Call Her Savage – 1932, John Francis Dillon

The first in a month long series of pieces on pre-code Hollywood running on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday… by Allan Fish (USA 1932 88m) not on DVD The sins of the fathers p  Sam E.Rork  d  John Francis Dillon  w  Edwin J.Burke  novel  Tiffany Theyer  ph  Lee Garmes  m  Peter Brunelli, Arthur Lange  art  Max [...]

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Bedridden: Katsuhiro Otomo and Hiroyuki Kitakubo’s “Roujin Z”

By Bob Clark When I reviewed the Pixar hit (a pair of words I’ve grown to begrudgingly accept as almost completely redundant) Up a few years back, I was taken aback by all the near-unanimous praise it was getting from the critical establishment, particularly for its opening scenes, depicting the passage of time from childhood [...]

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two – 2011, David Yates

by Allan Fish p  David Barron, David Heyman, J.K.Rowling  d  David Yates  w  Steve Kloves  novel  J.K.Rowling  ph  Eduardo Serra  ed  Mark Day  m  Alexandre Desplat  art  Stuart Craig Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort), Alan Rickman (Severus Snape), Michael Gambon (Albus Dumbledore), Ciaran Hinds (Aberforth [...]

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The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks – 1944, Edgar Neville

by Allan Fish (Spain 1944 83m) not on DVD Aka. La Torre de los Siete Jorobados Furniture doesn’t talk p  Luis Judez, Germán López Prieto  d  Edgar Neville  w  Edgar Neville, José Santugini  novel  Emilio Carrere  ph  Henri Barreyre, Andrés Pérez Cubero  ed  Sara Ontañón  m  José Ruiz de Azagra  art  Francisco Escriñá, Pierre Schild, [...]

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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British (and UK) Pop Music (part 34)

by Jamie Looking at where we’ve come from and what we still have to cover in the post-punk grouping do you start to understand the importance and incredibly prolific output the sub-genre had. Usually this series takes movements 5 at a time, but seeing as how we’ve already covered 9 acts in this grouping, with [...]

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Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens – 1979, Russ Meyer

by Allan Fish (USA 1979 95m) DVD1/2 Gimme that ol’ time religion p/d/ph/ed  Russ Meyer  w  R.Hyde, B.Callum (Russ Meyer)  m  William Tasker  art  Michele Levesque Francesca “Kitten” Natividad (Lavonia Shedd/Lola Langousta), Anne Marie (Eufaula Roop), Ken Kerr (Lamar Shedd), June Mack (Junk Yard Sal), Henry Rowland (Martin Bormann), Patrick Wright (Mr Peterbuilt), Sharon Ceccatti [...]

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Mondo 70′s Kevin Gilbert (a.k.a. “Samuel Wilson”), prolific master of diversity and ecclectic cinema

by Sam Juliano Among the Albany Public Library’s more inconspicuous contributions to the film community is it’s formidable archives of obscure and eclectic titles that offer the most enterprising card-holders a treasure trove of off-the-beacon-track rarities and prompt current updates. For an unbeatable price it’s a way to gleefully indulge oneself in many works that can’t [...]

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14 Film Pre-Code Bonanza, Life Above All, The Woman with the Five Elephants, Captain America and Buster Keaton on Monday Morning Diary (July 25)

by Sam Juliano The central deceit of the second-season episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, “That Evening Sun” is that a young woman imagines that the Earth has been knocked off it’s course and is hurtling towards the sun in a sure path of eventual cosmic incineration.  In an unamed big city a radio [...]

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion – 1997, Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki

by Allan Fish (Japan 1997 90m) DVD1/2 Found on the shores of the silver devastation p  Mituhisha Ishikawa, Tsuguhiko Kadokawa  d  Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki  w  Hideaki Anno, Shinji Haguchi, Kazuya Tsurumaki  m  Shiro Sagisu VOICES BY (Japanese version) :- Megumi Ogata (Shinji Ikari), Yuko Miyamura (Asuka Langley Sohryu), Kotono Mitsuishi (Misato Katsuragi), Megumi Hayashibara [...]

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Mudhoney – 1965, Russ Meyer

by Allan Fish (USA 1965 92m) DVD2 A tale of sex in the de-pression p  George Costello, Russ Meyer  d  Russ Meyer  w  Raymond Friday Locke, W.A.Sprague  ph  Walter Schenk  ed  Russ Meyer, Charles G.Schelling  m  Henri Price Hal Hopper (Sidney Brenshaw), Antoinette Christiani (Hannah Brenshaw), Lorna Maitland (Clara Belle), Rena Horton (Eula), John Furlong [...]

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