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David Cairns

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THE BEATLES GET BACK. In which Peter Jackson swallows Michael Lindsay-Hogg and tries to digest him. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/c...

Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf-Aids

No, we’re not doing noirs all month, that might get monotonous. I do love a good noir, though. By way of a change, I just finished watching THE BEATLES GET BACK which I’d have to admit …

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November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM

David Cairns

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I WALK ALONE interestingly anticipates some more modern crime flicks -- Leone, Boorman... dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/n...

November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM

David Cairns

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Jacob Elordi is good and all, but he's not, like, better than Peter Hinwood.

November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM

David Cairns

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Strange blend of style and incompetence in an Aldrich.
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Aldrich Night

I was always keen to see Robert Aldrich’s WORLD FOR RANSOM in hopes that it would have at least some of the interest of KISS ME DEADLY and, now that I’m finally watching it (haven&#8217…

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November 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM

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MidCenturyCinema

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11/7/52: B #filmnoir maestro Phil Karlson w/Kansas City Confidential - #noirvember
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Crowther, unhappy: nytimes.com/1952/11/29/a...
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Manny Farber: archive.org/details/nati...

November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM

David Cairns

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I just knew I'd like MURDER BY CONTRACT this time, even though I didn't last time. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/h...

November 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM

David Cairns

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I look at a single take from TOUCH OF EVIL. But not the usual one.
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A Touch of “Touch”

So yes, TOUCH OF EVIL. A single shot. No, not that one. I thought I’d try closely analysing a little bit of it I always enjoyed, but I quickly found so much detail there that I’ll have …

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November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM

David Cairns

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THE DEVIL'S RAIN is a bad movie with a good movie trying to get out, but the good movie is treated like Whack-a-Mole. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/i...

November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM

David Cairns

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Trailer time! dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/i...

It Takes Courage

I was going to make this a special Noirvember trailer mashup using only classic noir titles, but it kind of got away from me. Maybe next week…

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November 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM

David Cairns

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Noirvember seems odd...
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Noirvember Nights

Starting the gloomy season with Julien Duvivier’s PANIQUE (1946) which I first saw on a grey-market VHS. The Criterion edition is a whole other movie. With subtitles by my late friend Lenny B…

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November 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM

David Cairns

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It takes two to MATANGO.
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Mushroom Cloudy with No Chance of Meatballs

Thanks to Scout Tafoya for recommending Ishiro Honda’s MATANGO aka MATANGO FUNGUS OF TERROR, one of the GOJIRA director’s relatively rare non-kaiju works from his, er, mature period. It…

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November 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM

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Fiona Watson

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#DiadelosMuertos #Samhain #Halloween A long time ago in #Scotland, #Halloween wasn't anything like its current iteration. We went with the old Celtic tradition of 'guising.' According to AI Overview 'guising' comprises - 'children dressing up in costumes to go door-to-door,

November 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM

David Cairns

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Strangely, there seem to be no movies of Arthur Machen's work. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/r...

Rhymes with “Blacken”

Arthur Machen is really terrific. And according to the IMDb, unless I’m much deceived, he’s never been adapted to film. Ambrose Bierce has countless adaptationsm the Inaccurate Movie Da…

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November 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM

David Cairns

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Film people please follow my wife @monsterfromid66.bsky.social In a nice way, I mean.

October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM

David Cairns

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Tree fellers wanted. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...

Tabanga Baranga Matango?

I’d never seen FROM HELL IT CAME and the only review I’d read is the famous Ed Naha line “And to hell it can go,” but I still knew it was a tree monster film. I wasn’t…

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October 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM

David Cairns

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A Japanese ghost story - with swordplay.
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Chanbara Raiders

KAIKI EDOGAWA RAN-SAN (1937) is a Japanese spookshow of considerable atmosphere. Written and directed by Kenji Shimomura, its title seems to reference author Edogawa Rampo, and its mood is certainl…

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October 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM

David Cairns

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"Again there was a silence — a silence as of consummated Evil brooding above its unnameable triumph." An original ghost story, comprised of 25 different paragraphs swiped from the page 66s of 25 different collections. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/p...