The Chair’s Hollidaysburg + Not Cool (2014)
Reviews of the Starz TV series The Chair (Anchor Bay) + the resulting films Hollidaysburg and Not Cool.
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Woody Allen’s Love and Death + The Purple Rose of Cairo
Reviews of Twilight Time’s latest Woody Allen releases on Blu – Love and Death (1975) and The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985).
The Films of Maziar Bahari and the Problem with Rosewater
The films of journalist Maziar Bahari are contrasted with Jon Stewart’s flawed Rosewater (Universal), including And Along Came a Spider (2003), Mohammad and the Matchmaker (2004), Targets: Reporters in Iraq (2005), An Iranian Odyssey: Mossadegh, Oil and the 1953 Coup (2010), and From Cyrus to Ahmadinejad: The Not So Secret Iran-Israel War (2012).
Rebel Pedagogues, Part 1: Creationism vs. Evolution, and Being in One’s Prime
Tales of Rebel Pedagogues on Blu from Twilight Time: Evolutionists vs. Creationists in Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind (1960) + losing one’s ‘prime’ in Jay Presson Allen’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969).
Nuclear Madness, Part 1: When the Wind Blows (1986), Threads (1984), and The War Game (1965)
In Part 1 of this series on anti-nuclear dramas, three differing levels of British Bleakism: Raymond Briggs’ When the Wind Blows (1986) on Blu from Twilight Time, Mick Jackson’s Threads (1986), and Peter Watkins’ The War Game (1965).
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