So my labors on a Blu-ray Consumer Guide for October were interrupted by a Playstation 3 issue, e.g., the Blu-ray function of the machine ceased to function, and I was…
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All due respect to Christine Smallwood, whose work I had never encountered before reading her booklet essay for the new and essential Criterion Collection edition of Erle C. Kenton's 1932…
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For the Self Styled Siren. Lauren Bacall's first costume. ("First" in this case meaning with respect to the actual diegetic chronology; the picture actually begins after this scene, which is…
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Two milestones of cinema prominently feature The Trashmen's immortal "Surfin' Bird" on their soundtracks: John Waters' Pink Flamingos and Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. David Frankel's The Big Year, starring,…
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I think Pedro Almodóvar's latest is both kind of difficult and fully remarkable. More in my review of the film for MSN Movies.
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