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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

A Prayer for the Departed...

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313. Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage pretty much sets the tempo for the giallo thrillers of the 1970s. I won't go...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Femme Fatales

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306. After the election, I felt a certain obligation to watch Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), which used to be one o...
Wednesday, November 05, 2008

The October Horror Challenge: The Bitter Taste of Failure.

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The stragglers from the October Challenge: October 26: 300. Wicked Little Things (2006, directed by J. S. Cardone ), in which a woman and h...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

The October Horror Movie Challenge, continued.

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From the challenge: October 20: 293. The Abandoned (2006, directed by Nacho Cerdà), in which a woman returns to the home of her parents in ...
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Monday, October 20, 2008

The October Horror Movie Challenge, 2008 edition.

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Like Jason returning in a Friday the 13 th sequel, The October Horror Movie Challenge is upon us once again. The object, as usual, is to wa...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Belatedly...

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I was on vacation for a week, and I'm only now getting caught up. Here's what I watched before embarking on the annual October Horro...
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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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