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HOUR OF THE GUN Files the Legend, Prints the Fact

Jul 30, 2018 Nathanael Hood 0

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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Never Won an Oscar: The Actors

Feb 18, 2015 Jill Blake 3

With the Academy Awards ceremony coming up this Sunday, February 22, we decided to take a look at some of the best actors and actresses who never won an Oscar for their acting talents. In this gallery, […]

shoot-out at medicine bend
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Less Bullets, More Brains in SHOOT-OUT AT MEDICINE BEND (1957)

Dec 19, 2014 Wade Sheeler 0

By Wade Sheeler Director Richard L. Bare may not have a cult following, but he should. First of all, the guy is 101 years old, born in 1913 and still kickin’. He directed virtually every […]

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DVD Review: Fire in the Sky

Sep 4, 2013 Drew Morton 1

I can remember being ten years old and riding my bike to the local video store to pick up Robert Lieberman’s alien abduction film Fire in the Sky (1993).  I was obsessed with aliens at the time, […]

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TANK (1984): We’re Not Gonna Take It

Aug 28, 2013 The Retro Set 1

This post is a very late contribution to the Summer Under the Stars Blogathon hosted by The Black Maria’s very own Jill Blake, and by Michael Nazarewycz of Scribe Hard On Film, which today spotlighted […]

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Blu-ray Review: The Great Escape

Aug 9, 2013 Jill Blake 1

John Sturges’ The Great Escape tells the true story of the daring prison break attempt at the German Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in March 1944.

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