Not so Super 8

I don’t spend a lot of time these days wondering why my personal taste in movies is so often completely out of sync with popular and critical opinion, but every now and then something comes up that makes me pause for a moment. On Friday, I went to see J.J. Abrams’ Super 8, even though […]

Blasts from the past

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Dorothy Arzner’s Merrily We Go to Hell (1932):
Criterion Blu-ray review

When “bad” can be good …

Brief comments, part two

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