Back before the days of "Iron Chef", "Masterchef" and "Hell’s Kitchen", television’s top food expert was a very tall, slightly ungainly, woman who sounded a little drunk. She was Julia…
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Apologies for the light posting. I've been operating under the spell of what I might call a jag lately. Not a chemical jag, but a creative one. Perhaps I'll be…
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...and it's a family affair in Pedro Costa's still-incredible 1980 1989 feature debut O Sangue (Blood), now out in a gorgeous UK DVD from Second Run. This one-time Costa sceptic, now…
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So I was out and about earlier today, hanging at my favorite street-date-violating DVD emporium, discussing the State of Things with a friend of mine whose generation is at least…
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For context, see here. Farber: "Sam Fuller's jagged, suspenseful, off-beat variant of the Mauldin cartoon, expanded into a full-length Korean battle movie without benefit of the usual newsreel clips. Funny,…
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Four films are on the agenda this week and only time will tell this early in the season whether they are going to be genuine title contenders, gritty battlers hoping…
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