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Now, Voyager
Several films from the Warner Brothers vaults have been coming out lately in very nice blu-ray and DVD editions from The Criterion Collection. As the kids say, I am “here for it.” The most recent of these WB films to hit The Criterion Catalog is director Irving Rapper’s 1942 movie “Now, Voyager” starring Bette Davis, […]
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Cluny Brown
During the final months of the much-missed streaming service FilmStruck, word on Twitter was flying around that every single subscriber must take a chance to see the last film made by famed director Ernst Lubitsch, “Cluny Brown” while it was on the service to see. A rare film, which was very hard to track down. […]
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Untitled Goose Column
We live in dark times. I know it, you know it, dogs know it. And as such, we need to take time for things that make this dark and cruel world brighter. Sometimes, however, something especially suited to cast away the dark appears. Such an occurrence has transpired, my friends. Two weeks ago, myself and […]
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Andy For Hire
You may have seen recently the story of a brilliant fellow in New Zealand who knew he was getting fired and hired a clown to follow him to the meeting, and make balloon animals while he was being fired. This may be one of the most brilliant things I’ve ever heard of, and frankly, I […]
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I Was a Teenage Autumnal
“Even someone who is pure at heart, and says their prayers at night, can turn into an Autumn freak when the pumpkin spice blooms and the moon is full and bright.” — Aristotle, probably. I was driving home the other night, it was a little after eight-thirty at night. It was one of those awfully […]
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Is The Washing Machine Trying to Kill Me?
It’s the day after the three day weekend. So it’s a Tuesday, that not only feels like a Monday, but the Mondayest Monday. As such I’ve been working on getting things done I need to get done, and house chores that need to be tackled, specifically a massive pile of laundry that was well on […]
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Monster On The Campus
At long last, September is here. Which means we are closer to Fall, which means we are closer to October, which means we are closer to Halloween. I’ve written on several occasions of how when this time of the year comes around I begin to dive into one of my most favorite movie worlds, Universal […]
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One Man’s Dream
The other night at dinner, my non-existent son, Lemuel, was too preoccupied with doing that flossing dance than he was eating the fine meal my also non-existent wife, Sheila, had made. I looked at the boy and said: “Son if you eat all your broccoli, you can play a Fortnite.” The flossing stopped, the eating […]
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Thin Manned Smiths Named Pete
There are certain times when I speak to you about new releases from Warner Archive that I find myself particularly geeked. Which is to not say I’m not always enthusiastic when speaking about their titles, but sometimes they put out something that hits right in the target of my movie love, and or is something […]
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Rumination on Wellsville
In the weeks following the death of my father, I’ve spent a lot of time re-watching my favorite “comfort food” TV. Many of these are shows I grew up watching as a kid on Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite. I’ve been binging “The Bob Newhart Show” and thinking about how wonderfully brilliant that series is, […]
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Klute
By the early 1970s, Hollywood—and America—was changing. The production code, that set of rules placed in the 1930s that told movie studios what they could, and couldn’t, show on screen had crumbled. Audiences were ready for Hollywood to grow up, as the late 1960s faded into the early 1970s, the innocence that had existed in […]
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Tracking Notification
Do you ever get excited when you receive an email that tells you “your package has shipped?” When I was a kid, and before the existence of eBay, packages showing up at the house were few and far between. I always thought, in that way that kids look at the adult world, that a package […]
