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Safe At Home Blu-Ray Round-Up
With the world turned topsy-turvy over COVID-19, now might be the best time to catch up with some of the latest Blu-ray releases of classic and foreign films. Here are ten capsule reviews of new […]
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New Year! New Blu-Ray Round-Up!
A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) (Criterion Collection, Spine #970) ★★★★½ When I first saw Elia Kazan’s A Face in the Crowd over five years ago, I wrote in my journal that the film, while […]
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A Doll’s House of Horrors: THE PSYCHOPATH
Most of those involved in the making of The Psychopath could scarcely be considered a household name. Their aggregate horror credentials, on the other hand, while likewise unfamiliar (for the most part), are also undeniably […]
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The Reason Why There’s NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH
There’s precisely one sequence in No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948), St John Legh Clowes’ grisly gangster film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s novel, where the stars align and everything comes perfectly together. It happens […]
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Can You Make It Through THE MAZE?
Executive producer Walter Mirisch was among the first to see the cinematic potential of Maurice Sandoz’s 1945 novel, “The Maze.” “The most interesting thing about the book,” he said, “was that it had been illustrated […]
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The Good, The Bad and The Eli Wallach Show
Let’s get one thing out of the way here: I’ve never been a big fan of Westerns. Something about their stories just felt repetitive, so they never resonated with me growing up, or even once […]