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Monday, January 26, 2009

Three Dimensional

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For the Vincent Price Challenge: The Oblong Box (1969, directed by Gordon Hessler) teams Vincent Price with Christopher Lee in a film that ...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

Poe, Gangsters, Bogart

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For the Vincent Price Challenge: The Haunted Palace (1963, directed by Roger Corman). Long review here . The Pit and the Pendulum (1961, d...
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Monday, January 12, 2009

Into 2009.

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This blog was never actually intended as a "blog" per se. I originally started it as a means of archiving the writing I've don...
Saturday, January 03, 2009

All Done for 2008. Happy New Year.

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Wow. My last batch of films for 2008 certainly had a queer slant to them. 342. Gilda (1946, directed by Charles Vidor). The first hydrogen ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Closing in On Year's End

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Catching up. Only two weeks to go on my little experiment. John Adams (2008): 324. Join or Die 325. Independence 326. Don't Tread On Me...
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Monday, December 01, 2008

The Two Faces of The Scarecrow

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316. I don't believe I ever saw the full version of Walt Disney's The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (1964, directed by James Neilson ) ...
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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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