Glorifying the American Girl

Glorifying the American Girl

Glorifying the American Girl – Glitter, Jazz Hands, and a Lotta Old-School Sass Honestly, mate, when I put on *Glorifying the American Girl* yesterday evening, it was half a nostalgia trip, half a culutral anthropology experiment. This oldie from 1929, directed...
Palooka

Palooka

Palooka – More Than Just Punches & Paparazzi Alright, so Palooka, this flick directed by Benjamin Stoloff (you know, the guy who did a ton of fast-talking B-movies in the 30s), is a weird little mix of glitz’n’grime from the old days. Starring the absolute legend...
Colorado

Colorado

Colorado (1978) – A Strange Trip Through the Wild West You know that weird feeling when you bite into a dammsugare expecting it to be fresh, but it’s just a bit off and yet kinda charming? That’s sort of how I felt after watching Colorado, the old-school western...
Slander House

Slander House

Slander House: Where Gossip Gets a Steam Bath So I just sat down with “Slander House” from 1938, you know, one of those old flicks with more snappy banter than a midsommar’s night in Gävle after a few pilsners. Directed by Charles Lamont – not the biggest...
Blue Steel

Blue Steel

Blue Steel: A Gun, Some Grit, and Jamie Lee Curtis With a Whole Lotta Hair Alright, so Blue Steel. You remember that one? Kathryn Bigelow directed it, back in ’89 or ’90, somewhere around there. Bigelow rarely misses, and this was before Point Break or The...
Convict 13

Convict 13

Convict 13: Prison Break, 1920s Style Ok, so Convict 13, right? I watched it again last night, probably my fifth or sixth time since that summer back in ‘97 when I rented all those dusty silent movies from Videomix i Sundbyberg. I know, who else except film-nerds like...