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.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Pre-Code Parade: SINNERS' HOLIDAY (1930)

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P receding Little Caesar into theaters by several weeks, John G. Adolfi's Sinners' Holiday arguably marks the beginning not only...

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Bud Spencer (1929-2016)

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C arlo Pedersoli was an Olympic swimmer as a young man. With that background he could have been a Tarzan of the movies. Instead, as he gre...

Saturday, June 25, 2016

On the Big Screen: FREE STATE OF JONES (2016)

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G ary Ross's film presents Newton Knight as an American Robin Hood, a folk hero Americans should have known better. It leaves you won...

Monday, June 20, 2016

DVR Diary: RAMPAGE AT APACHE WELLS (Der Ölprinz, 1965)

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W innetou, Karl May's Apache hero, had a number of white friends in his fictional career. Taking his cue from such American heroes a...

Saturday, June 18, 2016

DVR Diary: HILLBILLYS IN A HAUNTED HOUSE (1967)

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F rom the director of The Devil Bat and The Abbott & Costello Show comes a film that lives in infamy as the humiliating final film o...

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

DVR Diary: ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1931)

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I n 2015 Alexander Hamilton was reintroduced to pop culture in phenomenal fashion by Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning hip-hop musical...

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Sunday, June 12, 2016

DVR Diary: BLOODY MAMA (1970)

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I magine Christopher Nolan making a Batman movie and casting an actor from the 1966 TV show as the villain -- as the same villain he or sh...

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