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Don Sharp's "Psychomania" (1971) Don't miss this one. Part Guilty Pleasure, part undiscovered masterpiece, this witty, astute British horror lark mixes bikers with Satanism and is never less than watchable. Nicky Henson, a young Brit hunk who was quite ubiquitous in the early 1970s ("30 Is a ...
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I've been remiss. Way remiss. Two movie-blog colleauges, Edward Copeland and Moira Finney, have individually - and generously - nominated my little site for The Premio Dardos Award, which is given for "recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of ...
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Speaking of 1962 as a great movie year... Now is the time to praise "Matinee," which happens (perhaps not so coincidentally) to be set in 1962. Paying homage to genre shlockmeister William Castle, Joe Dante - a genre filmmaking giant himself - resurrects the peerless movie year, 1962, for this ...
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I first noticed the remarkable character actor John Goodman in David Byrne's 1986 new-style film musical, "True Stories," a film that Goodman made after having just scored big on Broadway in Roger Miller's 1985 musical, "Big River," and having played small roles in such films as "Sweet Dreams" ...
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David Beaird's "It Takes Two" from 1988 is an unusually accomplished and knowing little film, enchantingly funny and shrewdly observant at the same time, dealing with real-life man-woman issues. Set on the eve of a wedding, it deals with what men really want (hot cars and hotter women, and ...
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Sandra Dee and Bob Denver in Henry Koster's "Take Her, She's Mine," based on the Ephron play James Stewart took a break from the dark films he made for Alfred Hitchcock and Anthony Mann in the late 1950s to do two family larks for Henry Koster and Twentieth Century-Fox early in the 1960s. ...
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Morgan and Thurman in the unreleased "The Accidental Husband," directed by Griffin Dunne. Uma Thurman's latest film, "Motherhood," directed by Katherine Dieckmann, opened in a few "select" cities this weekend - an indication that it will travel no further theatrically. Next stop: DVD. But ...
