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...full of flammable alcohol. The move over Hedda’s duration from relative peace to high-strung shooting and burning is inexorable, highly telegraphed and oh-so-precisely plotted, rarely allowing a spare motivation or interaction to take place along the path to the final horror...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, ON THEATER | Title: Review: 'Hedda' Fueled by Destruction | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...suspect that some of his colleagues may in fact not be quite human. He is increasingly possessed by the idea that there are zombies--actual, nonmetaphorical zombies--in his office. Kings of Infinite Space (the reference is to Hamlet) is social satire that slides smoothly and surreally into horror, and if it loses a little of its emotional heft in the process, you don't really miss it. The glee with which Hynes choreographs an in-office zombie-vs.-stapler fight scene is compensation enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way We Live Now | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

SATURDAY: Black Friday (1940) and The Clack Cat. (1941) Classic Horror's two features explore brain transplants with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and comic mayhem with Basil Rathbone and Broderick Crawford. CH.5...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

SATURDAY: Black Friday (1940) and The Clack Cat. (1941) Classic Horror's two features explore brain transplants with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and comic mayhem with Basil Rathbone and Broderick Crawford. CH.5...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

...course, be said that such a film as that which Laurence Stallings has produced, like "What Price Glory" like post-war "horror" fiction, is only an intensified reaction. There has been a certain sophistication and a certain weariness in the reaction of the last eight years, however, which must help to keep the idealism of pacifists from too lofty soaring. Every human being is by definition a pacifist. But it is only in the realization by human beings, a realization that is quickened and crystallized by such social influences on public opinion as "The Big Parade", that they are pacifists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIG PARADE | 4/21/2004 | See Source »

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