone in the South and one girl can't figure out what's going on.

SUNSET BLVD -- A retired actress is a creepy woman who thinks she is still a star and shoots someone so he can tell her story.

STAR WARS -- It's some other time and yet this story is typical, with a princess, a badman dressed in black, a soldier who learns to fight with magic and there are lots of explosions.

BEN-HUR -- When Rome ruled the world there was a guy with a hyphen in his last name who is accused of murder. He is sentenced to slavery, saves a Roman general, wins a chariot race and is better off than his family that he finds out have a decaying disease. But he meets Jesus.

ROCKY -- This is like the bull that raged except this guy doesn't beat his family up and does not become a champion boxer, just a well-known boxer.

JAWS -- A big shark spreads fear on a big beach and some whimp winds up blowing it up with a tank of air or something that explodes.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.