Movies
Killer of Men: LAWMAN
It’s a familiar sight. The lone figure emerges from a vast western landscape. Riding high on his mount, he is stoic and directly perceived as determined and competent. In the case of Michael Winner’s Lawman […]
Burt Lancaster
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Lest Ye Be Judged: JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Guest Contributor – Lauren Humphries-Brooks In the opening credits of Stanley Kramer’s 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg, now on Blu-ray from Kino-Lorber, the camera lingers on an image of the swastika atop the Deutsches Stadion, as the […]
Movies
HOUR OF THE GUN Files the Legend, Prints the Fact
In most movies about the infamous 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, the titular shootout serves as the climax—Roger Ebert once famously wrote that in John Ford’s My Darling Clementine (1946), perhaps […]
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The Killers X 2
“The door of Henry’s lunch-room opened and two men came in. They sat down at the counter.” So begins Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 short story “The Killers,” which begat two feature length films, an innumerable amount […]
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Blu-ray Review: Michael Winner’s SCORPIO (1973)
“To dinosaurs,” the two old friends toast in the Vienna hotel. On the nearby table a record player pipes the sound of a Soviet anthem. They should be mortal enemies: the one a CIA hitman […]
Listicles
The Oscars: 21 Moments We’ll Never Forget
Well, it’s that time of year again, folks. The Oscars. Hollywood has been barricaded, Oscar parties are being prepped, ballots have been counted, bets have been placed, and the social media world awaits with snarky fingers eagerly paused […]