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Movies Till Dawn: More Biographies, Real and Imagined

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Paul Gaita

“Jazz on a Summer’s Day” (1959, Kino Lorber) I wrote about this exceptional concert film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival when Kino Lorber Repertory reissued it virtually to theaters in 2020 (which only feels like a million years ago); … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Pre-Halloween Pleasantries (Nothing Creepy* Here Edition)

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Paul Gaita

“The Secret Garden” (2020, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) Orphaned after the death of her parents from a cholera outbreak in India, ten-year-old Dixie Egerickx is sent to the English estate of her distant uncle (Colin Firth), where she discovers the … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: New Year, (Mostly) New Movies

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Paul Gaita

“Mid90s” (2018, Lionsgate) Confident directorial debut by actor Jonah Hill, who depicts, in granular detail, middle-schooler Sunny Suljic‘s attempts to find much-needed acceptance with a group of older skateboarders. Hill has the Clinton Era cultural details down pat (especially the … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Post-Thanksgiving Small Plates of Reality

Posted on November 23, 2018 by Paul Gaita

“Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” (2017, Kino Lorber) Delirious, gossip-laden portrait of nonagenarian Scotty Bowers, who from a gas station at 5777 Hollywood Blvd., is alleged to have provided discreet sexual favors to a galaxy of Golden Age … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Watch It! This Weekend (Salvation Edition)

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Paul Gaita

Please note – possible spoilers in this first review. “The Good Place: Season Two” (2017-2018, Shout Factory) Hard-living but recently deceased Kristen Bell and her equally dead friend, ethics professor William Jackson Harper, find that their home in the afterlife, … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Week (My Friend Drummer Edition)

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Paul Gaita

“My Friend Dahmer” (2017, FilmRise) There’s no question that Jeffrey (Ross Lynch) is a little strange: he wanders through school like a ghost, stiff and unsmiling, except when feigning a mental handicap for the amusement/dismay of his classmates. But that … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Documentary Roundup – Holy Roller Hot Rat Dragon Confidential Edition

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Paul Gaita

“Marjoe” (1972, Cinedigm) In this Oscar-winning documentary, child preacher turned rock and roll styled evangelist Marjoe Gortner takes his final tour of Pentacostal revival meetings across the United States, accompanied by an undercover documentary crew intent on revealing the big … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Programmer’s Notes – Binge Watching as Patriotic Duty, Part 3 (Tomato Tarzan Gong Show Edition)

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Paul Gaita

“The Gong Show Movie” (1980, Shout Factory) is a semi-fictionalized look at the mayhem that swirled around its creator and host, Chuck Barris, as he showcased the most surreal and inept acts imaginable on his late ‘70s syndicated amateur talent … Continue reading →

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