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Classic Film Review: A Catfight for the (Middle) Ages — “The Lion in Winter” (1968)
It was a gilded age for high-minded British cinema, of larger than life actors taking on epics as heroes and antiheroes — a life of “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Becket,” “Cromwell,” a dash or two of Shakespeare, and “A Man for … Continue reading
Classic Film Review: Was “Caligula” (1976, ’79, 2024) as bad as we remember?
No matter how scorned by one generation of film critics and/or filmgoers, once a movie is finished and preserved for all time there’s always a chance of “rediscovery” and reevaluation by film fans of the future. “Lost” films come back … Continue reading
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