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Nightmare Alley: Sad but True, by David Bax

Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley is, to be clear, not a remake of Edmund Goulding’s 1947 film but rather another adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel. The hallmarks of noir fiction–a dissatisfied man cast his scruples aside and attempts...

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Jim’s Top Ten of 2018

For a long time my relationship with 2018’s cinematic offerings resembled that of the protagonist of a romantic comedy who fell in love with his best friend: I was always looking for something that would sweep me off my feet...

Snakes on a Midnight Meat Train, by David Bax 0

Snakes on a Midnight Meat Train, by David Bax

A cult film requires a gestation period to be born. Sometimes all that is required is the time it takes a film to move from theaters to home video, as with Office Space or, arguably, The Doom Generation. Other times,...