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Brighton Rock Rises Again. Graham Greene Abides.
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A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
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The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
June 29, 2025Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
The Weekly Listicle: Worlds Of Fancy And Other Wondrous Places
June 26, 2025A cleverly rendered fantasy world has the power to make us believe astounding things, and to...
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
June 25, 2025A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
April 8, 2025It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
March 20, 2025Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...




