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Category Archives: Movies
Weekend Review: Under the Silver Lake
We haven’t done a Weekend Review of an older film for some time, so here’s one for 2020, a film that, after numerous delays, finally saw release last summer, but found its biggest audience on AmazonPrime. David Robert Mitchell got notice for his first feature, The Myth of the American Sleepover, and then he wrote and directed a brilliant and very successful horror film called It Follows. He was apparently given a free reign and significant budget for this project, which blends indie comedy, neo-Noir, conspiracy theory, and urban fantasy, with interesting, but decidedly mixed, results.1
1929 – “Wings” and “Sunrise: A Tale of Two Humans”
The first two winners of the top Academy Award hit in the same year! Note that, at the time of this recording, we didn’t know that Trey would be coming along for the entire series.
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Trailer Park Tuesday – December 17, 2019
A couple of new trailers just dropped, so here you go. Discuss among yourselves.
- Onward
- Top Gun: Maverick
Trailer Park Tuesday – December 10, 2019
We’ve had quite the round-up of new trailers this weekend. Let me sum up:
- Black Widow
- Free Guy
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- No Time to Die
- Wonder Woman 1984
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Teaser
Wonder Woman Trailer Drops
Wonder Woman has been a bright spot in DC’s uneven foray into a shared superhero movie-verse….
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…and her next film, set in 1984, looks like its Friday, June 5 release day won’t be a Blue Monday.
E.T. Phone Bank… Again
The original film never received a sequel but, thirty-seven years later, E.T. and Elliot are reuniting in a heart-warming effort to sell you stuff over the Holiday Season:
But it’s an impressive effort, regardless.
Happy (American) Thanksgiving!
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October Countdown: The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Come, Cicily, let us go to our room, and pile the furniture in front of the door.
–from The Cat and the Canary: A Melodrama in Three Acts.
John Willard’s 1922 horror/melodrama/dark comedy has been adapted to film multiple times. The two 1930 versions, The Cat Creeps! and La Voluntad del muerto (A Spanish-language version filmed at night on the same sets, in the manner of the contemporaneous Dracula movies) have both been lost1, the 1960 TV version (an episode of the short-lived anthology series, The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries) is little-seen now, and I can find even less on the 1961 Swedish adaptation, Katten och kanariefågeln.
Our Halloween Day reviews (based on those votes cast) will address the three most famous adaptations, starting with the hugely influential 1927 version. Along with Lon Chaney’s famous films, this movie led to Universal’s domination of the horror genre during Hollywood’s Golden Age, and, incidentally, shaped comic-book history.
Happy Halloween!