...and I'm over here wasting my time with Joe Fu**ing Swanberg. What is it, exactly, that I've fu**ing done wrong with my life?Believe it or not, Greg F**king Gutfeld has…
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Took me forever to get a copy of the Sony "The Films Of Michael Powell" double-feature DVD. Didn't get the review copy, and Sony apparently didn't initially manufacture enough to…
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Sylvia Pinal as Satan as Jesus in Simon of the Desert, Bunuel, 1965"Thank God I'm an atheist," the great director Luis Bunuel was fond of repeating in his later years,…
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Rose Hobart (yes, that one) regards good-for-nothing Charles Farrell in Borzage's Liliom, 1930. One of the near-inexhaustible pleasures/opportunities for discovery provided by the Murnau, Borzage and Fox box set is Liliom,…
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This is my contribution to the Early Hawks blogathon. Thanks to Laszlo Szabo for inspiration. In Joseph McBride's indespensible Hawks on Hawks, its subject, Howard, reflects on the narrative function…
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Well, the reviews are in, and my mom is gonna kill me. "...kudos to Kenny, who plays gross, sleazy and deeply creepy with immaculate perfection."—Devin Faraci, CHUD. "...Glenn Kenny as one of…
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