MONDO 70: A Wild World of Cinema

A randomly comprehensive survey of extraordinary movie experiences from the art house to the grindhouse, featuring the good, the bad, the ugly, but not the boring or the banal.

Saturday, June 15, 2013

On the Big Screen: MAN OF STEEL (2013)

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W hen I was a kid I hated the Adventures of Superman TV show. What bugged me about it was the absence of supervillains. Why was Superman de...

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BAD COMPANY (1972)

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G ood westerns age well. As period pieces they ought not to date. There are exceptions like the singing cowboy films, but those aren't r...

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Friday, June 14, 2013

DVR Diary: BATHING BEAUTY (1944)

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T urner Classic Movies was quick to rearrange its schedule in order to do timely homage to Esther Williams, the movie-star swimmer who died ...

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Pre-Code Parade: SUCCESS AT ANY PRICE (1934)

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D ouglas Fairbanks jr. and Frank Morgan are the Mad Men of 1934 in J. Walter Ruben's film version of John Howard Lawson's play Succe...

Monday, June 10, 2013

Now Playing: JUNE 10, 1933

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A confident Warner Bros. has a follow-up to this spring's big hit 42nd Street ready for release little more than three months after th...

Saturday, June 8, 2013

ULZANA'S RAID (1972)

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B ack in 1954, Robert Aldrich directed Burt Lancaster in Apache , one of the decade's wave of sympathetic-Indian movies. Eighteen years ...

Thursday, June 6, 2013

SILVER LODE (1954)

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S tudents of 1950s Hollywood cinema always seem to be looking for allegories of McCarthyism in the decade's films. Invasion of the Body ...

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