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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Brief Hits

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What I saw last week. Minimal reviews. Sorry. 263. A Touch of Zen (1969, directed by King Hu). One of my very favorite movies. I'd reco...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

Burning Down the House

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258. A couple of years ago, one of my friends tried to get me to watch a horror movie called Cutting Class, a slasher movie. I don't mu...
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Monday, September 08, 2008

A Life of Illusion

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253. and 254. Although they are ultimately very different movies (I was led to believe that they are very similar), both The Prestige (2006...
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Monday, September 01, 2008

Character Studies

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250. The Dark Corner (1946, directed by Henry Hathaway) finds Lucille Ball playing against type as a PI's secretary who must pull her ...
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Monday, August 25, 2008

An ode to the Swamp Thing

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I've been re-reading my collection of old Swamp Thing comics the last couple of weeks. I have pretty much all of Swampy's appearan...
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A Light Week

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248. I was taking a drink when it happened, so when May Canaday walked across the screen near the beginning of Brick (2005, directed by Ria...
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Monday, August 18, 2008

It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)

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243. One of Roger Corman's last films as a director, Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It (1971) is a...
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Monday, August 11, 2008

Scream and Shout

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239. So following up my viewing of Hellraiser a couple of weeks ago, this week, I stuck Hellbound : Hellraiser II (1988, directed by Tony...
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Monday, August 04, 2008

Last Night I Dreamed of Manderly...

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237. Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940) is a haunted movie. Rebecca De Winter, the title character, is dead before the first frame of the movie...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The Legion of Super Jerks

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I was replying to a post on another blog earlier this week and the subject of my favorite Legion of Superheroes episode came up. Specifical...
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Monday, July 28, 2008

Three Revisitings

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234. It's difficult to imagine an American studio of the period making a film as resolutely downbeat as Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948,...
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Monday, July 21, 2008

Objects of Chaos

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231. It's common practice to group Son of Frankenstein (1939, directed by Rowland V. Lee) with the first two films in the Frankenstein ...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Do the Batusi

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So my brother called me last night to ask if I wanted to go see The Dark Knight at the IMAX. I'm not opposed to it, but I'm leery a...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

Functions of Genre

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Only two features this week: 221. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008, directed by Guillermo del Toro) has a pretty standard storyline for an...
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Monday, July 07, 2008

Your Stupid Minds! Stupid! Stupid!

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Last week was an anomaly for me, in so far as I didn't watch any movies whatsoever (I did sort of half-listen to Amadeus , but I can...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Superheroes and Samurai

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210. The French cartoonist, Jean Giraud, who goes by the pen name of Moebius, has one of the most distinctive drawing styles in the world. I...
Monday, June 16, 2008

Pussy Power

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206. Teeth (2007, directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein) wants in its black little heart to be a vicious satire of teen-age sexual mores, focus...
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Monday, June 09, 2008

Something New Under the Sun

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Every so often, when I think I've seen just about everything, something comes along and knocks me on my ass. This week, it's (201.) ...
Thursday, June 05, 2008

Nine that Rip

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So, a couple of weeks ago, I picked up the recent Image disc for the Shaw Brothers film, The Magic Blade . Like most recent Shaw reissues fr...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

Calamari

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I've put two new reviews on my main web site. They are: Iron Man (expanding--to put it mildly--on the comments I made here a couple of ...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Look Ma, No Subtitles!

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Staying away from the art house and the avant garde this week, I watched three fairly accomplished genre exercises. 185. And Soon the Darkne...
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Friday, May 16, 2008

Begone Dull Care

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Just a quick round-up of last weeks movies. I didn't watch much in the way of features, but I worked my way through the second disc of N...
Monday, May 05, 2008

Where's Donald Duck?

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Mostly short films for me this week. More Looney Tunes from The Golden Collection, Volume 5, disc 2: Fun-Filled Fairy Tales 135. Bewitched B...