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, April 30, 2016

Pre-Code Parade: HOLD 'EM JAIL! (1932)

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T he title of Norman Taurog's comedy plays on Hold 'Em Yale , a popular play that was made into a 1928 movie. A comedy that begins...

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

DVR Diary: FOUR BAGS FULL (La Traversée de Paris, 1956)

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F ilmed only a dozen years after Paris was liberated from the Nazis, Claude Autant-Lara's film must have seemed shockingly irreverent ...

Sunday, April 24, 2016

DVR Diary: BLACK MAGIC (1949)

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O rson Welles finished so few of his own directorial projects that fans look hopefully -- or forlornly -- for signs of the great man's...

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

CHAPPIE (2015)

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N eill Blomkamp's Chappie is one of the most archetypally dense films I've seen in a while. It pretty much touches all the bases ...

Saturday, April 16, 2016

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)

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G eorge Lucas's mistake was to think of Star Wars as a fictional universe to be shaped by his imagination. At least that was his first...

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

DVR Diary: STRAY DOG (1949)

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I t doesn't surprise me that when Akira Kurosawa made a cop movie, he was influenced less by American film noirs than by Jules Dassin...

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Saturday, April 9, 2016

Pre-Code Parade: SIDE SHOW (1931)

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T his Roy Del Ruth comedy has one of the most transgressive images in Pre-Code cinema, at least in retrospect. It's Winnie Lightner, W...

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