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Chinatown
  • Nov 29, 2020
  • 1 min

Chinatown

"Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.” I've watched this two or three times before but not for ten years at least. Roman Polanski's Chinatown...
A Farewell to Arms
  • Nov 29, 2020
  • 1 min

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms (1929) evokes so much in spite of Hemingway's pared-down prose and the oftentimes banal subject matter Henry, its...
Onibaba
  • Oct 28, 2020
  • 2 min

Onibaba

Onibaba (鬼婆, 1964) is a Japanese horror film directed by Kaneto Shindo. Set during the aftermath of a fourteenth century civil war near...
Rosemary's Baby
  • Oct 28, 2020
  • 1 min

Rosemary's Baby

This is another film I'd heard of countless times but watched only recently. Rosemary’s Baby, directed by Roman Polanski, is a 1968...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • Oct 27, 2020
  • 1 min

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

I’ve heard about this 1956 sci-fi horror film a thousand times since I was a kid but didn’t watch it till just the other day. Directed by...
The Human Chair
  • Oct 27, 2020
  • 1 min

The Human Chair

"The Human Chair" (人間椅子, 1925) by Edogawa Rampo isn't so much a scary tale as it is a deviant's disturbing fantasy come to life. An ugly...
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