Ealing Studios

I recently got to see the final film produced by Ealing Studios, The Siege of Pinchgut (1959), a tense hostage drama made far from the cozy English countryside and villages the studio is often associated with. Directed and co-written by Harry Watt, starring an American (Aldo Ray) and shot on location in Australia, it seems […]

Blasts from the past

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Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher (1999): Criterion Blu-ray review

Vinegar Syndrome summer binge, part one

Disk of the Week: My Son John (1952)
– Bad craziness in Hollywood

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