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Dw. Dunphy On… Trailers Gone Wild
There’s one thing you have to say about the editors of movies and their trailers, and by extension, those who score the movies afterward. Even if the director has an iron hand and insists
Read More »Revival House: 10-plus Badass Cinematic Seniors
With Red about to hit movie screens, Jeff Johnson takes a look back at other aging movie characters who kicked some major ass
Read More »No Concessions: Michael Caine Revengeful, “Metropolis” Restored
Last week, Hit Girl. This week, Hit Pensioner, as Michael Caine mows ’em down as Harry Brown. This is familiar territory for Caine, whose nasty gangland thriller Get Carter still reverberates in the culture
Read More »Blu-ray Review: “Gran Torino”
Gran Torino (2009, Warner Bros.) purchase from Amazon: DVD | Blu-ray I enjoy a nice Unforgiven viewing as much as the next guy, but I’ve never really bought into the whole cult of Clint
Read More »No Concessions: Every Which Way With Clint
Clint Eastwood is having the last sneer on the Oscars. As three of the five best picture nominees struggle for a box office bounce (and one, The Reader, has become a laughingstock, the poster
Read More »Film Review: “Gran Torino”
Gran Torino finally opened to wide release this weekend, and rapidly earned the number one spot at the box office. It deserves every single dollar it’s made. Many have been calling it a type
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