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, January 31, 2015

HUK! (1956)

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I n 1944 the United States liberated the Philippines, two years after the Japanese liberated the archipelago from nearly 50 years of Ameri...

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

DVR Diary: TEXAS (1941)

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S peaking of the wave of 1939 westerns, George Marshall's Destry Rides Again was the Stagecoach of comedy westerns. It's still my ...

Sunday, January 25, 2015

DVR Diary: THE OKLAHOMA KID (1939)

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P eople will still tell you that John Ford's Stagecoach revived the western as an "A" genre in the golden year of 1939, but...

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

DVR Diary: FLIGHT OF THE LOST BALLOON (1961)

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R ay Harryhausen is generally regarded as the principal auteur of most of the films for which he created his iconic stop-motion visual ef...

Sunday, January 18, 2015

On the Big Screen: AMERICAN SNIPER (2014)

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T he biggest omission in American Sniper may be American Sniper itself. Nothing in Clint Eastwood's film, apart from the end credits, ...

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Pre-Code Parade: HELL'S HIGHWAY (1932)

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W hile Warner Bros.' I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang quickly entered the canon of American cinema, RKO's rival chain-gang pict...

Monday, January 12, 2015

INTIMATE ENEMIES (L'Ennemi Intime, 2007)

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F rance has had a problem with Muslims dating back to the Battle of Tours, when Charles Martel repelled Islam from the high-water mark of it...

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