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Classic Movie Review

John E. Cornelison

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Join host archaeologist John as he reviews classic movies with his own spin. Using his archeological background, he connects historic, cinematic, genealogical, and current facts to add a dimension to his reviews that will increase your enjoyment of these classic movies. John tells all for movies over 25 years old. He also presents his world-famous short summaries of each classic movie reviewed. These classic movie reviews cover from silents by Charlie Chaplin, classic horror like Dracula (19 ...
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Doc Rotten and The Black Saint from Horror News Radio recap and review the best and worst horror films from the 1970s. Grindhouse. Blacksploitation. Hollywood Blockbusters. B Movies. Films like Exorcist | The Car | Phantasm | Halloween | The Incredible Melting Man | The Manitou | Beyond the Door | Vampire Circus | Dawn of the Dead
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⭐The Violent Men (1955) - Western Film Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 19 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits the…
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⭐Rancho Notorious (1952) - Western Film Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 11 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits th…
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Winchester '73 (1950) - Western Film Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 10 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits the f…
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We're turning to another tribute pairing this week, the second of fourth-quarter 2025. This time around, it's a celebration of the life and work of veteran actor and superstar Robert Redford, who passed away on September 16th, 2025. Directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Redford, 1972's "Jeremiah Johnson" tells one of the true-ish tale of the Amer…
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⭐The Furies (1950) - Western Film Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 09 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits the fata…
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⭐I Shot Jessie James (1949) - Western Film Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 08 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits…
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⭐Lust For Gold (1949) - Western Film Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 07 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits the f…
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⭐Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - The MacGuffin That Changed Film Noir ⭐ 🍿 Kiss Me Deadly (1955) is a hard-edged film noir that follows private investigator Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) after he picks up a desperate woman, Christina Bailey (Cloris Leachman), and is pulled into a violent hunt for a mysterious, glowing box. The case spirals through corrupt cops…
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⭐Station West (1948) - Western Film Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 06 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits the fa…
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⭐The Walking Hills (1949) - Western Film Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 05 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits t…
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“What is real? Are you certain you know what reality is? How do you know that at this second you aren’t asleep in your beds dreaming that you are here in this theater? Ah, yes… it all seems too real.” Are you sure this guy is a wizard? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc […]Kirjoittanut Doc Rotten and The Black Saint
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⭐Blood on the Moon (1948) - Western Film Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 04 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits t…
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⭐Ramrod (1947) - Western Film Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 03 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits the fatalism…
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The last of the original horror franchises is the topic of this episode as we finish 2025's Halloween celebration! Directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written y Victor Miller and Ron Kurz, 1980's "Firday the 13th" introduced the world to Camp Crystal Lake and the myth of Jason! Our story begins in 1958, when we see what we'll come to realize is the …
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⭐Pursued (1947) - Western Film Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 02 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits the fatalis…
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⭐The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) - Western Film Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 01 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits…
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⭐Western Noir Gunsmoke Meets Shadows Day 00 NOIRvember Celebration⭐ 🍿This series explores the haunting intersection of the Western and film noir genres—a cinematic meeting of wide-open frontiers and shadow-drenched moral dilemmas. Across 30 carefully chosen films, the reviews trace how the stoic gunfighter inherits the fatalism of the detective and…
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It's Halloween time again, and we're looking at the last two original horror franchises we haven't done yet! First up - a story that starts off a thriller, turns to horror, and then clips into the realm of science fiction as well! Written and directed by Don Coscarelli, 1979's "Phantasm" kicks off with a cemetery, an amorous couple, and a stabbing,…
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⭐Village of the Damned (1960) - Still Creeps Us Out Today⭐ 🍿John Carpenter once remade it, but Village of the Damned (1960), directed by Wolf Rilla, remains the definitive version of John Wyndham's novel The Midwich Cuckoos. Set in a peaceful English village where everyone mysteriously falls unconscious, the film follows the aftermath as every woma…
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“The dead of night exists in all of us, and no one knows at what strange, unexpected moment it will make itself known. And so tonight, for your entertainment, three tales: one of mystery, one of imagination, and one of terror.” Yay! Break out the popcorn! Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill […]…
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As we continue our pairing of superhero origin stories in the MCU, we move ahead three years to what is arguably the best origin story to come out of Marvel studios yet! Directed by Joe Johnston, 2011's "Captain America: The First Avenger" begins with a team of scientists in the Arctic circle investigaving something that the shifting ice has reveal…
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It's the start of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) for this pairing, and two superhero origin stories, including arguably the best one! But we start as the MCU started, with the very first film of "Phase 1" and an interesting choice it was! Directed by Jon Vavreau himself, 2008's "Iron Man" tells the story of tech mogul, inventor, and playboy To…
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⭐The Unsuspected (1947) - Claude Rains in Shadow⭐ 🍿 Michael Curtiz's The Unsuspected (1947) is a mid-era Film Noir built on elegance, deceit, and murder, anchored by Claude Rains as Victor Grandison, a refined radio host with sinister secrets. The ensemble—Audrey Totter, Joan Caulfield, Ted North, Constance Bennett, Hurd Hatfield, Fred Clark, and J…
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“I’ll find you. I don’t give up. Sweet dreams, Elizabeth.” Somehow, it doesn’t seem like Elizabeth’s sweet dreams are his goal. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – as they take in another classy TV movie from the 1970s, John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me! (1978). Decades […]…
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Our second film honoring Graham Greene, who passed away on September 1st, 2025, brings us to a much more recent historical story. Loosely based on the Wounded Knee Incident of 1973, and directed by Michael Apted, 1992's "Thunderheart" follows FBI Agent Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) who, because of his Sioux heritage, is assigned to investigate a murder on…
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This pairing pays tribute to Native American actor Graham Greene. Born to the Oneida tribe on the Six Nations Reservation in Ontario, Canada, Greene acted in over 180 projects over his 73-year lifespan. Greene passed away on September 1st, 2025, leaving behind an amazing body of work. But the role he's likely most known for comes from a film that n…
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⭐Star Trek TOS Movie Reviews - Does B-G-B-G-B-G Hold Up⭐ 🍿 Description. 🍿 📖This video explores the "Bad-Good-Bad-Good-Bad-Good" fan theory across the six Star Trek films drawn from The Original Series era. Beginning with Robert Wise's Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)—a visually ambitious, philosophical sci-fi—through Nicholas Meyer's Star Trek …
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“Remember what I’ve always told you: The wages of sin is gonorrhea, syphilis, and death.” – Ma Cobb, Deranged. It’s hard to argue with that. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – as they have a bit of fun creating their own top 10s from this […]Kirjoittanut Doc Rotten and The Black Saint
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Our second film has become something of a cultural signpost about the longevity and legacy of 1950s and 60s soul music! Directed by Alan Parker, 1991's "The Commitments" chronicles the rise and fall of something of an anomaly: An Irish Soul band! Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins) has decided he wants to found, and manage, an Irish soul band. The only …
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This week (and next) we're looking at films about music bands. We're starting off with a film that starred an actual rock legend, alongside (at the time) a rising star! Written and directed by Paul Schrader, 1987's "Light of Day" follows the lives of two working-class siblilngs, Joe Rasnick (Michael J. Fox) and his sister Patti (Joan Jett), trying …
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⭐Murder, My Sweet (1944) - The Noir That Made Marlowe Dangerous⭐ 🍿Murder, My Sweet (1944) reimagines Raymond Chandler's hardboiled world as a brisk, shadow‑soaked Film Noir anchored by Dick Powell's Philip Marlowe. Told in flashback after a blinding confrontation, the story drags Marlowe through a tangle of a missing woman, stolen jade, and lethal …
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“The world has caught up with me and surpassed me. It’s drivel. 90 years ago, I was a freak. Today, I’m an amateur.” If you work at it, you can still regain your “freak” status. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – in 1979 San Francisco […]Kirjoittanut Doc Rotten and The Black Saint
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