Saturday, November 30, 2019

THE LITTLE GIANT (1933)

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Edward G. Robinson caught a break from the ethnic heavies he’d been playing at Warners in this modest charmer. He’s still a mug who strong...
Friday, November 29, 2019

SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (1970)

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Oddly watchable horror mash-up ineptly juggles multi-pronged storylines to inexplicably compelling effect. What starts as a police procedu...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

THE FOURTH WAR (1990)

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Career lows for just about everyone on this Cold War battle between Colonels Roy Scheider (in his last mainstream lead*) and DAS BOOT’s J...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

THE CIRCUS (1928)

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From any other screen comedian, THE CIRCUS would be hailed a masterpiece, a one-stop ticket to Film Pantheon status: Silent Slapstick divis...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

THE CONSTANT NYMPH (1943)

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Third time ‘round for this rather sticky liebestod between a classical composer in career crisis (Charles Boyer) and the besotted teenage ...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

DOWN THREE DARK STREETS (1954)

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Dreary low-budget FBI ‘procedural’ sees Broderick Crawford solve the murder of fellow agent Kenneth Tobey by looking into the three cases h...
Friday, November 22, 2019

ROME EXPRESS (1932)

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Intrigue-packed stuck-on-a-train British thriller, technically sharp & well directed for the period by Walter Forde, but with the lion’...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

SHARKEY'S MACHINE (1981)

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Still a major star, but off his ‘70s peak, this Burt Reynolds cop drama was designed as a prestige project, a reunion with DELIVERANCE dire...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

THE GOLDEN ARROW (1962)

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With his career in free-fall after aging out of Teen Idol status, then seeing his eponymous tv sit-com canceled after a year, Tab Hunter, s...