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Reviews

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  The Raven 1935

  

  Ian West ★★★★ 13

  A demented Lugosi keeping a collection of torture devices in his giant underground H.H. Holmes lair while laughing maniacally at his Saw-like victims as he’s perched above them waving a…

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  Routine Pleasures 1986

  

  brendanowicz

  (Guy who only talks about Manny Farber, making a movie about model trains) Getting a lot of Manny Farber vibes from this …

  My first time seeing a film by…

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  Larceny, Inc. 1942

  

  Owen ★★★½ 1

  Amiable comedy with Robinson, yet again, playing on his image. He really must have made more gangster spoofs than gangster movies.

  He and two cronies run a luggage store while…

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  Calamity Jane 1953

  

  Rick Burin ★★★★½ 3

  I love this film, but that doesn't mean it makes any sense.

  The first half is totally great, with Doris Day giving a fantastic, cartoonish performance as the self-mythologising heroine.…

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  Woman in the Dunes 1964

  

  Brandon Streussnig ★★★★★

  One of the most mesmerizing films I’ve ever seen. 

  It’s fucking wild how erotic this is while being a pretty devastating treatise on the futility of working just to survive.…

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  The Mad Fox 1962

  

  Alejandro Valadez ★★★★ 2

  I think it's very important to situate ourselves in the context of the film's making and release to fully appreciate its brilliance; 1962, one year before Ichikawa's An Actor's Revenge…

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  Within Our Gates 1920

  

  Neil Bahadur ★★★★★

  January 12, 2020 is exactly 100 years to the day of this films original, belaboured release, so I had no choice to revisit it. But seeing this for the first…

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  A Page of Madness 1926

  

  Peter Labuza ★★★★½

  One of the landmarks of silent cinema, and like Joan of Arc, seems to combine all the various silent film techniques from Germany, Russia, France, and the United States into…