A little background: I've alluded to my band, Artificial Intelligence, on this blog before, most expansively here; in the wake of the engagement described in the linked post, the personnel…
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As they say in the movies, "It's quiet... too quiet." Yeah, sorry about that but I've had a lot on recently. Here's the deal. In October last year (2013 if…
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Don't get too excited. The Protector 2, from which the above still is derived, and which I review at RogerEbert.com, is pretty bad. And Rhatha Phongam doesn't figure in it as…
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Virginia Leith in Violent Saturday, Richard Fleischer, 1955. I got so terribly excited by the new Eureka! blu-ray disc of this ineffable thriller that I just had to post a…
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Robert Montgomery in They Were Expendable, John Ford, 1945. Writing of the movie's lukewarm critical and box office reception in his indispensible new book Five Came Back, Mark Harris observes,…
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This account contains some plot details, although I've tried to portray those details, and their import, as obliquely as possible. I wouldn't call them "spoilers" but you never can tell…
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