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OK, so this could be considered part two of my tribute to director Sidney Lumet. After skimming the late, great auteur’s filmography for my last piece, I realized that 1960’s The Fugitive Kind was one of his early films that…
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It (1927) Movie Review It is a true silent film classic, and in this article guest blogger Venus presents an overview of some of the reviews that the picture received during its original theatrical exhibition : As everyone who reads my blog…
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Woody Allen, who must now be regarded as cinema’s most reliable auteur, is back. This time, Owen Wilson is playing him. Well, maybe let’s just say he’s playing the Woody Allen part. OK, that’s still maybe not quite so fair….
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14 Hours is a great, suspenseful, noir type film. The film is based on the story “Man on a Ledge” and according to the folks at Fox, the film is actually based on an incident in 1938 in which a…
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Everybody out there loved Machete, right? Right??? (Sound of crickets) Well, I certainly loved it, and that makes me more than curious about Hobo with a Shotgun. Rutger Hauer stars as the trigger-happy vagrant in this feature-length expansion of the fake…
Read more →Fourteen-year-olds (of all ages) are juiced for the summer of 2011, because not only do we have the much-anticipated Marvel Comics blockbuster Captain America on tap, we’re also primed for some intergalactic action with DC Comics’ emerald avenger Green Lantern,…
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You laughed out loud (or cringed, perhaps depending on your outlook) when he impersonated President George W. Bush; you couldn’t get enough of the dueling between Alex Trebek and Sean Connery every time Celebrity Jeopardy! aired a new episode; you loved…
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Guest blogger Dave writes: If you watch only one film from the noir genre in your lifetime, make sure that one film is Out of the Past (1947). Every fundamental element used in the making of a great noir film…
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New kid in town James Spader falls for Kim Richards, girlfriend of a local gang leader, in the L.A.-set teen drama Tuff Turf. Join our resident expert in aromatic movies, Julian Andre, as he determines just how tuff a viewing experience it is.
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Guest writer Chris Edwards presents a look at a groundbreaking film classic, Battleship Potemkin: “Part One: The Men and the Maggots.” The words are rendered in tall, heavy text. White against black. Spartan, unflinching. Unluxurious, unadorned. Simple, functional. Communist. Scene…
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