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New addition to the collection. The WISE ADX GMT
March 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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A ★★★★½ review of Nosferatu (2024)
Nosferatu exceeded my expectations. It’s a movie buff’s movie. In it Robbert Eggers makes reference to the original Bram Stoker novel Dracula, to F.W, Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922,) ...
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February 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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A ★★★★★ review of Eraserhead (1977)
Sad to learn that David Lynch passed away today. In my opinion Lynch was the most significant artist working in the cinematic form of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His influence is already m...
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January 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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No holiday season is complete without it.

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A ★★★★ review of Go (1999)
Go. An enduring Christmas classic.
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December 9, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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Mae Murray is BONKERS in this.

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A ★★★½ review of Bachelor Apartment (1931)
Lowell Sherman and Irene Dunne elevate Bachelor Apartment beyond its middle of the road romantic comedy plot. In a nutshell this is another “poor girl meets rich man” story. This time the girl is Hele...
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December 6, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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One of my all time favorites.

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A ★★★★★ review of Election (1999)
Rewatch on the Criterion Channel.  Election is one of my all time favorite films. I saw it in first run three times. I think of it as a spiritual sequel to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986.) Of all the ...
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December 3, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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Steamy pre-code delight.

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A ★★★★ review of Red Dust (1932)
An exceptionally lusty pre-code drama, Red Dust is a variation on the then-popular “white woman in the jungle” genre that includes Sadie Thompson (1928), Across to Singapore (1928), Safe in Hell (1931...
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November 30, 2024 at 8:04 AM
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Young Joan Crawford.

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A ★★★★½ review of Grand Hotel (1932)
Rewatch on the TCM app. Grand Hotel was one of the first pre-code pictures I ever saw (I was maybe 18 or 19 at the time) and it’s the film that made me fall in love with Joan Crawford. She’s young and...
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November 27, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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Extreme style and a packed cast:

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A ★★★½ review of Blink Twice (2024)
Zoë Kravitz’s debut film Blink Twice is beautiful to look at. The cinematography is excellent and the color control is impressive. It has a cast packed with interesting actors and it moves along at an...
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November 26, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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Exceptional scene chewing by Karloff, Rathbone and Price.

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A ★★★½ review of Tower of London (1939)
About ten minutes into it I realized I’ve seen Tower of London before, probably over 20 years ago. It’s a curious flick. Universal does an MGM style epic. The plot asks you to identify with a man who ...
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November 24, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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Alien: Romulus rewatch.

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A ★★★★ review of Alien: Romulus (2024)
Rewatch on Hulu.  I still rate this third overall in the series (excluding Ridley Scott’s prequels.) Given the strength of the first two and the general weakness of the other sequels that isn’t saying...
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November 23, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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Gothic noir? Good stuff.

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A ★★★★ review of The Unseen (1945)
Gail Russell is greet in The Unseen, a tight gothic noir about a mysterious murder witnessed by a little boy. Russell suffered from extreme stage fright and really struggled to get the job done. Her h...
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November 21, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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A British, color noir with a frank take on racism in the UK c. 1960? Surprisingly engaging.

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A ★★★★ review of Sapphire (1959)
Sapphire was not what I was expecting. The plot is a basic police procedural around the death of a woman who may or may not have been a prostitute. But twist, she’s half black and was living as a whit...
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November 21, 2024 at 4:55 AM
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Noirvember!

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A ★★★★½ review of D.O.A. (1949)
Rewatch on MGM+ D.O.A. is a relentless ouroboros of a film with a story told in flashback about a hero who’s also the victim. It starts out light and breezy then ramps up the tension step by step to a...
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November 20, 2024 at 5:02 AM
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Clara Bow talks! Check out my review on @letterboxd.social

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Review of ‘Call Her Savage’ (1932) ★★★★½
My favorite Clara Bow film. She shows the best of her acting range in it, employing the best of her silent chops and adding in some great sound acting as well. Conventional wisdom has it that Clara…
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March 5, 2024 at 4:53 AM
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Street Scene is basically King Vidor’s 1931 Do the Right Thing. It’s a notably modern feeling film. Check out my review on @letterboxd.social

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Review of ‘Street Scene’ (1931) ★★★★
Street Scene is an early talkie that is so sophisticated that it almost reads as modern. It’s a slice of life piece that takes place over one sweltering day outside of a typical tenement building.…
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March 2, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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Probably the weirdest pre-code musical outside of DeMille’s Madame Satan. Check out my @letterboxd.social entry on I Am Suzanne:

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Review of ‘I Am Suzanne!’ (1933) ★★★★½
I Am Suzanne! is a highly eccentric, deliberately stylized, pre-code musical romance that incorporates elements of horror, surrealism and subtle psychodrama. There isn’t anything quite like it in all…
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March 1, 2024 at 3:09 AM
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One of the better Universal horror films. Murders in the Rue Morgue on @letterboxd.social

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Review of ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (1932) ★★★★
Karl Freund’s gorgeous cinematography elevates Murders in the Rue Morgue. The film uses chiaroscuro lighting with inky shadows and sparkling highlights. There are strong elements of German…
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February 29, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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Today I had a look at Bella Lugosi and Boris Karloff in one of the most underrated of the pre-code Universal horror films: The Black Cat on @letterboxd.social

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Review of ‘The Black Cat’ (1934) ★★★½
The Black Cat has always been one of my favorites of the pre-code Universal horror films. It pits Lugosi against Karloff in their most essential aspects. No heavy monster makeups, no elaborate…
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February 28, 2024 at 5:01 AM
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Continuing my effort to watch as many 100 year old films as still exist. Today it’s Wallace Beery in The Signal Tower from 1924 on @letterboxd.social

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Review of ‘The Signal Tower’ (1924) ★★★★
Railroad drama! A silent film staple. This is a perfect example of the genre. David works at a rail signal and switching station and lives with his wife Sally and son Sonny at a cottage nearby. When…
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February 26, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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My brief review of the incredible Society of the Snow on @letterboxd.social

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Review of ‘Society of the Snow’ (2023) ★★★★
Get ready to experience the full gamut of emotions when watching Society of the Snow. It’s an especially moving film.
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February 26, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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John Garfield and Mae Marsh in Eric von Stroheim’s 1925 version of The Merry Widow on my @letterboxd.social feed.

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Review of ‘The Merry Widow’ (1925) ★★★½
Von Stroheim’s 1925 The Merry Widow is another massive production with lavish sets, sumptuous costumes and and a cast that even includes uncredited background work by Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.…
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February 25, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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My latest @letterboxd.social entry is up. Baby Peggy stars in another film that’s 100 this year.

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Review of ‘The Family Secret’ (1924) ★★★½
To date only five full length Baby Peggy films are known to survive. The Family Secret is likely representative of the many similar but lost films that “first series” child actor Baby Peggy made. …
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February 24, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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A film that’s 100 years old this year. The Cigarette Girl Of Mosselprom on @letterboxd.social

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Review of ‘The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom’ (1924) ★★★½
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom is a rare example of early Soviet non-propaganda filmmaking. It’s a simple comedy/love triangle in which the Cigarette Girl is poised between one of her co-workers…
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February 23, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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Films I’m watching and logging on @letterboxd.social

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Review of ‘The Wolf Man’ (1941) ★★★
This film absolutely terrorized me when I was a kid watching it on late night horror movie TV. As an adult it doesn’t pack that punch. While it’s innovative in terms of effects all I think about when…
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February 22, 2024 at 5:37 AM