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Month: September 2016

Movies

Forget it, Cutter: it’s America.

Sep 28, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

It started as an excuse; a convenient, believable explanation that justified the wounded ego of a wounded army vet. I doubt if Alex Cutter (John Heard) truly believed that his friend, unsuccessful gigolo Richard Bone […]

Movies

Not So Bad Men of Tombstone

Sep 21, 2016 Sean Barron 0

by Sean Barron When the low-budget producing team, the King brothers, threw their Bad Men of Tombstone hat in an already bloated ring of Westerns in 1948, it didn’t make a whole lot of noise. One […]

Animation

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)

Sep 17, 2016 Brandie Ashe 0

By the summer of 1933, the Fleischer brothers’ self-named animation studio was riding high. Based largely on the success of flapper dream girl Betty Boop, whose risqué series of cartoons became immensely popular in the […]

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Food & Drink

Breakfast at Natalie’s: Natalie Wood’s Huevos Rancheros

Sep 16, 2016 The Retro Set 1

I’m a Southern California girl, born and bred. And lemme tell ya: You can take the girl out of SoCal, but you can’t take the SoCal out of the girl. After having lived everywhere from London […]

Movies

Nineteen Eighty-Four is Here.

Sep 16, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

My last year of high school, I served in the tech crew for the drama club’s production of Into the Woods. My only tasks were to a) pull the trap door lever for the Witch’s […]

Movies

Death is the Ultimate High: Two 70’s Films on Heroin and Sex

Sep 14, 2016 Patrick King 0

Unsurprisingly, in the past few years heroin suppliers have been finding new and innovative ways to kill their clients. From late 2013 and into 2014, there were at least 700 deaths connected to fentanyl-cut heroin. […]

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