Tuesday, March 31, 2026

PRETTY BABY (1950)

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While the game looks lost before the credits finish, hard-hitting Warners hardly the studio for farcical workplace rom-com, a bit of patienc...
Monday, March 30, 2026

THE BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW (1971)

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Best known for directing the original mini-series of PENNIES FROM HEAVEN/’78, Piers Haggard’s early folk-horror feature is both seriously cr...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

L’AGE D’OR (1930)

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By now, the main shock in Luis Buñuel’s early surrealist film is how unshocking it is.  Or rather, that its shocks need explanation.  Like a...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

LEFT-HANDED GIRL / ZUOPIEZI NUHAI (2025)

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First solo-directing gig for the left-hand girl of ANORA/’24, one half of filmmaking partners Shih-Ching Tsou & Sean Baker.  Here they s...
Friday, March 27, 2026

NIGHTMARE CASTLE / AMANTI D'OLTRETOMBA (1965)

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Genre hopping Italian director Mario Caiano, busy with low-ball Sword & Sandal epics and early Spaghetti Westerns in his first films, br...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

ATTILA MARCEL (2013)

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Sui generis French animator Sylvain Chomet (THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE/’03; THE ILLUSIONIST/’10) has just released his first animated featu...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

OPERAZIONE SAN GENNARO / THE TREASURE OF SAN GENNARO (1966)

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When on form, Italian director Dino Risi and Hollywood’s Blake Edwards show remarkably similar filmmaking gifts & styles.  (When bad, th...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

F1: THE MOVIE (2025)

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Gotta give producer Jerry Bruckheimer (or one of this film’s thirty-three producers!) credit for truth in advertising with that title.  Not ...
Monday, March 23, 2026

THE MIRACLE RIDER (1935)

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In the last decade of the silents, Tom Mix was, by some distance, the biggest of all cowboy stars.  Hardly remembered now, Talkies (and age)...