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Trailer Watch: Les Misérables
May 2, 2022This is, in showbiz terms, the textbook definition of "a big deal." After all this anticipation,...
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Halloween Home Video #4: Alexandre Courtès’ Asylum Blackout
March 9, 2022Welcome to Halloween Home Video (2012 edition), a special series of home video reviews for this...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 — #51
February 26, 2022Jacques Mesrine was one of the most notorious criminals in France during the 1960s and 1970s....
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: A Prophet, #44
January 27, 2022As a prison movie, it would rank in our all-time Top 10. As a gangster movie,...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Pépé le Moko, #36
December 15, 2021Pépé le Moko is described as a foray into poetic realism and as the precursor to...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Rififi, #27
November 14, 2021That these guys are, as the French say, sympathique, is evident from the beginning of the...
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Light of the Moon by Luane Rice
October 23, 2021Femi-lit doesn’t make as many headlines as its younger sister, but it shares certain familial traits....
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An Interview With Joanne Harris
October 7, 2021"There is a universality to food that makes it easily accessible to the reader, and a...