My Favorite Year is one of those movies that was always on premium cable when I was younger. Then it wasn’t anymore
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Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s – Volume 3 has been watched five times in the AV Theater. You never would have thought that a series of 70 year old cartoons would still get so much play. But, then I caught
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My Favorite Year is one of those movies that was always on premium cable when I was younger. Then it wasn’t anymore and I never thought about it again. That was my
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Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s – Volume 3 has been watched five times in the AV Theater. You never would have thought that a series of 70 year old cartoons would still
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The Set-Up is about washed-up 35 year old Stoker Thompson. This is back in the day when 35 year olds could own a house, a housekeeper and your wife’s societal forced devotion.
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A Touch of Class is such an old movie. Hell, it was old for 1973. But, that’s what happens when you dig up Melvin Frank and make him point a camera at
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Jezebel was so influential that it created a stereotype that persists to this day. The sassy Southern woman who will destroy herself just to get a boy to like her. What was
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Moonfleet isn’t Sci-Fi, it’s a pirate movie. Those movies existed when vaccines and women as political leaders was considered far-fetched. But, didn’t pirate movies go out with Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn?
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The Witches still entertains me nearly 30 years later. It’s weird to call something a product of its time when it borrows from so many ages. Look at the film and realize
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The Thin Man is the murder mystery that only the 1930s could produce. I hadn’t seen The Thin Man since 1999 before the Warner Archive Blu-ray arrived. While I understand its importance
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Merrill’s Marauders is everything I wanted in a Sam Fuller movie. You’ve got World War II, men on a mission and the biting realization of existential angst. The film opens with an
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Gaslight is a film that I watched a lot in my Ingrid Bergman phase. Don’t understand my Bergman phase? Well, let me set the stage for you. Every young film fan has
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