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Football: a career low for Lucille Ball

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John Wayne and a latex octopus

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Girlfriends on film: Henry Orient, Thora & ScarJo, and Cattle Annie & Little Britches

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Football: a career low for Lucille Ball

Do you miss the prospects of a football-free 2020? Not me, especially with this trio of celluloid scores to spike in celebration. Easy Living (1949) Jacques Tourneur had never seen ...

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John Wayne and a latex octopus

Finding this week’s selections was as easy as giving the old external harddrive a spin. There, nestled alphabetically in the “W”s, were a trio of “Wakes,” all new to me. ...

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Girlfriends on film: Henry Orient, Thora & ScarJo, and Cattle Annie & Little Britches

Spinning ‘round the turn comes this week’s sure-bet trifecta, a trio of thoroughbred friendships of the unforgettable teenage girl variety. The World of Henry Orient (1964) While strolling through Central ...

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Claude Sautet: melodramatic throwback

It’s been almost four decades since Romy Schneider’s career was cut short by cardiac arrest at the unripe age of 43. Schneider made her acting debut when she was 15, ...

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Isolation drills from Groucho Marx to Sam Rockwell

When the lockdown first caught hold, I pinky-promised myself not to devote column space to movies focused on quarantines, vaccines, epidemics, or violently insane world leaders who suggest injecting household chemicals as a cure for ...

June 5, 2020

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Al Capone’s film legacy

I have a hood on my back. No sooner do I finish Capone, Hollywood’s latest footnote to the legacy of the Prohibition-era crime lord, than our trustworthy friend Jon over at Rarefilmm.com posts what is ...

May 29, 2020

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May 22, 2020

Brackett and Wilder go to Hollywood

Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett collaborated on fourteen pictures together before going their separate artistic ways in 1951. (Wilder went on to have an equally fertile collaboration with I.A.L. Diamond with whom he shared screenwriter’s ...

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May 15, 2020

Action in the 1970s: Gene Hackman, Walter Matthau, and Whit Bissell

A trio of ‘70s action flicks for your amusement, led by Gene Hackman, Walter Matthau, and... Whit Bissell? French Connection II (1975) The porkpie hat is as unmistakably American as the beret is French. And ...

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May 8, 2020

Three Lloyd Bacon comedies starring James Cagney

This week’s triad features a tangy-as-always James Cagney starring in three comedies under the direction of Warner Brothers’ swift-footed Lloyd Bacon. Picture Snatcher (1933) In his column in the January 21, 1933 edition of Editor ...

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May 1, 2020

Vietnam vet turned dirty-water hot dog vendor

For Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who told Fox News that older Americans should sacrifice their lives for the good of the economy, we offer up a handful of ass-kicking seniors, led by pandemic paraclete ...

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April 24, 2020

The Filthiest People Alive

The first installment of the three part documentary feature Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time premiered on numerous VOD platforms this week. Here are three essential exploitation epics for further research. Pink Flamingos ...

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April 16, 2020

The best use of a clip from The Searchers this side of Mean Streets

Theft, drugs, and bad romance drive this week’s trio of tales. The Whistlers (2019) Birds warble in the background as career detective Cristi (Vlad Ivanov) pulls up to Gilda’s (Catrinel Marlon) house. Or do they? ...

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The death knell for death metal

This week, we’ve got metalheads, handmaids, and a tour of New York you don’t want to take. Saigon Metalhood (2020) Three generations of musicians representing the past, present, and future of Vietnamese metal are given ...

April 7, 2020

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Ugly Easter

Two tales of troubled towns — and one set in New York, which has enough real-life troubles at the moment. Blow the Man Down (2019) It isn’t long after the Connolly sisters lay their mother ...

April 2, 2020

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March 22, 2020

Daily DVD & Download: Space 1999 - the complete series & then some

I finally got through the 17-disc Space 1999 set, a show I'd never watched before other than on early Mystery Science Theater 3000s. Most episodes failed to keep my attention for long, but I definitely ...

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March 21, 2020

Daily DVD & Download: Buck Rogers VS Nolan's Batman

I finally slogged thru most of the Buck Rogers complete series DVD set, and it was pretty much as dismal as I feared, other than a small – very small - handful of exceptions. The ...

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Football: a career low for Lucille Ball

John Wayne and a latex octopus

Girlfriends on film: Henry Orient, Thora & ScarJo, and Cattle Annie & Little Britches

Claude Sautet: melodramatic throwback

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