Thursday, January 26, 2023

The Case Against Brooklyn (1958)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆ The Case Against Brooklyn (1958) – P. Wendkos Based on a true story, Darren McGavin plays the rookie cop who is assigned to go und...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Argentina, 1985 (2022)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆  ½ Argentina, 1985 (2022) – S. Mitre Whenever I see Argentinian star Ricardo Darín (such as in Nine Queens, 2000; The Aura, 2005; ...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Woman on the Run (1950)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆  ½ Woman on the Run (1950) – N. Foster Above average noir, recently restored with the assistance of Eddie Muller’s Film Noir Found...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆  ½ The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022) – P. McKay & J. D. Payne The pull of J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy universe i...
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...