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Stripes

The comedy trilogy of my childhood was Animal House, Caddyshack and Stripes. R-ratings weren’t strictly enforced, and I had seen this trilogy by the age of 13.  I had to see it with Siskel and Ebert giving it good reviews. The film began as a Cheech and Chong vehicle in… 

The Suspect

Robert Siodmak is a name you never hear in film history, but his short American career includes some amazing work.  He dabbled in the film industry in Germany, fleeing Nazism to Paris and then fleeing Nazism again to California. After directing “Son of Dracula”, Siodmak found his niche in the… 

Scrooge

Each year, television is inundated with Christmas movies, and some channels play them like radio stations play Christmas music  – wall to wall. I rarely see “Scrooge,” by far my favorite version of the famed Charles Dickens classic, “A Christmas Carol”.  There are tons of them, mind you, but to…