Daily Archives: February 27, 2010

TCM Thrillers (March 1 – 7)

February 27, 2010
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TCM Thrillers (March 1 – 7)

This week: * Monday—Brando is all at sea. * Tuesday—Sydney Greenstreet likes to talk to people who like to talk. * Wednesday—John Hurt gets a great big hug—on his face. * Thursday—John Garfield is in a fog—several of them, in fact. * Friday—Karloff wants to terrorize Nicholson, but more likely it was the other way around. * Saturday—Peter Sellers aspires to greatness—as a criminal. * Sunday—The girl can’t help it: Ava Gardner is a femme fatale. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Monday—March 1st 9:30 AM—Possessed (1947) A married woman’s passion for a former love drives her mad. Cast: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC 8:00 PM—Morituri (1965) The English blackmail a German expatriate into a Nazi rubber shipment. Cast: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin. Dir: Bernhard Wicki. BW-123 mins, CC, Letterbox Format ———- Tuesday—March 2nd 9:30 AM—The Maltese Falcon (1941) Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet. Dir: John Huston. BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS ———- Wednesday—March 3rd 11:30 AM—Adam’s Rib (1949) Husband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women’s rights case. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday. Dir:

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‘Cop Out’ Doesn’t Just Stink, But It’s Racist, Too?

February 27, 2010
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‘Cop Out’ Doesn’t Just Stink, But It’s Racist, Too?

The new movie “Cop Out” has created a lot of buzz, and not just because critics are hammering Kevin Smith’s homage to the ’80s “buddy cop comedies” for being painfully un-funny. The film is apparently racist, too. Film critic Christian Toto gives us the run-down: Armond White of the New York Press, a reliably contrarian voice in film critic circles, slams star Tracy Morgan for his performance: “His broad face and goofy baritone are the essence of how Hollywood once tried to stereotype Louis Armstrong; yet Morgan embraces the denigration, performing a string of mortifying buffooneries.” Critic Emanuel Levy also found fault with Morgan’s character and how the film depicts the Latino heavies in the film. “There’s also an uncomfortable racial awkwardness to a great deal of the material that makes “Cop Out” feel rather unseemly. The opening Morgan monologue is dangerously close to a minstrel act. (Not to mention a recurring and very abysmal subplot involving his raging insecurities about his wife’s alleged infidelities.) “Worst of all, the Mexican criminal lords that become the movie’s traditional heavies are so lazily conceived, overscaled and outrageously drawn that turns “Cop Out” not only into a bad film though a somewhat unpleasant

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