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Sunday, December 04, 2022

Cops and Robbers

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James Cagney in G-Men (1935) While I was discussing gangster films with my long suffering partner a couple of nights ago, I asked her to...
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Monday, October 31, 2022

Phone a Friend

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I wish The Black Phone (2022, directed by Scott Derrickson) had the same ferocity as Sinister , the director's last horror movie. Tha...
Monday, October 24, 2022

When the Autumn Moon is Bright...

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Every time I revisit The Wolf Man (1941, directed by George Waggner), I envision screenwriter Curt Siodmak upon writing the werewolf'...
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Friday, October 21, 2022

You Inherit the Flames

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Daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain Now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame But you inherit the sin...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Bride and Doom

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[•REC]3: Genesis (2012, directed by Paco Plaza) makes the same "mistake" committed by Halloween III: The Season of the Witch a...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Sunglasses at Night

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I told a friend that Dario Argento's new film, Dark Glasses (2022) strikes me as what you might get if you fed his old film, Cat O...
Friday, October 07, 2022

Childhood Trauma

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In retrospect, Tobe Hooper probably should have walked away from Cannon Films and Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus after the debacle of Life...
Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Sins of the Fathers

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"Henry, your sovereign, Is prisoner to the foe; his state usurp'd, His realm a slaughter-house, his subjects slain, His statutes ...
Sunday, October 02, 2022

Double Double Toil and Trouble

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October is upon us again and that means horror movies and the October Horror Movie Challenge. The first film I watched was Underwater, whi...
Monday, September 05, 2022

Wedding Jitters

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The main villain in The Invitation (2022, directed by Jessica M. Thompson) looks like someone crossed Sean Connery and Udo Kier in a gene...
Friday, August 26, 2022

The Grant Mystique: Penny Serenade (1941)

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On the Wikipedia page for Penny Serenade (1941, directed by George Stevens), there's a short section detailing a recent "AI colo...
Monday, July 18, 2022

The Films of Robert Aldrich: The Dirty Dozen (1937)

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When I originally started to write about Robert Aldrich in the early days of this blog, I formulated a list of some of Aldrich's main ...
Monday, June 27, 2022

The Future is Now

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There's a sense of the world moving on in David Cronenberg's new film, Crimes of the Future (2022). A lot of Cronenberg's fil...
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Friday, May 27, 2022

A Hymn for the Red Planet

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I bought a copy of The War of the Worlds (1953, directed by Byron Haskins) during a recent Criterion Collection sale. When my long-suffer...
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Sunday, May 15, 2022

Free Falling

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There is an unspoken assumption among some connoisseurs of American pre-Code cinema that the shocking freedom these films enjoyed was so...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

True/False 2022: Wayward Daughters and Hot Volcanoes

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All of the films I saw on my second day at True/False were directed by women and were by and large about women and relationships. I didn...
Friday, March 11, 2022

True/False 2022: People Watching and Shoot 'Em Ups

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I took last year off from my city's annual True/False film festival. It was the first time I'd missed the festival in the seventee...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

Carrying on the Family Business

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, directed by Jason Reitman) is two thirds of a good movie. That two thirds of a film are better than any ...
Thursday, February 03, 2022

The Grant Mystique: The Last Outpost (1935)

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I used to think that Cary Grant could do anything. Comedy? Drama? Action? There's a classic film in almost every category to make an a...
Friday, October 29, 2021

In It For the Kills

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I guess you could call it an epiphany. While I was watching Halloween Kills (2021, directed by David Gordon Green), I realized that the a...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Going Ape

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I must have been in a bad mood when I saw Kong: Skull Island (2017, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts) when it was in theaters because I di...
Sunday, October 03, 2021

It's Not a Tumor!

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I wasn't expecting much of Malignant (2021, directed by James Wan). The film has received withering reviews from other quarters and m...
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Saturday, October 02, 2021

Creature Stole My Twinkie

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Fifty-two horror and mystery movies made before 1948 were licensed for television in 1957, including the Universal horror movies like F...
Saturday, June 05, 2021

A Dragon and His Wrath

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Thou hadst been better have been born a dog Than answer my waked wrath!  --Williams Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene III Guy Ritchie...
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Saturday, April 17, 2021

Couple's Therapy

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I sometimes wonder what would have happened if Brian De Palma had cast Barbara Crampton as the lead in Body Double , rather than...
Monday, February 01, 2021

Hammer Time

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In the mostly silent opening of André Øvredal's latest film, Mortal (2020), there is a huge sense of landscape. Even once the film mo...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

End of the World Blues

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The thing about doomsday is that it's always the end of somebody's world. "Eschatology" is a big word for a commonp...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Cuts Like a Knife

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Knife + Heart (2018, directed by Yann Gonzalez) begins with one of the horror genre's better visual jokes. The slasher film and the g...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Doing the Islands

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Sweetheart (2019, directed by J. D. Dillard) is a model contemporary low budget genre film. It's efficient, it provides all the genre...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

An Unwanted Heirloom

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There's an old interview with director David Cronenberg that has stayed with me in which the interviewer asked Cronenberg wha...
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