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Scenes from a Marriage
The marital discord in this show is a different animal than those Italian romps with Loren and Mastroianni -- Ingmar Bergman's miniseries…
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Joseph W. Sarno Retrospect Series 4
Let the debate about the incompatibility of film art and screen eroticism commence: Joe Sarno is back! His 1964 Sin in the…
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The Naked Prey
An excellent example of a thriller that improves with age, Cornel Wilde's survival tale is a lean 'n' mean exercise in first-person…
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Tribute to Marty Balin
I couldn’t let the passing of Marty Balin go by without playing all my Jefferson Airplane LPs. They were one of the…
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The Bravados
Gregory Peck slips into vengeance mode full-tilt, riding down a quartet of blackhearted knaves: rapist Stephen Boyd, ambusher Albert Salmi, sneaky Lee…
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Exorcist II: The Heretic
One of the most jeered-at, overcooked sequels of all time thoroughly deserves its reputation as a train wreck of a movie. In…
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The Collector
German-born William Wyler was a storyteller who asked the audience not to understand him too quickly. A notorious perfectionist (Bette Davis credited…
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry's play has been given a masterful film adaptation, with the emotional truth of her words left intact. We're told of…
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Looker
It's always fun to peruse the impressive career of writer-director Michael Crichton, whose brilliant, commercially savvy ideas so often hit the mark.…
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Fathers and Sons
The title of the series for this chapter should be “Movies & Stories” because I share a lot of the movies that…
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Fahrenheit 11/9
This past weekend Michael Moore’s new movie Fahrenheit 11/9, about how the world as we know it in the Trump age came…
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The Cyclops
He's back -- looking meaner and uglier than ever! Bert I. Gordon's early sci-fi effort shapes up as a surprisingly entertaining monster…
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The Mind of Mr. Soames
Amicus tries for class-act science fiction: lifelong coma sleeper Terence Stamp is revived as an 'adult baby' and must be educated in…
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The Dragon Missile (Region B)
Guest reviewer Lee Broughton offers an assessment of one of the Shaw Brothers' quirkier and more idiosyncratic historical martial arts efforts: an…
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The Changeling
The success of 70’s shockers like The Devils, The Exorcist and Alien – grindhouse films in big budget drag – opened the door to…
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The Trip to Bountiful
Horton Foote strikes again, with a warm and thoughtful tale of life as it was lived in East Texas in 1950. Geraldine…
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Death in Small Doses
This '50s drug epic is not about hopheads on dope but working folk frying their brains on amphetamines. Peter Graves' undercover narc…
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The 2 B’s – Bar Mitzvah & Beatles
Most of this episode takes place from 1961 to 1964, three years that shaped a lot of the world view of this…
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My Man Godfrey
For my money this is the brightest, most endearing and wittiest '30s comedy to be given the name 'screwball.' Everyone on screen…
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The Invisible Man Complete Legacy Collection
Paranoid, vengeful, with skin so thin you can see through it, The Invisible Man is the most nakedly neurotic of Universal’s classic…
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The Day of the Jackal
Fred Zinnemann's counter-assassination thriller remains topflight filmmaking, torn from reality and shot through with an unsentimental dose of political realism. Edward Fox's…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
THE MURIEL AWARDS HALL OF FAME, CLASS OF 2018
In its inaugural year, 2005, I began writing for the Muriel Awards, a year-end voting collective dedicated to summing up the year’s…
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Origins
A couple of months back, I posted a Facebook video in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Fillmore East and I…
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Sangaree (3-D)
'3rd Dimension!' 'Technicolor!' Paramount underwent a difficult post-production learning curve getting this early entry in the 3-D craze out the door and…
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The Man Who Cheated Himself
The Film Noir Foundation has helped revive yet another difficult-to-see noir gem -- the murder cover-up tale begins with a shooting in…