Articles by Alan Bacchus

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  Time Limit

  Karl Malden

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2009

  The great character actor Karl Malden only directed one film: Time Limit. This 1957 military drama about a mysterious case of treason withi...

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  The King and Four Queens

  Raoul Walsh

  PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2009

  Clark Gable in one of his last roles stars in this recently revived 1956 western, directed by studio vet Raoul Walsh, about an escaped desp...

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  Crying Fist

  Seung-wan Ryoo

  PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2009

  This 2005 Korean effort arrives on DVD in North America this week. Imagine two parallel Rocky pictures mixed with Asian extremes and that p...

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  El Dorado

  Howard Hawks

  PUBLISHED May 22, 2009

  By 1967, a studio Western with John Wayne, directed by Hollywood legend Howard Hawks, just seemed obsolete and out of date. Hawks was known...

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  Serbis

  Brillante Mendoza

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2009

  A Filipino porno house is the setting of this late arrival from last year's Cannes Film Festival. In the style of trendy social realism we...

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  The Da Vinci Code [Blu-Ray]

  Ron Howard

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2009

  With these Dan Brown novels, Ron Howard has just about the sweetest gig in Hollywood: a veritable cash cow franchise not dependant on anyth...

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  It's Not Me I Swear!

  Philippe Falardeau

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2009

  It's Me I Swear sits somewhere between Crazy and A No Hit No Run Summer, two other semi-autobiographical French-Canadian films about kids c...

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  Action Boys

  Byung-Gil Jung

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  You have to be a little bit crazy to want to become a stuntman in the movies, risking your life in the name of entertainment yet doubling a...