What a great, beautifully sad little crime film.
An immigrant set on making his fortune in America is the victim of an accidental fire in a hotel. He survives but…
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The Face Behind the Mask 1941
Went into this expecting some camp Peter Lorre horror, came out with a pretty damning indictment on the illusion of the American Dream. Maybe America is the real horror all…
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The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart 2020
At the end of the film Barry said he'd give away all the hits to have his brothers back and I full ugly cried in the cinema.
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A Christmas Carol 1938
The way the entire Cratchit family molests that poor goose with their hands and eyes is a sight to behold. The Ghost of Christmas Future has nothing on this clan.…
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The Changeling 1980
Living in a fairly old house for a decent chunk of my life, Haunted house movies were something I grew up loving right into my teen years, then I dunno…
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Westward the Women 1951
This movie owns. A hundred-so women caravanning to California ‘to marry’ but they gotta do all the work themselves because Robert Taylor shoots the other men for being lecherous creeps.…
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Westward the Women 1951
A big ranch in California is starting to prosper but they are faced with a big problem, which is severe lack of opposite sex. So a cowboy…
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The Pumpkin Eater 1964
Jack Clayton's underrated version of the Penelope Mortimer novel, with a script by Harold Pinter and a fine cast headed by Anne Bancroft. Her performance as the (compulsive childbearing) Englishwoman…
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