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CRY TOUGH may be my favorite film this year. Not because it’s a work of cinematic genius or anything like that. Just because it hits all my sweet spots and then some. Nymphomania! Judo! Stag films! Gas masks and stingy… Read More

A Glenn Ford double bill, with his son Peter as a special guest, signing his book GLENN FORD: A LIFE This show was packed to the rafters, a sold-out crowd full of famous names and classic stars who came out… Read More

I missed the Wednesday night feature, but even the endless construction fuckstickery can’t keep me away for long, so I was back in my usual seat last night for a Robert Ryan double bill. This was one I couldn’t miss… Read More

Granite-faced Charles McGraw is back for more, this time as an obsessed insurance investigator in LOOPHOLE. When nearly fifty Gs go missing during a routine audit, bank teller Sullivan is falsely accused of masterminding the brazen heist. He struggles to… Read More

Last night’s offering was a foreign intrigue double bill. First up, the atmospheric and delirious thriller JOURNEY INTO FEAR. This movie makes absolutely no sense, but I couldn’t have cared less. It was a weird, wild ride and I enjoyed… Read More

I love Charles McGraw. That profile, that voice. If I could go back in time and do a film adaptation of MONEY SHOT, I’d want McGraw to play Malloy. And THE THREAT is all about McGraw doing what he does… Read More

Seeing double again with this double shot of over-the-top melodrama. First up THE TWO MRS CARROLS. Bogart plays a possessive, psycho artist who poisons his first wife in order to marry Barbara Stanwyck. When homewrecking vixen Alexis Smith enters the… Read More

A boxing artist! An ice skating femme fatale! This show, featuring two rare titles not available on DVD, was one I’d been looking forward two since the line up was announced. First up WHIPLASH. You’d think that an artist would… Read More

Last night’s Los Angeles Film Noir Festival program featured a prison break double bill. First up, one of the best prison break movies of all time, BRUTE FORCE. I absolutely love this movie, one of the few out of this… Read More

http://christafaust.net/wp-admin/post-new.phpFirst night of the Los Angeles Film Noir Festival is always a blast. It’s great to see all the usual suspects and fellow die hard Noir junkies. Now, the movies: First up, Robert Taylor and Audrey Totter in THE INCREDIBLE… Read More