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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 »Lost in the ’80s: Freddie Mercury, “Love Kills”
In 1984, famed disco producer Giorgio Moroder got it into his head that Fritz Lang’s silent 1927 masterpiece Metropolis needed to be restored with colored tint, a new edit, and heck, a new soundtrack
Read More »Sugar Water: “Stay Strong”
Laid Off But Not Lying Down The Daily Planet‘s veteran crime reporter discovers a new scene. In 1978, one week before Christmas, Clark Kent was hired as the Daily Planet‘s newest reporter on the
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