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They rob banks


Ok, get your hands up and don’t turn around. It’s Wednesday Night at the Movies again here at newcritics. Empty your pockets of comments and nobody’ll get hurt.
Few thoughts to mull over while we wait to get started. First, here’s part of a post I wrote way back in April when I [...]

‘It’s a movie, not a lifeboat’ - Tracy and Hepburn together again for the last time


Tracy was dying. Everybody working on Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner knew it. His heart was failing, his liver, his lungs. He was 68 years old. Same age Harrison Ford is now. But while Ford moves through Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as if he was 15, 20 years younger, [...]

Squeaking and sqawking with the animals


Our Wednesday Night at the Movies open thread on Doctor Dolittle is now open. Come on in. Watch where you step though. Lots of animals here. They can talk, they can cook, they can help sail a ship, but they can lift a shovel or push a broom and clean up [...]

On the symbolic nature of a broken air conditioner: In The Heat Of The Night and the rise of the New South


Hey, y’all. Welcome to our second open thread on the Oscar nominees for Best Picture of 1967. Tonight’s feature is In The Heat Of The Night starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. The thread officially opens at 10 PM Eastern, but if you’ve arrived a little early, don’t worry yourselves none. [...]

“They become their parents.”


Greetings. Relax. You have not been drafted. I’m just welcoming you to the first open thread in our new newcritics series of open threads, Wednesday Night at the Movies. The thread officially opens at 10 PM, Eastern. But if you’re here a little early, don’t be chagrined. Step right [...]