Tuesday, March 31, 2015

CARDINAL RICHELIEU (1935)

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Irresistible historical nonsense from Victorian melodramatist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, still known from THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII. (And...
Monday, March 30, 2015

THE MIND READER (1933)

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‘Con Man falls for Mark’ in this Warner Bros. programmer that should have been better. It starts well enough with well-cast Warren William...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

UN MALEDETTO IMBROGLIO / THE FACTS OF MURDER (1959)

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Pietro Germi co-wrote, directed & stars in this finely observed crime drama made just before his international breakthru with DIVORCE I...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

EX-LADY (1933)

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After fifteen film roles in two years, Bette Davis was upped to star-billing for this poorly received retread of ILLICIT/’31, an early Talk...
Friday, March 27, 2015

METEOR

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Samuel Z. Arkoff, legendary schlockmeister of American International Pictures, was never so bad as when he tried to be good. And he’s real...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

THE WET PARADE (1932)

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Director Victor Fleming had yet to shed that musty early-Talkies’ rhythm when he started this prestige item for M-G-M, a historical pageant...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (2014)

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This bald-faced attempt to peel off some of the goodwill (and hefty commercial success) of THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL/’11 plops an Indi...
Monday, March 23, 2015

LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT (1933)

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Pre-Code meller has Barbara Stanwyck playing gun moll to Lyle Talbot & his gang of bank robbers. She plays up to the armed guard while...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

THE LONG GOODBYE (1973)

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Long established as a major achievement from Robert Altman’s early ‘70s hot streak (rightly so), it’s easy to forget the initial resentmen...