Kubrick #8 – Spartacus
For Memorial Day, a movie about war and freedom. And maybe a bit more than bargained for. Er… Spartacus! Sorry, there’s not really a title screen for this one. The Film: Based loosely on the...
View ArticlePenn #2 – Little Big Man (1970)
“One hundred and eleven years ago, when I was ten…” The Story: 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman, in sweet age makeup) tells a reporter how he became the only white survivor of Custer’s Last...
View ArticleHughes Brothers #4 – From Hell
The Story It’s 1888 and someone is murdering prostitutes in the London district of Whitechapel, someone whose prolific and gratuitous knifework earns him the nickname Jack the Ripper. The eccentric...
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