Sunday, February 21, 2016

Short Takes: Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Hail, Caesar!

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens I have to say up front that I didn't expect to enjoy the J.J. Abrams re-boot of the legendary Star W...
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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Underrated Gem: Freud (The Secret Passion)

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In 1962, director John Huston's  Freud (a.k.a,  The Secret Passion ) was released by Universal Pictures to near universal disdain. Starr...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Blake Edwards' S.O.B. and the Year 1981

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Sometimes there's a year in your life that is a "game changer" - a year when so much happens so quickly that you can't beg...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Short Takes: Trumbo and The Danish Girl

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I saw Trumbo , the new film about blacklisted screenwriter, Communist, and well-known Hollywood liberal, Dalton Trumbo , at the old Magi...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Crush of the Week: Rita Hayworth, The Lonely Love Goddess

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When she died in 1986, there is a good chance Rita Hayworth didn't know who she was. The Love Goddess of the 1940s and 50s was a victim ...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

The Professionals: MGM's Robert Z. Leonard

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Robert Z. Leonard was an MGM house director for more than thirty years. Like most of the filmmakers who toiled under Leo the Lion's pow...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Underrated Gem: Douglas Sirk's There's Always Tomorrow

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Douglas Sirk is rightly regarded today as the leading exponent of the so-called women's pictures of the 1950s. He's best remembered...