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No Concessions: Michael Caine Revengeful, “Metropolis” Restored

Bob Cashill May 10, 2010 1

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

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Lost in the ’80s: Freddie Mercury, “Love Kills”

John C. Hughes June 16, 2009 8

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

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Sugar Water: “Stay Strong”

Robert Cass February 16, 2009 21

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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