Boris Karloff played a number of mad scientists over the years. Before I Hang is a typical example. At the outset, Karloff’s physician is sentenced to murder for killing a patient in what sounds like euthanasia. In prison, he is […]
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Moneyball (2011) ✰ ✰ ✰
Bennett Miller’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’ best-selling book Moneyball stars Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics in 2001 and 2002. Beane’s team loses in the playoffs to the New York Yankees and he is […]
Continue reading »The Grey (2012) ✰ ✰ ✰
I’m not sure I would ever want to see it again, or at least any time soon, but I think Joe Carnahan’s outdoor survival saga, The Grey, is pretty good. It is appropriately rugged, and bloody, and downbeat. It is […]
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