Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Herschell Gordon Lewis's prophecy

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"I f you live long enough you become legitimate," Herschell Gordon Lewis said sometime in the 21st century. By then Lewis, who di...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Serial Pulp: THE SPIDER'S WEB (1938), Chapter Eight: WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS

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T he Spider lay unconscious between two closing electrified gates as Chapter Seven ended. As Chapter Eight begins he effects a clever esca...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

A WAR (Krigen, 2015)

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T he team of writer-director Tobias Lindholm and star Pilou Asbaek resume the war on terror in their follow-up to 2012's Kapringen ( ...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Serial Pulp: THE SPIDER'S WEB (1938), Chapter 7: Shadows of the Night

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A fter an inexcusable delay we return to the cinematic exploits of Richard Wentworth, Norvell Page's epic pulp crimefighter better kno...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Pre-Code Parade: BEYOND VICTORY (1931)

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A troubled production from the last days of the Pathe studio, before its merger with RKO Pictures, John S. Robertson's Beyond Victo...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

THE PRESIDENT (2014)

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M ohsen Makhmalbaf is one of a great generation of Iranian directors, some of whom have found filmmaking difficult in the Islamic Republic...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

On the Big Screen: SULLY (2016)

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I t might have taken Frank Capra to do full justice to Chesley Sullenberger's saga as imagined by Clint Eastwood and screenwriter Tom ...
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