Living in the West Village I’m always walking up Grove Street to see lines of tourists posing at the corner of Bedford Street. I finally asked someone why and they said it was the building shown at the beginning of…
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Remember when action movies were fun- not digital effects, fast editing and deafening sound? This thought came to mind while watching the new “Limited Edition” Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome of the great soul prison flick Penitentiary (1979), one of the…
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I was so happily startled last night while I was scrolling through Netflix streaming and saw that the film I Remember You was available. It was a movie I missed in theaters and really wanted to see because it’s based…
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I don’t know about you, but when I’m out with someone and we’re deciding on which movie to see and they say: “Nothing serious or depressing- I only go to comedies…” it makes me want to whip out my…
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Let me just say something about villains. I’ve known a few real ones in my lifetime, and occasionally in relationships I have been one. But in movies I think they get a bum rap. Since the early days of kinescopes…
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A few years ago I went through a stupid health crisis. I had to endure chemo and radiation treatments for about a month. But all of that still was better than sitting through Rent: the movie. I really hate discussing…
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