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Born in Philadelphia the year "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and "The Searchers" were released; grew up in NJ, transplanted to the Midwest where I toil in the fields as a writing specialist and instructor at Knox College.
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A heartbreaking glimpse into loss and the price of survival.
Nuclear power — and one mad scientist's brain-power — unleash the ickiest monsters of the '50s.
Jacques Tati's silent-film-with-sound scolds the new, blows a kiss to the bygone.
An exciting recreation of an "inspired-by-actual-events" 1945 mission to rescue P.O.W. survivors of the Bataan Death March.
"I love this dirty town": a lot can happen in a New York minute.
A look at Richard Fleischer's body of work.
Occasionally, Art and Life cooperate, as long as you Walk the Line.
Shouldn't Bill Murray have been the next James Bond?
Every other culture has myths set in an imaginary past; modern Western society positions its myths in the future.
F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924) is one of those silent films you should watch if you (a) love movies but (b) are wary of silent ones.
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