Let's see if I can barnstorm through two reviews without staying up until 3AM...

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So, I've stopped using "weeks" in the title for these posts. I'm about 2 and a half weeks behind on blogging, and it's too much trouble to constantly go back and find out which week is which. At this point, I'm only 4 movies behind on viewing, (finished number 47 yesterday), so I really need to catch up on the reviews. Tomorrow is kind of busy, so ( Read more... )

Yes, still posting week four a week and a half later. Would have caught up this weekend, but fell severely ill. Nasty fluish chest cold thing. Bleh. I was going to do a quick best and worst of the month thing, too, but at this rate it'll be halfway through the following month before I go to it. Still worthwhile? Maybe so. I'll see how I feel after ( Read more... )

Three more capsules, with still more on the way!

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The project has begun, and I'm already behind! 6 movie review capsules after the cut.


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Time for more previews of this month's ongoing focus on series films. Today you missed the "Lone Wolf" series (that's the early-'40's "reformed jewel thief solves mysteries, but not as well as Simon Templar" series, not the 1970's "disgraced samurai and child kill thousands of people" series) and the "Five Little Peppers" series, which appeared to ( Read more... )

Real quick, a brief view of tomorrow and Tuesday's series films showcased on TCM:

12 Monday
6:00 AM     Dick Tracy (1945)
      Dick is faced with a series of murders in which the victims all come from different social and economic backgrounds. Cast: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki. Dir: William A. Berke. BW-61 mins, TV-PG
7:15 AM     Dick ( Read more... )

Our cable service went all screwy two nights ago, so no internets for me. (Plus, fuzzy TV picture. Hooray!) Hopefully fixed by tonight, but no guarantees. Add in no access from work and no desire last night to stop by the local coffeehouse (Jamie's General Bean, where I'm typing right now), and you end up with: LATE POST!!!!

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The Flapper
1920, USA, Selznick Pictures
Directed by Alan Crosland
Written by Frances Marion

Our next offering from 1920 is one of the few surviving films of one of the biggest movie stars of the late 'teens, Olive Thomas. Born in a Pennsylvania coal mining town to Irish immigrants, Thomas became a star in Broadway's Ziegfeld Follies, before moving on ( Read more... )

The Unholy Three
MGM, USA, 1930
Directed by Jack Conway
From the book by Clarence Aaron Robbins
Continuity and Dialogue by J. C. Nugent and Elliott Nugent

Pure pulp goodness after the cut.

Oh, yeah! Now we're talkin'! Here's where this little scheme really starts to pay off! Ladies and gentlemen... "The Unholy Three!" (That's my exclamation mark this ( Read more... )