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BLFJ Issue #81 (August 2013) Now Live 24 Aug 2013 | 02:56 am
The new issue of BLFJ (81 | August 2013) is now live. The issue table of contents appears below. From the Editor Features What Becomes a Legend Most - Gordon Thomas Fritz Lang Adapts the Nibelungenlie...
A Stranger Arrives in Town: Francis Coppola’s TWIXT (2011) 19 Aug 2013 | 03:57 am
How do you begin a story? If I told you a story begins with the arrival of a stranger in town, you would probably think I was talking about a Western, since the number of Westerns that begin in this ...
TCM Freak Rarity Schedule – Aug. 22- Sept. 4 2013 18 Aug 2013 | 11:40 pm
Set thy Tivo for: Rare Hawks, Orange-blazoned Shakes, Gish vs. Men, Glenda the kickass Reporter, Carpenter classics, and uncomfortable laughter...
Touched by a Zombie: Warm Bodies, ParaNorman 8 Aug 2013 | 08:07 pm
Not since Gene Wilder made nice with his monster in Young Frankenstein or the cannibal mutant got the girl (Tucker and Dale vs. Evil) have our deformed horror staples been so effectively pulled from t...
Book Review – The Worldwide Film Noir Tradition: The Complete Reference to Classic Dark Cinema from America, Britain, France and Other Countries Acros... 7 Aug 2013 | 06:39 am
The Worldwide Film Noir Tradition: The Complete Reference to Classic Dark Cinema from America, Britain, France and Other Countries Across the Globe by Spencer Selby. Ames, Iowa: Sink Press, 2013. Har...
Instagram Photo Series: Moonrise Kingdom 31 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
The last picture in our beach and surf movie series, Sam Shakusky (Jared Gilman) and Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward) dance to Françoise Hardy's "Le Temps de l'Amour" in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (201...
Instagram Photo Series: 10 29 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
Sporting Carribean-style braids, the beautiful Jenny Hanley (Bo Derek) meets George Webber's (Dudley Moore) gaze, as well as our own, on a Manzanillo beach in Blake Edwards' 10 (1979). Check out the i...
Over the Earbuds and under the Wire: Orange is the New Black (Netflix Original Series) 28 Jul 2013 | 12:40 am
Endeavoring to live out her 15-month sentence, Piper is subject to the mercies and obsessions of wardens and corrections officers who don't give a shit about which inmate is right or wrong, running up...
Instagram Photo Series: Rocky III 26 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) and Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) celebrate ... something in the Santa Monica surf. In addition to suggestive, homoerotic slow-mo, Stallone's Rocky III (1982) also gav...
Instagram Photo Series: Chariots of Fire 24 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
Often lampooned but never rivaled, runners from the University of Cambridge train along the Fife coast in Hugh Hudson's Chariots of Fire (1981). In this frame, Lord Andrew Lindsay (Nigel Havers) hits ...
