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Samantha Glasser
Dec 10, 20204 min read
Christmas Watch: Christmas Holiday (1944)
Join us Tuesdays and Thursdays in December for our Christmas Watch. Each time you comment and share a post, you are entered into a...
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Samantha Glasser
Dec 8, 20204 min read
Christmas Watch: The Crowded Day AKA Shop Spoiled (1954)
Join us Tuesdays and Thursdays in December for our Christmas Watch. Each time you comment and share a post, you are entered into a...
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Adam Williams
Dec 3, 20204 min read
Christmas Watch: Bachelor Mother (1939)
Join us Tuesdays and Thursdays in December for our Christmas Watch. Each time you comment and share a post, you are entered into a...
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Samantha Glasser
Dec 1, 20204 min read
Christmas Watch: It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
Join us Tuesdays and Thursdays in December for our Christmas Watch. Each time you comment and share a post, you are entered into a...
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Samantha Glasser
Nov 26, 20205 min read
Thanksgiving Turkeys: The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
Adam and Samantha review the movie Jack Benny starred in and loved to ridicule. A: In The Horn Blows at Midnight, Jack Benny plays the...
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Adam Williams
Nov 25, 20205 min read
Drumsticks (1910), a lost Thanksgiving classic
Albert E. Smith’s memoir about the early days of film, Two Reels and a Crank is crammed with anecdotes about the meteoric rise of...
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Samantha Glasser
Nov 19, 20203 min read
Thanksgiving Turkeys: The Right of Way (1931)
Rodney and Samantha discuss this creaky early talkie. S: The Right of Way is about a prominent lawyer whose marriage is falling apart and...
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Adam Williams
Nov 12, 20203 min read
Thanksgiving Turkeys: Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956)
This month we discuss famous turkeys, notoriously bad films. In this installment, we welcome Rodney Bowcock into the fold as he and Adam...
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Adam Williams
Nov 8, 20205 min read
The Film Bench--Charles Bickford in Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)
Here’s the latest in a series of examinations of 16mm films from my cluttered shelves. Charles Bickford looks like a dockworker, copper...
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Samantha Glasser
Nov 5, 20203 min read
Thanksgiving Turkeys: The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)
This month Adam and Samantha discuss famous turkeys, notoriously bad films. S: The Terror of Tiny Town is about a band of cattle rustlers...
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Samantha Glasser
Oct 31, 20204 min read
Halloween Watch: Sh! The Octopus (1937)
Adam and Samantha discuss their last film in honor of Halloween. If you have enjoyed this series, please join them every Thursday in...
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Samantha Glasser
Oct 27, 20204 min read
Halloween Watch: Strait-Jacket (1964)
Join Adam and Samantha on their fourth Halloween watch. A: Here we have Joan Crawford in a post-Baby Jane suspense thriller written by...
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Samantha Glasser
Oct 22, 20204 min read
Halloween Watch: Strangler of the Swamp (1946)
Once again, join Adam and Samantha in their Halloween viewing. S: Strangler of the Swamp is an eerie story about a small-town legend. A...
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Samantha Glasser
Oct 19, 20205 min read
Halloween Watch: Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
Once again Adam and Samantha bring you their take on a spooky classic movie. S: The first time I saw this movie, years ago, I adored it....
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Adam Williams
Oct 17, 20202 min read
The Film Bench--A Sweetest Day Reverie
The team of O’Connor and Pettibone produced the one-reel music film The Sweetest Story Ever Told in 1933, featuring the 1853 ballad...
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Samantha Glasser
Oct 14, 20205 min read
Halloween Watch: Zombies on Broadway (1945)
In honor of Halloween, Adam and I have decided to watch a few themed movies and review them together here for you. We would love to hear...
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Adam Williams
Oct 11, 20204 min read
Film review--Hearts of the West (1975)
Hearts of the West was part of a wave of Hollywood nostalgia pictures in the 70s that generally could be divided into two camps. There...
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Adam Williams
Aug 30, 20206 min read
The Film Bench—A marriage…or a massacre?
Inspecting 16mm prints from my film closet. The Lady or the Tiger (1942) Going Viral in the Gilded Age “That Lady or Tiger riddle / That...
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Adam Williams
Aug 23, 20205 min read
The Film Inspection Bench--Bathing Beauties & Psychedelic Zugsmith
Maybe this will be a regular thing--a way to document the flotsam and jetsam that threads through my Eiki projector. I'll occasionally...
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Samantha Glasser
Mar 30, 20204 min read
Movie Review-- The Innocence of Ruth (1916)
A few years ago I noticed an uptick in the amount of people who were using Kickstarter to launch new vintage movie projects. One of the...
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