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Mall's collapse could prove costly for taxpayers
Matt Potter 3:45 p.m., April 20
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Hot Babe Dynamite
This week’s trio of films qualify as so bad they’re educational
John Brahm’s Hot Rods to Hell Believe it or don’t, I’ve probably paid more visits to Hell than I have to Citizen Kane’s Xanadu. En route to the motel of their dreams, invalid (pronounced: “een-va-leed) ...
Harold Lloyd's organic flow
These early slapstick two-reelers should be required text for all wannabe comic filmmakers
This week we feature a trio of Harold Lloyd shorts from 1920, all of which are available on YouTube. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach’s Haunted Spooks While Lloyd was posing for promotional stills midway ...
Half snuff film, half exploitative grindhouse
Films that never fail
Hated (USA, 1993, Skinny Nervous Guy Productions) is a great documentary the way that The Godfather Part II is a great movie or Moby Dick is a great book. They illustrate a story of a ...
As potent today as it was in 1987
A truth serum about capitalism
“How much is enough, Gordon?” Bud Fox asks his boss, Gordon Gekko. That quote encompasses exactly what Wall Street (USA, 1987, 20th Century Fox) is about. Gekko wants it all and even that’s not enough. ...
Ex-SEAL turned private investigator
Two of my favorite shows
I’m a sci-fi and anime fan, so people are often surprised that two of my favorite shows are Magnum P.I. and I Love Lucy. I think these shows are so original that they can’t be ...
Netflix picks
Seven siblings fight for the right to live, and two teenagers accomplish so much in so little time
The End of the F*ing World (UK, 2017, Netflix) is a British TV show with eight episodes. It’s based on the graphic novel by the same name. It’s witty and fresh, plus it comes with ...
A nod to maniacal cartoons
Terror that flaps in the night
Darkwing Duck gave viewers mild-mannered father Drake Mallard, who transforms into the superhero Darkwing Duck, the terror that flaps in the night. Infused with a Silver Age–era comics’ sensibility as well as a nod to ...
Films about unspeakable acts
Be careful what you pretend to be
Here are two films that put the viewer in the hot seat. The Intruder stars Star Trek’s William Shatner (before he took the captain’s seat) as a transplant coming to the South to rouse whites ...
Hidden gems: Life of Pi and In Bruges
Under the public radar
People always dread when their favorite novel gets adapted into another medium. So you can imagine how I felt when I heard Ang Lee was going to direct Life of Pi. But I was never ...
Shot in one 90-minute take
Like walking through a museum of emotion
The Witch is a supernatural horror story that is wonderfully menacing and draws a gloomy, sinister picture of a Puritan family living on the edge of the woods in 17th-century New England after being banished ...
Conflicted 1950s housewife
Far from Heaven and Brief Encounter go deep into the social issues of the period
The two films I would recommend would be Far From Heaven and Brief Encounter because both deal with the marital struggles of a mid-century housewife being conflicted with what is desired by them and society. ...
