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At its worst our annual horrorthon is discouraging and exhausting. Subjecting ourselves to a high chance of stinkers and a low chance of great movies takes its toll. For every … Continue Reading Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980) October 8th, 2023
My Dad’s overseen my film education since early childhood. While some parents absentmindedly planted their kids in front of TVs playing any old thing, my Dad took care to curate … Continue Reading The Red Shoes (1948) January 9th, 2021
Bicycle Thieves is the ultimate feel-bad movie. A poor day laborer living in the ghettos of post-war Italy competes against his impoverished neighbors for scant manual labor jobs. He secures … Continue Reading Bicycle Thieves (1948) January 1st, 2021
Ah, mermaid horror, too weird to live too rare to die. The Lure is a loose adaptation of The Little Mermaid fairytale set in modern Poland. Two mermaid sisters venture … Continue Reading The Lure (2015) October 12th, 2020
I love monster movies. Monsters actually created The List. Back then my wife and I decided to watch every movie in the Universal Monsters catalog. At the time a 30 … Continue Reading The Blob (1958) October 12th, 2020
SPOILERS!!! Carnival of Souls is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge story. If you don’t know what that means then you should get off Facebook and go watch The Twilight … Continue Reading Carnival of Souls (1962) October 4th, 2020
The most important aspect of my fledgling quest through cinema history is accepting how many films I’ve never seen and experiencing as many as possible. I hadn’t seen a single … Continue Reading A Ship to India (1947) September 10th, 2020
I still haven’t seen Psycho, North by Northwest, or Rope. I haven’t seen enough Hitchcock to make an unequivocal declaration, but for my money, Rebecca is his best work. I … Continue Reading Rebecca (1940) July 13th, 2020
Of all the words that appropriately describe la Belle et la Bête none more succinctly encapsulates its jaw-dropping perfection than beautiful. Of course it’s an etherial, atmospheric and magical fantasy … Continue Reading le Belle et la Bête (1946) June 20th, 2020
I’ve had nothing but difficulty in trying to come up with something to say about Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 melodramatic spy romance Notorious that’s worth saying. It’s one of those movies … Continue Reading Notorious (1946) June 2nd, 2020
Crisis is a film about learning harsh lessons firsthand. A young woman raised in a provincial town by a surrogate mother moves to the city to work in a shop … Continue Reading Crisis (1946) May 22nd, 2020
Lewis Allen’s 1944 horror The Uninvited, is a near perfect haunted house movie. I thoroughly enjoyed this film and want to avoid spoiling your enjoyment by over explaining the plot … Continue Reading The Uninvited (1944) April 20th, 2020
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