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Review: The Three Musketeers

[Originally published in Movietone News 31, April 1974] The Three Musketeers opens with an auspiciousness I haven’t experienced since the first image and chords of 2001: Against a dark, featureless...

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Review: The Four Musketeers

[Originally published in Movietone News 40, April 1975] The Four Musketeers cannot be recommended to anyone who hasn’t seen The Three Musketeers. On the other hand, you haven’t seen The Three until...

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Review: Midway

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] To make an uninvolving movie out of one of the most decisive battles of the Second World War may seem a dubious challenge, but there’s no denying...

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The Beautiful and the Damned: Major Dundee

Sam Peckinpah’s much-messed-with 1965 film Major Dundee has just come out on Blu-ray from the boutique label Twilight Time. The two-disc set features both the 2005 reissue based on a preview version of...

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Videophiled Classic: ‘Zulu’ and ‘Khartoum’

The sun sets on the British Empire and the historical epic in a pair of 1960s productions built around legendary colonial battles of the late 19th century. Legendary to British history, that is. The...

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Videophiled Essential: ‘Touch of Evil’ on Blu-ray

Touch of Evil (Universal, Blu-ray) – Orson Welles’ baroque border town murder mystery is a wild masterpiece, a sleazy, grimy, jittery, and ultimately dazzling work of cinematic magic. It’s considered...

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Review: Soylent Green

[Originally published in Movietone News 25, September 1973] Richard Fleischer’s new film is a science-fiction-horror-mystery. The horrors are ecological: pollution, overpopulation, welfare as a...

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Review: Touch of Evil

[Originally written for Seattle Weekly, 1998] Set the wayback machine to 1998. Parallax View presents reviews of films released 20 years ago, written by our contributors for various papers and...

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