An OPEN THREAD To Get Caught Up

Are we back? Too early to say. We thought we had it licked a couple of times before, only for strange overnight technical shenanigans to hit the reset button in…

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Retro Review: ROPE (1948)

It’s hard to go wrong with the one-two-punch of Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart. Yet, it does go wrong in Rope (1948). Play Out The Rope Rope was Hitchcock’s first…

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We’re Back, Baby!

Is this thing on... testing...testing... Are we back? Yeah, we're thinking we are back! It has been an emotional few days. Something, somewhere changed without notification. Was it WordPress? Was…

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Update: Technical Issues

The technical issues that have plagued the site for the last few days now appear to be isolated to part of the home page and, weirdly and specifically, the first…

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Bond On: TOMORROW NEVER DIES

The Brosnan Era was underway. The legal issues that had derailed Dalton's spin in the Aston were seemingly over, and Brosnan's first outing, GoldenEye, was a commercial and critical smash.…

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HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: The Mob And Tinseltown

Whenever we talk about the murky and byzantine world of Hollywood Accounting, or mention massively inflated budgets on modern Hollywood productions, it is only a matter of time before somebody…

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Leadership Admits Marvel Failures

Everyone watching has known things were not going too well at Marvel recently. After the absolute triumph of the conclusion of the Infinity Saga, things had tailed off spectacularly. The…

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