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.

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Pre-Code Parade: DOUGHBOYS (1930)

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B uster Keaton reportedly liked Doughboys , his second talking feature, the best of his pictures for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Keaton fans real...

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Sunday, August 25, 2019

On the Big Screen: ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD (2019)

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T he ninth film by Quentin Tarantino has become slightly controversial for a bit of historic revisionism. It appears to assert that Bruce ...

Saturday, August 10, 2019

Pre-Code Parade: PEACH O'RENO (1931)

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Indignant Matron: How can you look me in the face? Robert Woolsey: Well, I guess I've gotten used to it. --- O nce upon a t...

Sunday, August 4, 2019

DVR Diary: L'AINE DES FERCHAUX (1963)

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A lso known as "Doom Magnet" and "An Honorable Young Man," Jean-Pierre Melville's first color film is widely regar...

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

DEVIL'S EXPRESS (Gang Wars, 1976)

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F irst-time director Barry Rosen bet on a Seventies genre trifecta by making a blaxploitation martial-arts horror film, and while I wouldn...

Friday, July 26, 2019

LIGHTNING BOLT (Operazione Goldman, 1966)

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T he American title of Antonio Margheriti's Eurospy film presumably has "lightning" in its title because the James Bond film...

Thursday, July 11, 2019

LEGACY OF SATAN (1972)

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I nside every porno filmmaker, I suppose, is an aspiring mainstream director. The pay is better and you're not as bound by genre conve...

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