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Highlights of the TCM Film Festival 2021

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Every year Turner Classic Movies hosts one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world under the bright lights and glamour of Hollywood. But thanks to the Global Bastard for a second… Continue reading

Movie and Drinks: The Thin Man

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The Movie-The Thin Man: This comedy/mystery is often credited as the final film of the Pre-Code Era. Nick and Nora Charles are a sharp-witted, binge-drinking, socialite couple who travel to New York for… Continue reading

Best Horror Movies of the 1930s

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With an informative piece of dialogue about the Carpathian Mountains spoken by Carla Laemmle, niece of Universal Studios founder Carl Laemmle, the horror genre entered the era of sound. With this change came… Continue reading

Forbidden Haunted Hotel Rooms

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We are familiar with a good number of historic haunted hotels. Places like the Stanley Hotel to the Omni Parker House are world renowned for their supernatural activities. But in some hotels there… Continue reading

Movie and Drinks: The Big Lebowski

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The Movie-The Big Lebowski: His name may be Jeff Lebowski, but to those in the know he is, The Dude or His Dudeness or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity… Continue reading

Wrestlers Who Could Be Actors

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When you are a professional wrestler one of the key components to be successful is to have a larger than life charisma. That “it factor” that immediately makes crowds want to pay and… Continue reading

Eerie Indiana: 30 Years of Weird

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His name was Marshall Teller, he used to live in New Jersey across the river from New York. It was polluted and full of crime and he loved it. But his parents wanted… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘Another Round’

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Recently, Robert Muller, the president and founder of the Film Noir Foundation posted on social media about this Danish film which hit him emotionally in a way no other movie has in years.… Continue reading

Retro Review: ‘House by the Cemetery’

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In this Retro Review we will be looking the 1981 flick House by the Cemetery, one of the most memorable films of Italian horror master Lucio Fulci. This was to be the filmmakers… Continue reading

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Recommended Reading

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At the end of the blockbuster film Avengers Endgame, audiences saw the Sentinel of Liberty himself Steve Rogers pass on his iconic shield to the next generation. Now the job carrying on the… Continue reading