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Year: 2017

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LOST LA: Dream Factory

Dec 19, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0

I’m a nut for L.A. history, and when that history melds with the early days of Hollywood, I’m in 100%. So I was very excited to screen LOST LA: The Dream Factory.  Most confounding, was my […]

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THEY LIVE BY NIGHT Has a Life of Its Own

Nov 15, 2017 Andy Ross 0

From the moment the RKO logo fades out, 1948’s They Live By Night doesn’t display the typical Noir trappings its title would lead you to believe. We see a prologue of our leads, Bowie & […]

Movies

Happy Accidents With THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST

Nov 10, 2017 Cassie Brown 0

Love is no accident. That’s what Macon Leary comes to find when he meets Muriel Pritchett. No matter how hard Macon tries, he could have never planned the events that unfold when he’s forced to […]

Movies

Skip ‘Round THE ROUNDERS

Oct 30, 2017 Jacquie Allen 0

The Rounders is a comedy-western starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda, based on a novel by Max Evans. Ford and Fonda respectively play Ben and ‘Howdy,’ two cowboys who make a living rounding up and […]

Movies

Terror and Horror from Undercrank

Oct 25, 2017 Nathanael Hood 0

In his seminal “Danse Macabre,” Stephen King defined the difference between Terror and Horror, two terms long mistaken for simple synonyms. “Terror,” he explains, “comes from suspense, the creeping feeling of knowing a monster is […]

Movies

BEING THERE In 1979 and Being Here in 2017

Oct 23, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0

Peter Sellers was by all accounts, including his own, a cipher; an empty vessel that didn’t just inhabit roles, the spirit of his characters inhabited him. Whether Middle Eastern, a cockney, a Bohemian intellect, a […]

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