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, June 2, 2014

DVR Diary: THE COSSACKS (1928)

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E rnest Torrence was silent cinema's father from hell. It's curious that an actor who first established himself as a heavy came to...

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Sunday, June 1, 2014

On the Big Screen: GODZILLA (2014)

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C ould Gareth Edwards's picture possibly live up to its trailers? The great thing about them is that they sold the second American versi...

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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Real Pulp Fiction: ARGOSY, MAY 27, 1939

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F rom this week's "Argonotes" letters column, responding to a letter from J. H. Calderman of the Bronx who protests that Argos...

DVR Diary: WELCOME DANGER (1929)

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H arold Lloyd had finished shooting his latest silent film before he started taking talking pictures seriously. The way he told it afterward...

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

The last of the singing cowboys

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J ust last weekend I saw Herb Jeffries on an episode of the Virginian TV show . I was intrigued when he was listed as the main guest star in...

Monday, May 26, 2014

On the Big Screen: X-MEN:DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (2014)

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B ryan Singer is bucking a trend in superhero movies. The trend is away from the auteurist approach that entrusts characters, if not whole...

Sunday, May 25, 2014

I need a holiday!

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A ctually, I had a good time at the movies this weekend. I saw X-Men: Days of Future Past and Godzilla and I'll be reviewing them shor...

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