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Read more →Monthly Archives: June 2010
Bigger Than Life (1956)
Bigger Than Life ***½ Country: US Director: Nicholas Ray As Bigger Than Life opens, we see the long horizontal façade of a school building stretched across the huge CinemaScope screen. A bell rings, and elementary school students come pouring through…
Read more →Movie Poll: Who’s Your Favorite Horror Movie Icon?
Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon”
Do an Internet search on the film director Michael Haneke, and you will likely conjure an image of a saintly-looking senior citizen with a big white beard who looks like he could play St. Nick at the local mall during…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 06.27.10
July 3, 1905: The long tradition of cinematic canine heroes begins in England with the debut of the seven-minute melodrama Rescued by Rover. June 30, 1929: Alfred Hitchcock‘s Blackmail, which nearly saw completion as a silent film, was re-shot with…
Read more →Jaws: On A 35-Year Obsession
“There is a creature alive today that has survived millions of years of evolution. Without change, without passion, and without logic. It lives to kill. A mindless eating machine, it will attack and devour anything. It is as if God……
Read more →The Wolfman (2010): A Movie Review
The Wolfman: A Movie Review After the death of his brother, Shakespearean actor Lawrence Talbot (Benicio del Toro) returns to the family stately home in Blackmoor. His father John (Anthony Hopkins) and brother’s fiancee Gwen (Emily Blunt) wait for him…
Read more →Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work & Other Comedy Films
Comedy is not pretty. If you don’t believe the saying popularized by Steve Martin during his standup years, then take a gander at movies Hollywood has given us about comedians. In most cases, they are lonely, neurotic, insecure, sad people. …
Read more →First Time Watch: The Night Of The Hunter
People often say, “Beware of false prophets.” It’s an important life lesson, and Charles Laughton’s The Night Of The Hunter (his only credited directorial effort) perfectly exemplifies this warning. Another invaluable rule for folks to heed is, “Beware of false…
Read more →What’s In The Basket This Time?
In the early days of this blog, I featured the trailer for Basket Case–perhaps the most underrated horror filck of the 1980s. Even though Duane and his mutated, basket-dwelling psycho brother Belial seemingly perished at the end of their first…
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