B Roll is a weekly column that digs into the deeper cuts and lesser-known films from legendary directors–the good, the bad, and the awesome. This week, writer Nathanael Hood tackles Otto Preminger’s confused and cartoonish Margin For Error. At first […]
Fritz Lang, that great Teutonic genius, is usually characterized by critics and historians as having not one, but two careers. The general consensus seems to suggest that his prewar period working in the German film […]
Let it be known that The Retro Set Earl Christy. And Rolf Armstrong. And McClelland Barclay. And R Wilson Hammell. And Charles Edward Chambers. And Marland Stone. And Charles Gates Sheldon. And all of the other […]
A hunter is tracking his prey through the bush. Past the mist, and weeds, and thick brush, he finally settles on a bluff. He takes his scope out of a bag, attaches it carefully to […]
I’ve been designated to review a fair amount of 1970s – 80s TV movies released recently through Warner Archive Collection, so apologies for always starting with, “…when I was a kid…” but this, for better […]
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