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About Drew Morton
Drew Morton is an Assistant Professor of Mass Communication. While his students call him “Doctor” or “Dr. Drew,” he is unable to help people suffering from medical ailments (he can only prescribe films) or from sexual dysfunction (although he can be quick with a double entendre). His film criticism has appeared in Cultural Transmogrifier, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Pajiba.
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Sam Peckinpah’s THE KILLER ELITE (1975)

Nov 25, 2014 Drew Morton 0

Sam Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite (1975) sounds like a winner on paper:  James Caan and Robert Duvall in a revenge thriller/spy movie?  The film’s first forty minutes place the film on an extremely strong foundation.  The two […]

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The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: OUT OF THE PAST on Blu-Ray

Sep 4, 2014 Drew Morton 0

By DREW MORTON Five years ago, I wrote a retrospective on film noir for Pajiba by honing down my favorite film genre (or movement or mode – depending on who you’re talking to) to the Top Five […]

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“Last Time I Was Here, People Were Getting Bombed a Different Way!”: John Wayne in Brannigan

Aug 18, 2014 Drew Morton 0

By DREW MORTON The embodiment of America – John Wayne – plays a fish out of water Chicago police detective sent to London to extradite a gangster (John Vernon) in Brannigan (1975).  The film is essentially one of […]

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The Process of Play: THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO and THUNDERBIRD 6

Jun 19, 2014 Drew Morton 0

By Drew Morton It is the summer of 1996.  I’m twelve years old and I’m standing in our driveway with my brother, my cousins, and a boxy VHS camcorder mounted on a tripod.  We’ve just […]

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My Kind of Movie: Baroque Noir and His Kind of Woman (1951)

May 28, 2014 Drew Morton 0

In his book Hollywood Genres, film scholar Thomas Schatz mobilizes an evolutionary model to describe film genres. For simplicity sake, Schatz posits that a genre essentially moves from classical to baroque in its style and conventions […]

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A MacGuffin of a Melodrama: James Gray’s The Immigrant

May 15, 2014 Drew Morton 0

I spent May of 2013 in Paris, shacking up in a friend’s apartment near the Bastille while he was at the Cannes Film Festival.  I had been fetishizing such a Parisian vacation for almost a […]

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