I'm trained as a film archivist, but am currently an archivist at a medical lab who dabbles in film on my own time.
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The Amityville Horror 2005
I had been curious to see this, since the original was something I eagerly awaited airing on TBS as a child, and after watching I wouldn't sleep for two nights. Plus I had hear Ryan Reynolds was especially hot.
The good is that the whole cast does a very good job, giving the parts more conviction than the script requires. And on a technical level it's generally well made, but for starters the prologue should have a flashing lights seizure…
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Story of a Bad Boy 1999
I was 17 in 1999 when this film came out, and always had my feelers out for gay themed movies, but I had never heard of this one before seeing it listed in the LGBTQ section at tubitv.com. If you're reading this review, I'll spare you a synopsis as you've probably already read it.
This is one of the warmer, more light-hearted takes on the coming out story I've seen. No anguish or hand-wringing from the lead or the parents,…
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The End of the Rainbow 1916
This actually survives complete at the Museum of Modern Art in a beautiful tinted and toned original release print. I, of course, viewed the film in motion from a reference print made from the dupe negative.
The story is of the willful daughter of a lumber magnate who goes to investigate a dispute between mountain people and her father's lumber company under an assumed identity. Think Metropolis. She falls for one of the mountain men who is a leader of…
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The Spotted Lily 1917
I was able to see this at the Library of Congress while doing research on the Bluebird Photoplays brand distributed by Universal 1916-early 1919. It is one of the few feature films from the Dawson Film Find out of the Yukon to survive with all of its reels accounted for and with its narrative more or less intact.
The early scenes set in rural France are quite stunningly shot, the exteriors as well as some very carefully lit interiors. Fortunately…
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