During the depths of the pandemic I found myself re-watching a wacky Warner Brothers musical from the 1930s- Ready, Willing and Able– the one where Ruby Keeler dances atop a giant typewriter at the end of the film. This time…
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Sometimes I can get in a wormhole on YouTube, especially when I’m in the mood for an “old dark house” movie from the 30s and the 40s. I just get a hankering for cantankerous families gathered at crumbling mansions for…
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It’s bad enough being trapped in your apartment for a year, but self-imprisoned watching a bad movie really reminds you how horrible life can be. Now, to be honest, I saw a lot of terrific things through my television this…
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Well, I’m sure glad to see this year in the rear-view mirror. But I admit movies saved me through all this. Granted, none of them were seen in movie theaters, but if a movie is good it will grab and…
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True, this is not your ordinary holiday season. But thank Christ for these crackpot Blu-rays, released just in time to ease the sting of a Covid-Christmas. From David Cronenberg’s furiously fucked-up- Crash, to the jazz-infused melodrama of Young Man with…
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