Montage Film Reviews Sunday DVD Rental Suggestion - (SDRSP)

The documentary is fleshed out with details of mob connections, MM's affairs with both Kennedy brothers, and lots of archive footage. Each puzzle piece is substantiated by modern interviews conducted with: Eunice Murray - MM's housekeeper, Walter Schaefer - ambulance owner, Sgt. Jack Clemons - first LAPD respondent, Arthur James / Bob Slatzer - MM's friends, Jeanne Carmen - MM's neighbor, Joan Greenson - daughter of MM's psychiatrist, Tom Richter - LA Police Chief Sam Yorty - LA mayor, Bill Romer - FBI agent, Chuck O'Brien - aide to Jimmy Hoffa, Fred Otash / John Danoff - PI wiretappers hired by Hoffa, Peter Summers - JFK aide, George Smathers - Senator and Frank Saunders - Joe Kennedy's chauffeur. Other interviewees include house guests of Peter Lawford, also his ex-wife Deborah Gould, and an LA DJ who met with a despondent MM shortly before she died. Only Sgt. Clemons flatly declares that Monroe was murdered, but his "irrefutable proof" is shown to be erroneous-- a strong case for non-bias on the part of the show's creators. What's undeniable here is that in the final summer of her life, Marilyn Monroe was unemployed, hooked on barbiturates and talking to several people about an imminent death. Her fears (or predictions) became reality in the early hours of August 5th, 1962.

Marilyn Monroe stars in this comedy about a millionaire who takes a job in a theatre in order to get close to a woman he hopes will be his latest sexual conquest, but he falls in love with her instead. There are cameos in this film from Bing Crosby and Milton Burle and it would be Monroe's last musical film performance.

Bus Stop is a 1956 American romantic comedy film directed by Joshua Logan for 20th Century Fox, starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray and Hope Lange. Unlike most of Monroe's movies, Bus Stop is neither a full-fledged comedy nor a musical, but rather a dramatic piece; it was the first film she appeared in after studying at the Actors Studio in New York. Monroe does however sing one song: "That Old Black Magic" by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. Bus Stop was based on two plays by William Inge, People in the Wind and Bus Stop. The inspiration for the play Bus Stop came from people Inge met in Tonganoxie, Kansas.

A young and unstable girl turns to violence on the day of her first job. The screenplay was written by Daniel Taradash, based on the novel Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong, published in 1951.

Montgomery Brogan (Edward Norton) spends his last day of freedom in New York with the people whom he loves, trying to figure out how he got himself in to a bad situation. This film is based on the novel The 25th Hour by David Benioff, who also wrote the screenplay for this film.

Frank Pierce is a paramedic who is overworked and lonely until he meets the daughter of a patient. Her father had a heart attacked and Frank managed to bring him back from the dead. This fact is very important to him considering that he is being haunted by the ghost of the first person that he feels responsible for loosing; a young girl by the name of Rose.

Police drama about a veteran officer who escorts a rookie on his first day with the LAPD's tough inner-city narcotics unit. "Training Day" is a blistering action drama that asks the audience to decide what is necessary, what is heroic and what crosses the line in the harrowing gray zone of fighting urban crime. Does law-abiding law enforcement come at the expense of justice and public safety? If so, do we demand safe streets at any cost?

Hanzo 'The Razor' Itami is a petty officer in Edo province who uses torture as a means of gaining confessions and is always at odds with his superiors. These Japanese classics from the 1970’s take the familiar samurai story with their swordplay, honour and blood and adds sex in to the mix. Politically correct they are not and I am sure that they will have many a feminist fuming, but they are classics and as such have earned their place in this podcast.

Jonathan Rivers has just lost his pregnant wife in an accident and is still mourning when Raymond Price approaches him to tell him that his wife has been sending messages from the other side.

Mr Thomas Anderson works a nine to five job with a large computer software company and supplements his income with a little hacking on the side. His place in the world is a rather awkward one and he reaches out over the internet to try and find out why.