Sunday, March 8, 2020

DVR Diary: BRIGHT LIGHTS (1935)

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B usby Berkeley's comedy is a star vehicle for Joe E. Brown, Warner Bros.' leading comic of the pre-Code era, that makes a half-he...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

THE GIANT OF MARATHON (La battaglia di Maratona, 1959)

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P eople may still know that the length of the modern marathon race is based on the distance from the Persian War battlefield of Marathon t...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

On the Big Screen: THE TRAITOR (Il traditore, 2019)

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A t age eighty, and after more than fifty years of filmmaking Marco Bellocchio is arguably the elder statesman of Italian cinema. In the 2...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Too Much TV: BATWOMAN (2019 - ?)

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S peaking of superheroes, the CW's newest DC Comics show has predictably been renewed for a second season. The bad news is that Batwoman...
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Saturday, February 8, 2020

On the Big Screen: BIRDS OF PREY AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN (2020)

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"I' m telling it all wrong!" Harley Quinn confesses well into her new film, and when the film itself admits this, what more...
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Sunday, January 26, 2020

COLD WAR (Zimna wojna, 2018)

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P awel Pawlikowski's follow-up to Ida , though mostly praised by critics, didn't have the same impact in the U.S. as the earlier, ...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

QUEEN OF THE HIGH SEAS (Le Avventure di Mary Read, 1961)

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B est known for horror films, Umberto Lenzi began his career making period swashbucklers, starting with this 1961 outing inspired by the c...