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Al Capone’s film legacy

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Brackett and Wilder go to Hollywood

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

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Three Lloyd Bacon comedies starring James Cagney

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

May 1, 2020

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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 ...

April 24, 2020

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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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April 7, 2020

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 ...

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April 2, 2020

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 ...

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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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March 20, 2020

A NASA intergalactic message from Girl Scouts

This week’s duo sends voices across the universe. Is anybody listening? Troop Zero (2019) Do words travel through the universe — and if so, does Christmas Flint’s (Mckenna Grace) late momma hear them? A representative ...

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Daily DVD & Download: Capsule reviews before you buy or binge

I've got over 1000 DVDs I can watch during this stay-at-home shutdown, including several crates I recently purchased full of obscure horror movies, recent blockbusters, plus plenty of grindhouse oldies, including a 1983 Chuck Norris ...

March 20, 2020

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Dog days of Jack London and William A. Wellman

One wonders how replicant Harrison Ford will fare playing opposite a CG tail-wagger — or is it the other way around? — in the latest incarnation of The Call of the Wild. Just in case, ...

February 21, 2020

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February 6, 2020

Backstage musicals courtesy Michael Damien and Phil Karlson

A pair of backstage musicals both old and new. High Strung Free Dance (2018) New to blu-ray, this affectionately bunched bundle of backstage musical cliches plays like a smaller-scale musical mock-up of La La Land ...

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January 24, 2020

No match for bad dad Robert Mitchum

Bad dads: there are no George Baileys or clownfish named Marlin in this reprobative grouping of sires. Home from the Hill (1960) There were two venal Vincente Minnelli patriarchs to choose from, neither of whom ...

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Al Capone’s film legacy

Brackett and Wilder go to Hollywood

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

Three Lloyd Bacon comedies starring James Cagney

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