Now that Thanksgiving is over and we’re all slowly regaining consciousness from that last serving of turkey stuffing, The Retro Set wanted to spend the remaining moments of November 2014 with a much-belated salute to Noirvember. Chances […]
It’s become part of the American conversation to joke about the dysfunction and awkwardness that holidays and family gatherings foster. From SNL’s Drunk Uncle to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, these familiar and familial archetypes are well […]
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 […]
Chances are you’ve heard one of Miklós Rózsa’s famed musical scores. After all, he is a three-time Academy Award winning composer for his work on the films Spellbound (1945), A Double Life (1947), and Ben […]
This week’s entry in our Saturday Morning Cartoons series looks at another animated Thanksgiving feast, this time from the zany crew at Warner Bros.: a Porky Pig/Daffy Duck pairing that finds Daffy at his goofy […]
Not long ago I was watching Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, which I’ve watched multiple times—not because I feel it is necessarily a great film, but because few modern films have so accurately pinpointed the look […]
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