Saturday, June 30, 2018

EDGE OF ETERNITY (1959)

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T he main selling point for Don Siegel's thriller was that  it was shot, in Cinemascope, on location at the Grand Canyon. This was pro...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

DVR Diary: UP TO HIS EARS (Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine, 1965)

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W hoever wrote the introduction for the recent Turner Classic Movies broadcast of Philippe de Broca's film was determined to categoriz...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Too Much TV: LOST IN SPACE (2018 - ?)

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A s a kid, I hated Lost in Space. I pretty much hated all those silly shows from the mid-Sixties that dominated syndicated TV when I was gr...
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018

THE TROJAN HORSE (La guerra di Troia, 1961)

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I n the absence of a definitive beginning-to-end narrative of the Trojan War, writers ever since have told the story to suit themselves. G...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Too Much TV: THE TERROR (2018)

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B ack in the 1980s I remember seeing lurid, grimly fascinating photographs of dead crewmembers of the Franklin expedition, exhumed from Arct...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

Too Much TV: KRYPTON (2018 - ?)

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I nspired at least in part on the Gotham show's premise that the breeding ground of a hero is of inherent interest even before the hero...
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Saturday, May 26, 2018

Too Much TV: FAHRENHEIT 451 (2018)

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W ith all the talent involved it's stunning how bad the new version of Ray Bradbury's dystopian classic is, but 2018 is probably bot...