Movie and TV Resolutions: A 2019 Report Card, Part I
My 2019 movie resolutions were quite ambitious. Two of those resolutions involved watching at least one box set of movies and one season...
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awolverton77
Dec 27, 20195 min read
Uncut Gems (2019) Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
Uncut Gems (2019) Directed by Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie Produced by Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Sebastian Bear-McClard Written by Ronald...
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awolverton77
Dec 27, 20198 min read
The Best Movie Discoveries of 2019: The 1990s through 2018 (Hey, It's Complicated...)
If you’ve been following my 2019 Movie Discoveries lists up to now, I thank you. I'll warn you that my discoveries lists from the 1990s...
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awolverton77
Dec 24, 20196 min read
Film Noir Releases in January 2020
If you’re new to my monthly Film Noir Releases posts, welcome! My goal is to cover all the first-time releases to Blu-ray and DVD,...
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awolverton77
Dec 21, 201910 min read
The Best Movie Discoveries of 2019: Film Noir
As I work my way though the vast, shadowy world of film noir, I’m enjoying the discovery of so many obscure titles as well as...
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awolverton77
Dec 19, 20195 min read
The Best Movie Discoveries of 2019: The 1980s
I once foolishly dismissed the entire decade of the 1980s as either an embarrassment or a cinematic wasteland. This wasn’t the beginning...
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awolverton77
Dec 17, 20196 min read
The Best Movie Discoveries of 2019: The 1970s
I really became a movie fan in the 1970s and I can tell you it was a wonderful time. I was born in the ‘60s, but the ‘70s - and...
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awolverton77
Dec 15, 20193 min read
The Best Movie Discoveries of 2019: The 1960s
I tend to neglect movies from the 1960s, and I’m not sure why. Maybe because I grew up in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s and have seen so...
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awolverton77
Dec 13, 20194 min read
The Best Movie Discoveries of 2019: The 1950s
(Just for fun, here's my 1950s discoveries list from 2018.) If the 1940s and 1970s are my favorite decade for films, the 1950s are...
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awolverton77
Dec 12, 20194 min read
The Best Movie Discoveries of 2019: The 1940s
As I mentioned in last year’s post from this same period, the 1940s is my favorite decade for movies. I’m not sure I really understood...
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awolverton77
Dec 11, 20195 min read
The Best Movie Discoveries of 2019: The 1920s and 1930s
(Also see last year’s discoveries from the ‘20s and ‘30s.) Confession time. First off, I hate confession time, but I must be honest with...
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awolverton77
Dec 9, 20195 min read
The Best Discoveries of 2019: Crime Fiction
If you like film noir, you’ll probably like some of these crime fiction novels I discovered for the first time in 2019, some of which...
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awolverton77
Dec 8, 20197 min read
The Irishman (2019) Martin Scorsese
The Irishman (2019) Directed by Martin Scorsese Produced by Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Emma Tillinger Koskoff,...
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awolverton77
Dec 7, 20197 min read
The Best Movie (Re)Discoveries of 2019: Rewatches
I often ask myself why we rewatch anything. Of course I know the answer, at least on some level, which I’ll touch on in a moment. But...
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awolverton77
Dec 6, 20196 min read
Naked Alibi (1954) Jerry Hopper
Naked Alibi (1954) Directed by Jerry Hopper Produced by Ross Hunter Screenplay by Lawrence Roman Based on the story “Cry Copper” by...
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awolverton77
Dec 5, 20194 min read
The Best Movie Discoveries of 2019: Books on Movies
It’s a juggling act: watch another movie, or read books about movies, writing that might give you a greater understanding and...
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awolverton77
Dec 2, 20195 min read
The Philosophy of TV Noir (2008) Steven M. Sanders, Aeon J. Skoble, eds.
The Philosophy of TV Noir (2008) Steven M. Sanders, Aeon J. Skoble, eds. The Philosophy of Popular Culture series Mark T. Conard, series...
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awolverton77
Nov 30, 20192 min read
Noirvember 2019 Wrap-Up
I've had a great time reading on blogs and social media how everyone has spent their Noirvembers. As I indicated in late October, I knew...
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awolverton77
Nov 25, 20192 min read
The Best Movie Discoveries of 2019: A Preview
It’s that time again... We’re still a few weeks away from 2020, but this is the point when I start reflecting on the movies (and TV...
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awolverton77
Nov 24, 20191 min read
Noirvember 2019: Split Second (1953) Dick Powell
This review has been moved to my Substack newsletter. You can read it for free here.
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