This fictionalization of the history and legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen is a very controversial movie, it seems. Red Tails joins the Airmen as a unit stationed in Italy, bypassed for important missions and on the verge of being canceled. Need […]
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Chronicle (2012) ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
I suspect that, whether they would admit or not, most people over the age of, say, twelve, are sick of superhero movies. There have been too many over the last fifteen years, and way too many of them have been […]
Continue reading »Man on a Ledge (2012) ✰ ✰ ½
A lightweight heist movie, Man on a Ledge almost works well enough to unashamedly recommend, but not quite. Its final act brings to an abrupt end all the loose threads of its intriguing characters and stories, resulting in a tapestry that, […]
Continue reading »Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) ✰
Opening in Northern California, Halloween III: Season of the Witch begins with a chase. A man carrying a mask is being chased by suited men in a car. He manages to escape, barely, and in the hospital says “They are […]
Continue reading »Mr. Moto (1937 – 1939 [+ 1965])
by Psychdoc77 In the 1930s the B production unit at 20th Century Fox was most famous for the Charlie Chan series of mysteries. A total of 26 Chan films were made there between 1931 and 1942. The series was quite […]
Continue reading »Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937) ✰ ✰ ✰
Peter Lorre played Mr. Moto in a series of eight films made for Fox in the late 1930s and this was the first of them. A lean 66 minutes, Norman Foster’s film packs a significant plot line into essentially four […]
Continue reading »Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937) ✰ ✰ ½
The second Mr. Moto film takes place in the northern Chinese city of Peiping, an isolated but strangely Westernized city. The plot involves seven ancient scrolls from the time of Genghis Khan that, when placed together, reveal the location of […]
Continue reading »Mr. Moto’s Gamble (1938) ✰
The first Mr. Moto film set entirely in the United States, this third entry finds Peter Lorre’s character investigating a murder that occurred during a boxing match. There are a number of suspects and Mr. Moto spends most of the […]
Continue reading »Mr. Moto Takes A Chance (1938) ✰ ✰
Peter Lorre’s fourth Mr. Moto film finds him posing as an archeologist in Cambodia. After a plane crashes and an aviatrix (Rochelle Hudson) is brought to the local village, the tribal leader’s wife is murdered. American filmmakers are accused but […]
Continue reading »Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938) ✰ ✰
Mysterious Mr. Moto, the fifth film in the Fox series, opens in the jungles of the south Caribbean as two men escape from notorious Devil’s Island. In other films that would be the whole story, but here it is simply […]
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