Hard Times

I've always found it slightly amusing that Walter Hill followed this (a rather straightforward story about a dude fighting dudes in the Depression) and THE DRIVER (another relatively straightforward...

HARD TIMES (Walter Hill, USA, 1975) 8

Set in Depression-era New Orleans, this is basically a scam movie, only the "game" is bare-knuckle underground fighting rather than poker or the futures market...

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Extraordinary! There are three—maybe four—Pinocchio films now in development or newly released. They all promise to reveal dark, hitherto unexplored aspects of the famous marionette’s...

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“These,” he pointed around, “are my other guns. The parallel is exact!” — Sherlock Holmes, “The Empty House.”[1]

Having devoted considerable...

Charles Bronson remembered By coincidence, I saw Charles Bronson’s greatest film for the first time in a theater, ONCE...