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Monthly Archives: December 2018
The Meaningless Obligatory Midnight Only End of the Year Award List of Blu-rays Released in 2018
Happiest Retro Film Discoveries of 2018 Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967) – Criterion Collection King Hu, who would later direct A Touch of Zen (1971), delivers a wuxia with physics-defying swordplay and virtually nonstop action, dispensing with any necessary exposition … Continue reading
Posted in The Lobby
Tagged 20's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, Arabian Nights, Dario Argento, George Romero, Hammer, Jamil Dehlavi, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, John Goodman, John Landis, King Hu, Linda Blair, Michele Soavi, monkey, Slasher, Tom Hanks, William Castle, wuxia, Zombie
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Dead of Night (1945)
The anthology film Dead of Night (1945) has an insidiously unsettling quality which sinks slowly into you, seemingly out of nowhere, but stretching into your veins like a virus. Quite literally, watching it is to step into a nightmare, one … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Caligari
Tagged 40's, Basil Dearden, Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Christmas, Comedy, dummy, Ealing, Ghosts, golfing, H.G. Wells, horror, Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Robert Hamer, Surreal, ventriloquist
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