Tag: David Carradine
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My month with Marty: what I learned watching all 26 of Scorsese’s movies
What is the thread that runs through the revered director’s films? Ahead of his latest, Killers of the Flower Moon, a critic watches all of them to find outIn the final scene of Martin Scorsese’s second feature film Boxcar Bertha, the luckless heroine, played by Barbara Hershey, vainly pursues the freight car from which her…
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Charles Bronson & Toshirō Mifune Teamed Up in This Samurai Spaghetti Western
Looking through the lens of pop culture, it can sometimes seem that the Spaghetti Western genre begins and ends with Sergio Leone. The same lens can also reduce the samurai genre down to the work of Akira Kurosawa. Not that being so completely defined by two masters of cinema is such a bad thing, but…
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The Best So-Bad-They’re-Good Movies on Roku Right Now
Although we’re not entirely sure who to thank for movies that are so bad they’re good, we can likely point to solid contenders like Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. There’s something special about films that aren’t neatly packaged into the typical box-office-hit formula. Or perhaps, that’s something said when entire watch lists are cleared. Either way,…