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, August 31, 2015

Wes Craven (1939-2015)

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W ithout necessarily being a great filmmaker, Craven was a historic figure in the horror genre. What set him apart from other horror directo...

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Pre-Code Parade: DOWNSTAIRS (1932)

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A t Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in the death throes of his stardom, Buster Keaton pitched what he thought might be a career-saving story idea. ...

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Pre-Code Parade: WATERLOO BRIDGE (1931)

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1931 was a busy year for Mae Clarke. She had dues to pay on screen. Among other things, she had to take a grapefruit in the face from Ja...

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Pre-Code Parade: FAST WORKERS (1933)

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F rom 1930 through 1933 it seemed that every John Gilbert film promised a "new" Gilbert. What this means was nothing was working f...

Thursday, August 20, 2015

DVR Diary: Akira Kurosawa's SCANDAL (1950)

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Y ou sometimes hear it said about Akira Kurosawa that, as a Japanese director, he somehow wasn't Japanese enough. Some critics feel they...

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

DVR Diary: THE EXILE (1947)

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I t's hard not to believe that Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Max Ophuls didn't appreciate where they were, which was Universal Studios, ...

Saturday, August 15, 2015

On the Big Screen: FANTASTIC FOUR (2015)

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T he Marvel Age of Comics, as Stan Lee called it, began in 1961 with his and Jack Kirby's answer to DC Comics's Justice League of...

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