Archive for July, 2008
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Casus Kiran
Casus Kiran is Turkish for “Spy Smasher”, the international title of this 1968 action movie by Yilmaz Atadeniz. Spy Smasher was a comic hero from the 1930s and 1940s. Of course the original Spy Smasher was American (as opposed to Turkish) and fighting the Nazis (as opposed to fighting a local gang of thugs), but [...]
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
The Scar (update)
Long long ago I reviewed a movie called The Scar or Hollow Triumph. In case you missed my review, here’s the link.
The movie (directed by Steve Sekely of Day of the Triffids fame) has now become public domain and is available for (legal!) download on the always excellent Internet Archive site. The link is here.
I’m [...]
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
In Bruges
I have to agree with the movie’s premise: Bruges is a shithole. I’ve been there a handful of times and 60% of that were bad experiences. However, it also has some nice scenery. Another point correctly observed by the movie.
Fortunately, my research on Martin McDonagh’s output was very limited. I knew he’d made a short [...]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
¿Quién Puede Matar A Un Niño?
It’s the seventh day of the seventh month and it’s time for me to publish my 77th post. Coincidence? Frankly, yes. Anyway, it’s time for another movie review, but tonight it’s not just any movie that’s up for a review…
The next movie up for a review is ¿Quién Puede Matar A Un Niño? , a [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
In 1916 Tod Browning (Freaks, Dracula, …) wrote a weird little movie, “Mystery of the Leaping Fish”. Douglas Fairbanks starred as Coke Ennyday, a parody of Sherlock Holmes. The story is so wacky I won’t even try and describe it.
Just go with it (unless you’ve never seen a silent movie before).
Put on YouTube by MaidMarian, [...]
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Kizil Tug Cengiz Han
As Pompeii and Rome weren’t the only cities around over 2000 years ago, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that other countries thought: “Hey, we have history too, let’s make a movie about it.” Nevertheless, the peplum genre was mostly popular in Italy and Hollywood. Meanwhile the Germans thought it necessary to make another movie [...]
