Monday, November 18, 2024
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) at 50
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974; Tobe Hooper) never showed in my hometown when it was released in 1974. The closest it ever came was a ...
RELIGION AND POLITICS: HERETIC (2024) and CONCLAVE (2024)
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Unlike Barbarian, Cuckoo, Longlegs and even Alien: Romulus, the startlingly effective Heretic is in the game not for the shocks (though th...
BURN AFTER READING (2008) REVISITED
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When I saw it in its original theatrical release back in 2008, I thought Burn After Reading was brutally hilarious— as far as I could tell,...
FROM THE ARCHIVES (11/2021): 1941, FOR JII-JII
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We laid my father-in-law to rest three years ago this month, and I am reminded of something that happened just a few months before we lost...
FROM THE ARCHIVES (11/15/20): FRANCESCO ROSI'S CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI (1979)
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I’m currently 64 years old, and though I still have an alarming collection of blind spots in my experience, I have seen a lot of movies i...
FROM THE ARCHIVES (11/16/13): IF YOU COULD ONLY COOK and THE LAST ACTION HERO
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Woke up feeling kinda crummy this morning-- first inklings of a winter cold to go along with the delightfully gloomy weather outside today...
Sunday, August 04, 2024
MAXXXINE (2024)
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With X (2022) and then Pearl (2022), writer-director Ti West ( The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers ) rather unexpectedly initiated a ...
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