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Sean Baker's 'Anora' Criterion Collection Review: Wifey of the Year
Time changes our perception of movies, and perhaps no other film has had such life-altering events play behind it as quickly as Sean Baker’s Anora, the 2024 Best Picture Oscar winner. It’s not that anything it had to say about class distinction in the 21st Century was wrong before January 20, 2025. No, it’s that everything that has happened in the three months since then has super-charged Baker’s…
Martin Campbell's 'Cleaner' Review Starring Daisy Ridley: Slick '90s Thriller Released 30 Years Too Late
Cleaner, the latest action-thriller from prolific action director Martin Campbell, should forever be known as the movie where Daisy Ridley gets to chop off a guy’s head. It’s one of the many stylish touches in the frantic fight scenes in this movie, which should have been made 30 years ago. Cleaner is a Die Hard riff with no higher ambition than to keep you entertained for 98 minutes. The movie…
'Caligula: The Ultimate Cut' Blu-Ray Review
Filmmakers thought about the Roman Empire a lot, about as much as TikTok believes the average man does. During the 1950s and 1960s, there was no better way to win cheap prestige than to make a Roman sword-and-sandal epic. So when Penthouse founder Bob Guccione decided he wanted his film production arm to gain a bigger foothold in Hollywood, he chose to produce an epic on the most obvious Roman…
'Billy, They Don't Like You to Be So Free': Sam Peckinpah's 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid' at 50
Movies shouldn’t be reviewed based on what they’re not or what we want them to be. So how does one approach Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid (1973)? It’s a movie we’ve never seen in the way its director intended. Editing the final product was taken out of his hands before it was finally released, and in the five decades since then, multiple versions have surfaced. In fact, the new…
Warner Archive Review: Silent Classics - 'The Boob' & 'Why Be Good?'
We need more silent films on Blu-ray, especially from the Turner Entertainment library. The 2013 release of The Big Parade was thought to be the start, but only a few have trickled out since then. The Warner Archive Collection may have finally hit upon a good idea to quicken the pace. In April 2024, WAC released its first “Silent Movie Classics Double Feature” set, which includes William A.…
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'All That Money Can Buy' or 'The Devil and Daniel Webster': Criterion Blu-Ray Review
It should be argued that All That Money Can Buy, William Dieterle‘s 1941 film adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet’s short story The Devil and Daniel Webster, is the great film about the U.S. and what Americans will do to achieve the so-called American Dream we felt we were promised. Set in 1840, All That Money Can Buy stars James Craig (Kitty Foyle) as Jabez Stone, a New Hampshire farmer who has…
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Seeing the Light: Delmer Daves' 'The Hanging Tree' starring Gary Cooper
The final films of Gary Cooper see directors making the most of their last chance to work with him. Delmer Daves did just that with The Hanging Tree (1959), the first time the 3:10 to Yuma filmmaker worked with Coop in a decade. At this point in his career, Daves was nearing the end of his run of highly intelligent Westerns and was just about to redefine himself again with glossy soap dramas like…
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William Wyler's 'Roman Holiday' Review: A Classic Hits 4K
William Wyler might not have seemed like the obvious choice to direct Roman Holiday. If anyone else directed the film though, it’s hard to imagine the same warm, welcoming, and touching result. Wyler’s unparalleled talent for bringing out exacting performances from his cast that hit the perfect note would have been sorely missing if a writer-director helmed it instead. Roman Holiday is a…
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'Past Lives': Mending Your Broken Heart
Writing about a movie a week after you’ve seen it is generally ill-advised at a time when outlets race to get their reviews up as soon as possible. No one wants to post a review of the new blockbuster late, or it gets lost in the glut of takes. This isn’t great. It doesn’t give you the time to sit and live with a movie. You have to make a judgment call based on the one time you’ve seen it and…
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Cartoons for All You Happy People: Tex Avery's Droopy on DVD and Blu-ray
Warner Archive‘s three Tex Avery Screwball Classics volumes on Blu-ray are about as comprehensive a look at Avery’s MGM career as possible. Before 2020, the idea that over 430 minutes of cartoon insanity by the greatest animated shorts director who ever lived being released in high definition felt like a pipe dream. Fifteen Droopy shorts were spread among them, providing fans with the…
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'What's Wrong with Pictures?': Jean Harlow in 'Bombshell'
“What’s wrong with pictures? It’s perfectly honest work, isn’t it?” While Hollywood’s fascination with itself is as old as the movies themselves, during the late 1920s and early 1930s, “movies about movies” were usually parodies and satires of the system. Outside of What Price Hollywood? (1932), it wasn’t until the original A Star Is Born (1937) that Hollywood saw the dramatic potential in…
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Jean Arthur in 'Too Many Husbands': Or 'My Favorite Wife' in Reverse
Jean Arthur in ‘Too Many Husbands’: Or ‘My Favorite Wife’ in Reverse
The same year Cary Grant had to decide between two wives, Jean Arthur had to decide between two husbands in Too Many Husbands (1940). Although much less well-known today, Too Many Husbands is tighter, wittier and funnier than My Favorite Wife (1940). The two movies have the same story DNA and even run just about the same length. However, the budgetary constraints at Columbia and the endlessly…
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Jennifer Lawrence needed a back-to-basics project to revive the talent that shined so brightly in [...]
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TCM Classic Film Festival 2022: People, Places, and Movies
TCM Classic Film Festival 2022: People, Places, and Movies
The 2022 TCM Classic Film Festival wrapped up on April 24, but it’s hard to get back to reality after an astonishing weekend. It was the first time many of us had gathered together to celebrate movies in three years or four, in my case. While movies brought us to Los Angeles, it was more important to be together… to hear our voices and hang out between screenings. I personally had a very…
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TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Picks: Long Time Gone
TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Picks: Long Time Gone
FOUR YEARS. It’s been four years since I was last in Hollywood for the Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival. Since 2014, I had been going on even-numbered years just to give myself a chance to save money during the off-year. I made it in 2016 and 2018 and had everything ready for 2020. Of course, the coronavirus pandemic happened, so 2020 was canceled. Then it became obvious that 2021…
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'Dancing Pirate' (1936): The Film Detective Blu-ray Review
‘Dancing Pirate’ (1936): The Film Detective Blu-ray Review
Early Technicolor films are fascinating because when we think of movies before 1939, images of black and white flood our minds. Only a handful of three-strip Technicolor features from before 1939 can be considered “great,” like The Adventures of Robin Hood, Nothing Sacred, and the original A Star Is Born. But none of these can hold the “first” of anything titles. The first full-length,…
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