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Film Review: HIGH-BALLIN' (1978, Peter Carter)
Stars: 3 of 5.Running Time: 97 minutes.Notable Cast or Crew: Written by Paul F. Edwards (V, NORTH AND SOUTH), Richard Robinson (PIRANHA, KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS, and Stephen Schneck (INSIDE OUT, WELCOME...
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#3 MEN AND A BABY (1987, Leonard Nimoy)THE 3 MUSKETEERS (1973, Richard Lester)7 DAYS IN MAY (1964, John Frankenheimer)12 ANGRY MEN (1957, Sidney Lumet)13 FRIGHTENED GIRLS! (1963, William Castle)13...
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Film Review: LAST EMBRACE (1979, Jonathan Demme)
Stars: 3.5 of 5.Running Time: 102 minutes.Notable Cast or Crew: Roy Scheider (JAWS, ALL THAT JAZZ, MARATHON MAN), Janet Margolin (ANNIE HALL, GHOSTBUSTERS II), John Glover (52 PICK-UP, BATMAN AND...
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Only now does it occur to me... BLOOD BATH
Only now does it occur to me... that Sid Haig has played basically every ethnicity, at one time or another.BLOOD BATH is a fairly terrible, but fairly watchable Roger Corman clusterfuck with an...
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Only now does it occur to me... RANCHO NOTORIOUS
Only now does it occur to me... that even within the confines of a 50s studio Western, Fritz Lang still found ways to work in Expressionistic flourish.He always loved to "suggest" murder when...
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Only now does it occur to me... THE LONGSHOT
Only now does it occur to me... that in one of his films, Paul Bartel once slipped in a cameo appearance worthy of old 'Hitch himself!THE LONGSHOT's not too great a movie– it's a Zany with a capital...
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Film Review: EYES OF LAURA MARS (1978, Irvin Kershner)
Stars: 3.5 of 5.Running Time: 104 minutes.Notable Cast or Crew: Faye Dunaway (NETWORK, BONNIE & CLYDE), Tommy Lee Jones (ROLLING THUNDER, THE PARK IS MINE!), Raul Julia (THE ADDAMS FAMILY, STREET...
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Only now does it occur to me... EMPIRE OF PASSION
Only now does it occur to me... that renowned Japanese arthouse maverick, shrimp tempura fan, and Criterion Collection favorite Nagisa Oshima (IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES, MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE,...
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Only now does it occur to me... FIRE AND ICE
Only now does it occur to me... that Susan Tyrrell, one of the most fearless, talented, and outrageous performers of her (or any other) generation, is the voice of the evil Queen Juliana in Ralph...
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Film Review: BUNNY O'HARE (1971, Gerd Oswald)
Stars: 1.5 of 5.Running Time: 102 minutes.Notable Cast or Crew: Bette Davis (DARK VICTORY, ALL ABOUT EVE), Ernest Borgnine (FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK), John Astin (THE ADDAMS FAMILY,...
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Only now does it occur to me... EVA
Only now does it occur to me... that there are monsters out there, human monsters, and they're actively wasting the talents of Michael Ironside.EVA is a laughably bad World War II movie with...
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Only now does it occur to me... THE MACKINTOSH MAN
Only now does it occur to me... that wonderfully pompous acting genius James Mason has admitted said pomposity, on camera.It occurs during the final five minutes of John Huston's mostly-phoned-in,...
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Book Review: THREE BAD MEN: JOHN FORD, JOHN WAYNE, WARD BOND (2013, Scott...
I'm a longtime fan of John Ford (who isn't, really?), the patron-saint of Monument Valley, born-again Irishman, and director of some of the best-constructed, most thoughtful films to come out of...
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Film Review: LIONHEART (1990, Sheldon Lettich)
Stars: 4.5 of 5.Running Time: 105 minutes.Notable Cast or Crew: Written by Jean-Claude Van Damme, S.N. Warren, and Sheldon Lettich (RAMBO III, BLOODSPORT). Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison...
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Only now does it occur to me... MY CRASY LIFE
Only now does it occur to me... that French arthouse director and Jean-Luc Godard crony Jean-Pierre Gorin's 1992 documentary on Samoan street gangs in Long Beach features the voice of accomplished...
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Only now does it occur to me... THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE
Only now does it occur to me... that Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton were good 'ole boy soldier cronies back in 1983, three years before ALIENS.Based on a novel by Pat Conroy that I read for a high...
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Television Review: QUICKSILVER HIGHWAY (1997, Mick Garris)
Stars: 2 of 5.Running Time: 90 minutes.Notable Cast or Crew: Christopher Lloyd (BACK TO THE FUTURE, CLUE), Matt Frewer (MAX HEADROOM, HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS), Raphael Sbarge (RISKY BUSINESS,...
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Only now does it occur to me... FOXES
Only now does it occur to me...Okay, three things.#1. Continuing the Adrian Lyne rewatch (as previously glimpsed in silly observations on FLASHDANCE, UNFAITHFUL, and INDECENT PROPOSAL), I took a...
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Junta Juleil's 900th Post!
I don't know, it kinda feels like a big deal. That's a helluva lot of posts about stuff like Mandom aftershave and Carpy and Ironside and POV shots in Italian horror movies and Golan n' Globus and the...
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Only now does it occur to me... JUBAL
Only now does it occur to me... that my lifelong dream to see Charles Bronson throw a table at Ernest Borgnine would one day be realized!Sheer visual poetry! And from the freeze-framing, it looks...
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