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Activist & Political · African American · Societal Trends

A Star Is Shorn: Thanks to Woefully Underinformed Campus Activists, Acting Legend, Badger Alum, and Civil Rights Champion Fredric March Is Suddenly “Off Wisconsin”

November 25, 2020

Fredric March stands alongside four other mid-century drum majors for civil rights during the 1943 national radio broadcast of “Race-Relations Sunday.” Left to right: concert soprano Dorothy Maynor, actor Canada[…]

Crime · Reviews

Children of Violence: Studies show PG-13 more violent than R

November 12, 2013

“Studies like this misunderstand the basic use of cinematic myth (which includes action films) as a ceremonial exercise in psychic catharsis, meant to appease the angry darkness of the masculine unconscious.

Pre-Code · Reviews

Ten Cents a Dance!

August 19, 2008

TCM had another one of their Stanywck days today, and tivo nabbed me TEN CENTS A DANCE (1931). Stanwyck is on a great slow burn here, starting out as a[…]

Reviews

There Will Be Blood and Queen Elizabeth: The Golden Age

February 28, 2008

Thrilling and underrated is how I find ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE. I’ve read some of the reviews and probably waited this long because of them, but now I’d like to[…]

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A Star Is Shorn: Thanks to Woefully Underinformed Campus Activists, Acting Legend, Badger Alum, and Civil Rights Champion Fredric March Is Suddenly “Off Wisconsin”

Children of Violence: Studies show PG-13 more violent than R

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Ten Cents a Dance!

There Will Be Blood and Queen Elizabeth: The Golden Age

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