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THE LONG WALK

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Does anyone out there remember They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? That 1969 film was based on a 1935 novel by Horace McCoy, inspired by the bizarre Depression-era craze of dance marathons. Slick entrepreneurs would hire out a ballroom or auditorium and cash customers would root for the couples who tried to stay upright on the dance floor for hours and days on end. I don’t know if that real-life fad sparked an idea in Stephen King’s head or not, but it’s the only movie I can think of that offers a point of comparison to The Long Walk, which was adapted from his early novel. (It was published under his pen name, Richard Bachman.) The new film, directed by Francis Lawrence and written by JT Mollner, takes place…

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MY “SCOOP” WITH ROBERT REDFORD

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I had the good fortune of meeting and interviewing Robert Redford a number of times, but none of those occasions caused quite the stir that my first encounter did. In those days, the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival (which was then the U.S. Film Festival) was held in a gigantic theater in Salt Lake City. I was there with a crew from Entertainment Tonight, but the only celebrity at the afterparty was an adolescent actress named Winona Ryder, who appeared in the opening night movie, Square Dance. (Our show didn’t value that brief interview until Ryder became a star; then they milked it for all it was worth.) The reason ET sent me at all was that the next morning, Saturday to be exact,…

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NEW ON 4K/BLU-RAY/DVD IN AUGUST

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The following article was written by my friend and colleague Alonso Duralde. You can learn more about him HERE.   NEW ON 4K/BLU-RAY/DVD IN AUGUST: KARATE KID, LILO & STITCH, BEYOND TRAINSPOTTING AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Karate Kid: Legends (Sony): This one got short shrift in theaters earlier this summer, but here’s hoping it finds its audience on home video. The charismatic Ben Wang takes over as the titular kid, a martial-arts prodigy uprooted from his home in China and moved to New York by his doctor mom (Ming-Na Wen). He not only runs afoul of an evil dojo but also finds time to train his girlfriend’s dad (Joshua Jackson), a pizzeria owner forced by gangsters to return to the boxing ring. All this and appearances…

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WATCHING TV TODAY: TO BINGE OR NOT TO BINGE

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For many years, my wife and I spent most of our evenings attending press screenings of new and upcoming films. That was our routine, and while I didn’t disdain television I rarely had time to watch it, let alone get hooked on a series. But things change. I no longer edit my annual Movie Guide, and I don’t work for a TV show that impels me to see almost every new theatrical release. The Covid lockdown may have been the ultimate reason I started watching more television…and liking it. My wife and daughter have always been TV junkies and will happily binge away for hours. I never imagined myself saying that I couldn’t name a feature this year that I anticipated with the same fervor I…

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A BIT OF CRUMPET

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Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. The Odd Job Probably not very high, or even known, for Monty Python fans is this film starring, and co-written by, Graham Chapman. Coming shortly before Life of Brian, Chapman teamed up playwright Bernard McKenna to adapt his own stage play for the big screen. Directed by Peter Medak, who a few years earlier had worked with comedian Peter Sellers on the slapstick flop Ghost in the Noonday Sun. So, when it came to handling outrageous comedians, it seemed like Medak was the man for the job, Odd Job that is. Because this is something of a curio piece for Python…

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A MODERN WESTERN THAT’S 95 YEARS OLD 

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Whatever your opinion of early talkies, you’re in for a jolt when you see Law and Order (1932), recently released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber. It isn’t just the bravura camerawork or the arresting performances by Walter Huston and Harry Carey, or its unstated comparison to the Prohibition era in which it was made. Everything about this compact movie is impressive, climaxed by a lightning-paced shootout on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. That sequence alone is worth the price of admission. I can’t imagine what audiences of 1932 thought of it. (It was reissued with a new title years later, yielding the garish poster shown above.) I was introduced to this unheralded movie by William K. Everson, who naturally knew about it and showed it decades ago.…

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NEW ON 4K/BLU-RAY/DVD IN JULY

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The following article was written by my friend and colleague Alonso Duralde. You can learn more about him HERE.  New On 4K/Blu-Ray/DVD in July: Sinners, Final Destination, Crumb Catcher and More NEW RELEASE WALL Sinners (WBD): Already a strong contender for best-of-2025 status, Ryan Coogler’s visionary vampire tale wraps its arms around lots of ideas – the history of race in America, cultural appropriation, the blues and its roots in gospel – and successfully tackles all of them. Michael B. Jordan gives a bravura performance as a pair of twin bootleggers who return home to Mississippi after stints fighting in WWI and running with the Chicago mob, and their dreams of opening a juke joint unfold and explode in violently unpredictable directions. From the performances to…

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