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Saturday, January 3, 2026

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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Right off the bat, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre  shows that it's not in the vicinity of messing around. After all, thi...
Friday, January 2, 2026

The Birdcage

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It tends to be a surprise at how well  some works hold up amid the passage of time. The people involved may have passed on since then, but i...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Film and Book Tally 2025

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Boy, was this year garbage or what? With politics going into the toilet, big names dropping like flies, and everything being on figurative a...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Mississippi Burning

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There's a real ugliness in people, a festering sickness in one's soul that emerges time and time again. And it's shown its prese...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Fun with Dick and Jane

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The opening credits of Ted Kotcheff's Fun with Dick and Jane  shows how the titular couple grew up, met, and settled into the American D...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

The In-Laws

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Comedy is a hard thing to get right. What's funny in one decade could be seen as offensive in the next decade. It's all a matter of ...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Trapeze

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Carol Reed is one of the names most synonymous with the film noir genre. With other genres, there always seemed to be something amiss. Most ...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Mortuary

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With so many names who grew up on B-movies end up making movies themselves, it's little surprise that such titles would inspire their ow...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

At Close Range

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Fact is often stranger than fiction. It's why people are so drawn to true crime, and why Hollywood practically drools over the potential...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Spontaneous Combustion

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Tobe Hooper has always been something of an anomaly within Hollywood. After hitting it big with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , he never seeme...
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