Thursday, November 13, 2014

REAL PULP FICTION: Johnston McCulley in Zorro-Land

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W here can I get the man for the situation? I must have one well born and reared, who knows how to conduct himself in the presence of other...
Saturday, November 8, 2014

On the Big Screen: BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (2014)

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E ver since D. W. Griffith we've accepted editing as the grammar of cinema, yet every so often someone acts as if eliminating editing, o...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

DVR Diary: THE SECRET OF CONVICT LAKE (1951)

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C onvict Lake in California takes its name from an 1871 shootout between a posse and a gang of escaped convicts. For Twentieth Century-Fo...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

Pre-Code Parade: JOURNAL OF A CRIME (1934)

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H ow do you get away with murder? Forget about it! No, really how can you possibly get off the hook after you've deliberately killed s...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Real Pulp Fiction: ARGOSY'S dilemma, Oct. 28, 1939

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I n this week's Argonotes pages we find an editorial confession that bears quoting at length: If you are running a magazine concerned...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

DAY OF THE SIEGE (2012)

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I n the U.S. Renzo Martinelli's would-be epic has the title of a generic war film. That probably infuriated a director who opened the fi...
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

DVR Diary: RIFFRAFF (1936)

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J. Walter Ruben's M-G-M film is a Jean Harlow starring vehicle but it seems like a Spencer Tracy type of movie. Tracy was still new at ...