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Monday, March 24, 2008

The Stone Face

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73. Much as I loved Lucky McKee's May , I can't say that I like the idea that he qualifies as a "Master of Horror" on the ...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Escapism

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69. So, there's not an original thought in Neil Marshall's Doomsday (2008). It doesn't take a film historian to spot the source...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

An Off Week.

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A bit of an off week for me. 65. Dario Argento's second installment for the Masters of Horror, Pelts (2006), is more recognizable as th...
Monday, March 03, 2008

Two Week's Worth

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49. Howard Hawks's Ball of Fire (1941) contains one of my favorite Billy Wilder screenplays (with Charles Brackett). A reworking of Sno...
Monday, February 18, 2008

Into the Archives

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I’ve accumulated a LOT of movies on VHS over the years. I’ve been weeding out the pre-records for a while now through eBay and other means, ...
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Monday, February 11, 2008

Oil and Water

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31. Though it was made in Mexico, Luis Bunuel's The Young One (1960) was the director's second and last English language movie. He ...
Monday, February 04, 2008

Movies for the week of 1/28-2/3

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25. For a guy who didn't make any kind of name for himself in horror movies, Lambert Hillyer made a couple of interesting ones. The bett...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Movies for 1/21-1/27, 2008

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19. Much as I love the Marx Brothers, no one in the world can convince me that they made more than two good movies. For the most part, the ...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Stomp.

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13. Yasuzo Masumura's Black Test Car (1962) is an indictment of capitalist backstabbing among industrial spies, and if it's less ou...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Dark Pasts, Dark Futures

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8. There is a certain shock of recognition found in watching Shinobi no mono (1962, directed by Satsuo Yamamoto), because many of its ninja...
Friday, January 11, 2008

A Year-long Movie Argosy

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I've been lazy about writing about the movies I've seen in the past year, so I thought I'd try to jumpstart my interest in it by...
Monday, December 03, 2007

Movies for the week of 11/26-12/2/07

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I'm still mulling over my reaction to Johnnie To's Throwdown (2004), which seems to be a weird hybrid of his comedies and his crime...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Innocence and Experience

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The way Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence (2004) is made shows a chilly kind of French discipline, which exaggerates the fact that it d...
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Early Hitchcock and Favorite Horror Movie Posters

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I've been sitting on public domain collections of Hitchcock for a while now. One of my brothers, who seems to forget this every year, bu...
Monday, August 06, 2007

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So I go to my local mom and pop video store to rent Bergman's Cries and Whispers and Wild Strawberries this weekend, neither of which ...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Movies for the week ending May 6, 2007

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I played hooky from work on Friday afternoon to go see Spider-Man 3 (2007, d. Sam Raimi), which was good fun. I like it more than the first...
Monday, February 19, 2007

Movies for the Week Ending 2/18/07

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Leo McCarey was convinced that the Cary Grant persona was an impersonation of himself, learned by Grant on the set of The Awful Truth (1937...