Apr 26, 2021
“Dolls” mean pills. There, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way... Mark Robson’s epic movie about three women finding their ways through the obstacle-ridden world of entertainment, offers a soapy and campy take on ambition and those living in the orbit of successful women. Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke,...
Apr 19, 2021
Apr 12, 2021
It’s been a while since Randy picked something from a nation’s film output with which we have little-to-no familiarity. And a little 1970s Filipino cinema is just what we needed to break us out of the endless Criterion pattern of American/French/English/Japanese. With this - celebrated director Lino Brocka’s...
Apr 5, 2021
What’s better than a 1970s, grimy, sun-baked, L.A.-based neo-noir about a well-intentioned stripclub owner (played with all of the nervous swagger of a Ben Gazzara in his prime) with a gambling problem who gets in too deep with the mob? Two for the price of one, that’s what. This week we’re talking about both...