Kick-Back Friday: #203
The return of Kick-Back. Brighton Rock (1947) and Brighton Rock (2010): A compare-and-contrast exercise of the screen adaptations of Graham Greene’s novel of...
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About Pathophilia
Kick-Back Friday: #202
In the Loop (2009): Yowzah. A gnashing, ripping, gnawing political satire from native Scotsman Armando Ianucci* and three British wags. Think Aaron Sorkin, but funny...
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Kick-Back Friday: #201
Perrier’s Bounty (2009): Yes, fine. It may be just another ultraviolent rom-com from Ireland, in the spirit of the savage and savagely funny stories of the...
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Kick-Back Friday: #200
Patterns (1956): Before there was “Mad Men” or some other TV drama depicting the ruthlessness of business and the machinations of its executives, there was...
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Kick-Back Friday: #199
The Hospital (1971): Paddy Chayefsky’s biting satire of the bureaucracy and incompetence of inpatient care, some of which rings true 40 years later…sadly....
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Kick-Back Friday: #198
Small Town Murder Songs (2010): A heavy and heavily mustachioed Peter Stormare (the kidnapping guy from Fargo) plays Walter, a born-again cop who investigates the local...
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