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.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Pre-Code Parade: GIRL CRAZY (1932)

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Even the advertising is outrageous for this one. I like a Gershwin tune; how about you? Hollywood liked them plenty, but there was s...

Saturday, September 28, 2013

DVR Diary: THE OKLAHOMAN (1957)

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J oel McCrea is linked in movie history with Randolph Scott, his co-star in Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country . By the time they mad...

Thursday, September 26, 2013

DVR Diary: OSAKA ELEGY (1936)

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1936 is still the early talkie era in Japan, even though Kenji Mizoguchi had first experimented with sound all the way back in 1930. Yasuji...

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Lady For A Day: NOW PLAYING, Sept. 24, 1933

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M ilwaukee, I have not forgotten you. It's just that the resources available on the Google News Archive aren't so great for Septembe...

Sunday, September 22, 2013

SOLOMON KANE (2009)

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T he Puritan wanderer Solomon Kane was one of the early creations of the short-lived, now legendary pulp writer Robert E. Howard, predating ...

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Friday, September 20, 2013

Pre-Code Parade: TODAY WE LIVE (1933)

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W illiam Faulkner was Snoopy: a dogged writer who dreamed of being a World War I flying ace. Faulkner had the double advantage over the bi...

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Ken Norton (1943-2013)

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S ports fans will remember Norton as the man who broke Muhammad Ali's jaw in the first of three split-decision fights, but reade...

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