Jul 23
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Original Release Date: May 6,1932 Run Time: 75 minutes Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer was mostly known for his early, more religious works, including the silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc. Not wanting to be typecast as a “religious” director, he decided to tackle Sheridan Le Fanu’s gothic vampire novel “Carmilla.” Together with […]
Jun 11
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Release Date: March 26, 1969 Run Time: 103 minutes I was intrigued when selecting a film for review when I spotted the title The Illustrated Man. One of my all-time favorite authors happens to be Ray Bradbury, whose short story collection of the same title serves as the basis for this movie. Something about his […]
May 10
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Release Date: May 2, 1961 Run Time: 54 minutes The science fiction films of the 1950s and 1960s played into society’s fears at the time, either with musings toward the Cold War or delving into the new territory of atomic energy. The latter of those – atomic energy – proved very fruitful in the eyes […]
Jan 6
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Release Date: December 1955 Run Time: 80 minutes The 1950s was a banner decade for B-movie creature features, and many of the best of those sprouted from the appearance of a new form of power – nuclear energy. Scores of movies centered on mutations caused by too much radiation flooded the movie theaters, providing the […]
Dec 3
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Release Date: April 8, 1970 Running Time: 100 minutes Computers fill almost every aspect of life nowadays. Walking down the street, folks have little white ear buds stuck into their ears with the cords trailing into iPods. That woman sitting at the next table in the coffee shop lovingly stares into the glare of her […]
Nov 19
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Release Date: October 15, 1929 Run Time: 169 minutes When someone mentions the name Fritz Lang, two movies probably come to mind: the science fiction classic Metropolis (1927), and his first talking film M (1931) — both of which have had a lasting impact on the art of moviemaking. His career in films, beginning in […]
Oct 31
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Release date: February 25, 2003 Run time: 80 minutes The mockumentary is not a new style of filmmaking, and its origins can be traced back to Luis Buñuel’s 1933 film Land Without Bread (Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan), though some film scholars might debate that point. Looking through the scores of films created since that […]
Aug 29
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Release Date: March 10, 1972 Run Time: 89 minutes When you think of science fiction movies, there are certain things that comes to most peoples’ minds: images of robots engaged in a furious battle with humans; spaceships playing cat-and-mouse in an asteroid belt; distant ethereal planets with undiscovered species waiting to eat unsuspecting visitors; possibly […]
Aug 16
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Release Date: December 29, 1964 (Japan) Run Time: 161 minutes I delved a bit deeper into the research for this piece specifically because I had no idea what the word Kwaidan meant, though it could be easily figured out by simply watching the movie. But then I would never have learned that kwaidan (or kaidan), […]
Jul 19
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Release Date: June 1964 Run Time: 110 Minutes I remember during elementary school, my Dad and I spent every Sunday afternoon glued to the television set. I spread out on the couch or lay on the floor hugging a pillow into a mound for my head while my Dad reclined in his chair, feet propped […]
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