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Feb 21, 2019

It’s the middle episode of our 3-part examination of The Judas Contract! We discuss Wolfman/Perez’s penchant for framed tales, consider the Deathstroke’s trajectory, argue quite earnestly that Gar Logan ought to be canceled for his vile workplace harassment tactics, and try to remember exactly what the...


Feb 21, 2019

In the second half of our Dorothy Arzner marathon, we cover the remaining entries in the recent TIFF retrospective (Christopher Strong, Merrily We Go To Hell, and Dance, Girl, Dance), along with a pair of items we scrounged up on our own (Nana and Craig’s Wife).

Dance, Girl, Dance is justifiably considered the...


Feb 16, 2019

Inspired by TIFF Lightbox's Winter 2019 Dorothy Arzner retrospective, Elise and Dave dive into a lengthy discussion of this absurdly neglected auteur's career and context.

On leg one of the journey, we examine WORKING GIRLS (1931), THE WILD PARTY (1929) and THE BRIDE WORE RED (1937), zeroing in on the director's...


Feb 9, 2019

Based on John Patrick’s popular 1945 play, The Hasty Heart became a smash screen hit four years later – taking an already-Cold-War-weary public back to the waning days of a marginally less cynical conflict. Our characters are convalescing British Empire conscripts at a MASH unit in Burma – along with one gruff,...


Feb 8, 2019

We bid a bewildering farewell to Brother Blood and the Zandian knot this week - and then are bidden into the bewitching and bothering machinations of The Judas Contract.

This is the big one, as far as Elise is concerned - the high point of the Wolfman/Perez collaboration. Were you reading at the time? Or did you come to...