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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

The Revenge Job

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For me, personally, when it comes to the cat-and-mouse genre, I'm a snob, and nothing less than The Day of the Jackal will do, and mayb...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

Duck Cassidy and the Trichinosis Kid

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Of course, for a maniac like me, I'm used to cartoon Westerns such as the Tex Avery stuff for MGM, and that one Bob Clampett one where...

Auteur Watch - Ivan Dixon

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Sadly, Mr. Dixon has passed on to that great Director's Guild in the sky, where D. W. Griffith and Ed Wood are still playing that epic g...

S. W.

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Now available in hardback! ...oh, right.  Normally, this is where I talk about the box office.  Almost forgot to do that.  Well, I was onl...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Porky in Remakeland

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See now, for someone like me, it's Porky in Wackyland or nothing.  Maybe if I saw Dough for the Do-Do first, of course, I'd thin...
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Auteur Watch - Vin Diesel

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...oh, please.  Well, as that old saying goes, everyone wants to direct.  And just as Spielberg calls himself a "TV director" with...

Star Wars - The Box Office Awakens

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I'm assuming that all of Hollywood is waiting with baited breath.  Accountants are busy working overtime, crunching the numbers, and J. ...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

What Makes Daffy Duck

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I'm telling you, you young'uns out there!  You're living in a golden age of video, especially and particularly if you purchase...

Auteur Watch - Damon Diddit

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With the help of a co-director , that is.

Hijacking Hollywood

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The final installment of The Hunger Games closes at #1, but it limped over the finish line, frankly.  Still, better than the last Harry Pot...
Sunday, December 06, 2015

What's Opera, Doc?

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Rabbit of Seville is a fun one.  Think of it, of course, as a warm-up to the much celebrated What's Opera, Doc?   I once saw the Seat...

Auteur Watch - Ernest Dickerson

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For some reason, I'm put in mind of the latest attack on the dreamers.  I hate to quarrel with Stephen Colbert... but I guess he'll ...

Krampy Holidays

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The Hunger Games saga is still tops this weekend, bug sirprise... big surprise.  The Cineplex is crowded this weekend!  The only fresh sa...
Thursday, December 03, 2015

Short Reviews - December 2015

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The Bachelor - Well, I hate to say it, but... Chris O'Donnell's clearly no Buster Keaton. Hellhole - Girl, get me out of this....
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Team of Enemies

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I don't get it!  How come I'm not profiling Tom Turk and Daffy ?  Well, for one thing, it's not on the first five DVDs in my c...

Auteur Watch - Manthia Diawara

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Gesundheit. Well, shame on me for being so flip, so facetious.  But I just absolutely hate these Ivory Tower eggheads , up in their ivory t...

Happy Thanksgiving from The Hunger Games

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In movie-type news, Jesse Eisenberg is lighting a small fire in the world of fiction.  He apparently wrote a piece for The New Yorker.  I...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Dept. of Wacky Wildlife

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Wabbit Twouble is, of course, one of the unquestioned Bugs classics.  In the old VCR days, I spent what seemed like a great many hours re...

Auteur Watch - Bob Delegall

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Kewl!  Just like Monty DeGraff, Bob Delegall has a French name, meaning "of the Gall."... something like that.  Sadly, he shook...

Secret in their (Box Office) Receipts

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Damn.  Just saw that Jennifer Lawrence's latest film is at #1, but I think my point here's still valid.  For one thing, they were ...
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