Friday, December 30, 2022

Nope (2022)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆  ½ Nope (2022) – J. Peele Jordan Peele’s third directorial outing (after Get Out, 2017, and Us, 2019) is also a genre pic, straddl...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Crimes of the Future (2022)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆  ½ Crimes of the Future (2022) – D. Cronenberg Aiming for, and occasionally attaining, the kind of transgressive feel that he achi...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

The House of Fear (1945)/The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

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☆ ☆ ☆  ½       The House of Fear (1945) – R. W. Neill ☆ ☆ ☆            The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) – A. Werker We watched a She...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Toi… Le Venin (Night is Not for Sleep) (1958)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆ Toi… Le Venin (Night is Not for Sleep) (1958) – R. Hossein Last night, I thought I might have stumbled onto a forgotten French noi...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

T-Men (1947)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆  ½ T-Men (1947) – A. Mann John Alton was one of noir’s great cinematographers and his work on T-Men for director Anthony Mann is a...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Black Widow (1987)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆ Black Widow (1987) – B. Rafelson Debra Winger stars as the Department of Justice investigator who suspects Theresa Russell of marr...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

The Big Clock (1948)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆  ½ The Big Clock (1948) – J. Farrow This film came packaged in a “Universal Noir” DVD boxset (alongside This Gun for Hire, The Gla...