Author: John Welsh
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The Grifters (1990)
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Read more: The Grifters (1990)If you think about it, or being a Tarantino fan you don’t think at all, an actor is very much like a grifter, a con artist. The profession is to make you believe something that is not true.
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Postcards from the Edge (1990)
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Read more: Postcards from the Edge (1990)Carrie Fisher’s story is semi-autobiographical in the same sense Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is semi-autobiographical, perhaps even more so
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
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Read more: The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a very good western, Peckinpah’s best after The Wild Bunch. Its theme is common to Peckinpah’s westerns, the end of the Wild West, Wild Times, the closing of the escape route easterners
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The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
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Read more: The Hi-Lo Country (1998)Two cowpokes have their friendship tested when they fall for the same gal.
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Wraith (2017)
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Read more: Wraith (2017)I am surprised he would selected a Christian horror movie to write and direct. When I knew him his lone ambition seemed to be a Beverly Hills address North of Sunset Blvd.
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The Horse’s Mouth (1958)
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Read more: The Horse’s Mouth (1958)Like every true artist Gulley Jimson is on a quest for the perfect canvas for his vision of, in this case, The Raising of Lazarus, be-it on a wall, a ship’s hull or a condemned church.
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
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Read more: Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)Before he got a gig with Stanley Kubrick, Larry Lapinsky moved to Greenwich Village from Brooklyn to escape the confines of neighborhood expectations and his hysterical shrew of a mother.
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Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
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Read more: Motherless Brooklyn (2019)Motherless Brooklyn inhabits the world of film noir so completely the concept seems to have been created just to describe it. The film is set in the damp, drizzly November of the New York soul of 1957.
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The Year 1968 in movies: A personal view
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Read more: The Year 1968 in movies: A personal viewn order to past the time here in my cell at Château d’If, Abbé, Faria advised me to apply myself to what I do best and pass my wisdom onto others
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
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Read more: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)It is 1956! World War II is passing into memory, the Korean War armistice is shaky, but Ike occupies the White House and Patton is dead (but Elvis lives, & John Lennon hasn’t met Paul McCartney yet),