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Author: Rachel Bellwoar

Film Reviews 

Carole Lombard And Pre-Code Charles Laughton: ‘White Woman’ Reviewed

Try as Judith (Carole Lombard) might to put the past behind her, bad reputations tend to stick, so when she

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February 6, 2023February 6, 2023 Rachel Bellwoar 96 Views Blu-Ray, Carole Lombard, Kino Lorber, White Woman
Comics Interviews 

Talking ‘Queenie: Godmother of Harlem’ With Elizabeth Colomba And Aurelie Levy

Before “Bumpy” Johnson (who readers may know thanks to the MGM+ TV show, Godfather of Harlem), Harlem had a Godmother

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February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 Rachel Bellwoar 292 Views Abrams ComicArts, Aurelie Levy, Elizabeth Colomba, Queenie: Godmother of Harlem
Film Reviews 

Blu-Ray Review: Arrow’s ‘Gothic Fantastico: Four Italian Tales of Terror’

America and England may have gotten the ball rolling with bringing Gothic horror films back into the zeitgeist (with Hammer

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January 13, 2023January 10, 2023 Rachel Bellwoar 365 Views Arrow Films, Gothic Fantastico: Four Italian Tales of Terror, Lady Morgan's Vengeance, The Blancheville Monster, The Third Eye, The Witch
Comics Interviews 

Talking With The Creators Of ‘Carmilla: The First Vampire’

It’s not like New York City’s never known suffering. That’s why Athena feels like something’s up. People on the street

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January 10, 2023January 10, 2023 Rachel Bellwoar 493 Views Amy Chu, Carmilla, Carmilla: The First Vampire, Dark Horse Comics, Sal Cipriano, soo lee, Vampire
Books Interviews 

An Interview With The Writers Of ‘TCM Underground’

Mainstream movies serve their purpose (and yeah, a number of them are quite good) but there’s nothing quite like falling

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January 9, 2023January 7, 2023 Rachel Bellwoar 652 Views Millie De Chirico, Quatoyiah Murry, Running Press, TCM, TCM Underground
Film Reviews 

No Gun, No Plea Of Self-Defense: ‘Warning Shot’ Reviewed

It isn’t a question of whether Sergeant Tom Valens (David Janssen) killed Dr. James Ruston (Donald Curtis). It’s a question

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January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 Rachel Bellwoar 457 Views Blu-Ray, Kino Lorber, Warning Shot
Books Reviews 

How The Worst Award Show Ever Makes For Essential Reading: Amber Ruffin And Lacey Lamar’s ‘The World Record Book Of Racist Stories’ Reviewed

With season three of The Amber Ruffin Show recently wrapped and the series’ future not yet secure (please renew The

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December 23, 2022December 23, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 1030 Views Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, Late Night with Seth Meyers, NBC, Peacock, The Amber Ruffin Show, The World Record Book of Racist Stories
Reviews TV 

DVD Review: ‘Recipes For Love And Murder’ Season 1

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Few people embody that saying more than Recipes for Love and Murder’s Tannie

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December 22, 2022December 22, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 493 Views Acorn DVD, AcornTV, DVD, Recipes for Love and Murder
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Comics Interviews 

Talking ‘Betty: The Final Girl’ With Writer Micol Ostow

There’s only one Riverdale resident who could ever live-up to the superlative “most likely to survive a horror movie.” That’s

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December 16, 2022December 16, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 540 Views Archie Comics, Betty: The Final Girl, Jack Morelli, Laura Braga, Matt Herms, Micol Ostow
Film Reviews 

An Argentinian Take On Fritz Lang’s ‘M’: ‘The Black Vampire’ Reviewed

Following last year’s release of Román Viñoly Barreto’s The Beast Must Die, Flicker Alley has double downed and released another

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December 15, 2022December 16, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 447 Views Flicker Alley, noir, Noirvember, The Black Vampire
Film Reviews 

Esther Williams’ Technicolor Neo-Noir: ‘The Unguarded Moment’ Reviewed

As much as her colleagues would love to blame her marital status for everything, being single isn’t the reason Lois

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December 14, 2022December 13, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 405 Views Blu-Ray, Esther Williams, Kino Lorber, The Unguarded Moment
Film Reviews 

Pre-Code Horror: ‘Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde’ Reviewed

Science is about testing boundaries. In Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, that’s exactly what Dr. Jekyll (Frederic March) does

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December 8, 2022December 9, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 477 Views Blu-Ray, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, horror, Miriam Hopkins, Warner Archive
Comics Interviews 

These Mermaids Have Teeth: An Interview With ‘Black Cloak’ Creators Kelly Thompson And Meredith McClaren

Detective Phaedra Essex is used to being unpopular, but when her ex-fiancé is murdered, there’s no way she’s not working

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December 5, 2022December 2, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 858 Views Becca Carey, Black Cloak, Image Comics, Kelly Thompson, Meredith McClaren
Film Interviews 

Jami Belushi Talks ‘Hotel For The Holidays’

Managing a hotel is a lot easier with a best friend, which is where Jami Belushi’s Kiki comes in in.

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December 2, 2022December 1, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 615 Views Amazon Freevee, Christmas, Hotel for the Holidays, Jami Belushi, Madelaine Petsch
Film Reviews 

Noir Double Feature: ‘Kiss The Blood Off My Hands’ And ‘Larceny’

From Key Largo to The Big Clock, 1948 was a great year for film noir. That statement holds true in

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November 29, 2022November 28, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 439 Views Abandoned, Blu-Ray, Deported, Indicator, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Larceny, Naked Alibi, noir, The Web, Universal Noir
Film Reviews 

Hunger During Wartime: ‘Le Soldatesse’ Reviewed

There have been many films about WWII. Valerio Zurlini’s Le Soldatesse (also known as The Camp Followers) is a film about hunger and what

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November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 374 Views Anna Karina, Blu-Ray, Kino Lorber, Le Soldatesse, Raro, The Camp Followers
Books Interviews 

An Interview With Writer Will Scheibel On ‘Gene Tierney: Star Of Hollywood’s Homefront’

For anyone who’s been partaking in Noirvember this year, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered the subject of Will Scheibel‘s

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November 28, 2022November 26, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 793 Views Gene Tierney, Gene Tierney: Star of Hollywood's Home Front, Wayne State University Press, Will Scheibel
Film Reviews 

Boxing And Barbara Stanwyck: ‘Golden Boy’ Reviewed

In cases where a film has a predominately male cast, it’s always best to be wary about how plum a

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November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 598 Views Barbara Stanwyck, Blu-Ray, Golden Boy, Imprint Films, William Holden
Reviews TV 

Review: ‘Pennyworth’ S03 Ep.10 – ‘Highland Wedding’

All the Cat Stevens songs in the world can’t make Pennyworth‘s season finale any better but, like a spoonful of

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November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 731 Views Batman, DC, HBO Max, Pennyworth, Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
Comics Interviews 

An Interview With ‘Archie Vs. The World’ Creators Aubrey Sitterson And Jed Dougherty

Coming this January … it’s a Mad Max world and the residents of Riverdale are just trying to survive in

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November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 756 Views Archie Comics, Archie vs. the World, Aubrey Sitterson, Jack Morelli, Jed Dougherty, Matt Herms
Reviews TV 

Review: ‘Pennyworth’ S03 Ep.9 – ‘Rag Trade’

Nothing takes the romance out of a proposal than saying you’re ready “to do the right thing” over and over

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November 19, 2022November 19, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 565 Views Batman, DC, HBO Max, Pennyworth, Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
Film Interviews 

She Has Her Father’s Fangs: An Interview With ‘Blood Relatives’ Star And Director, Noah Segan

For all that vampires may be undead, that doesn’t always stop them from procreating. Case in point: Francis (Noah Segan)

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November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 495 Views Blood Relatives, Noah Segan, Shudder, vampires, Victoria Moroles
Reviews TV 

Review: ‘Pennyworth’ S03 Ep.8 – ‘Red Marauder’

Thomas (Ben Aldridge) is ghosting Martha (Emma Paetz), the British military have taken over Salt’s lab so they can use

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November 10, 2022November 8, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 662 Views Batman, DC, HBO Max, Pennyworth, Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
Reviews TV 

Review: ‘Pennyworth’ S03 Ep.7 – ‘Don’t Push It’

Similar to the Tower of London prison break in episode four, getting Zahra’s dad (David Yip) out of the secret

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November 3, 2022November 1, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 852 Views Batman, DC, HBO Max, Pennyworth, Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
Film Interviews 

Grief, Friendship, And Aliens: An Interview With ‘I’m Totally Fine’ Writer, Alisha Ketry

Vanessa (Jillian Bell) is supposed to be celebrating the signing of a distribution deal on the organic soda she made

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November 2, 2022November 3, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 587 Views Alisha Ketry, Brandon Dermer, Decal, I'm Totally Fine, Jillian Bell, Natalie Morales
Film Interviews 

An Interview With ‘Voodoo Macbeth’ Star, Inger Tudor

Before he directed Citizen Kane or scared people into thinking the planet was being invaded by aliens with his radio

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November 2, 2022October 31, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 451 Views Inger Tudor, Lightyear Entertainment, Macbeth, orson welles, Voodoo Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Events Film 

31st Philadelphia Film Festival: ‘The Passengers Of The Night’ Reviewed

The Passengers of the Night Directed by Mikhaël Hers Screenplay by Mikhaël Hers, Maud Ameline, and Mariette Désert Life isn’t exactly starry for

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November 1, 2022November 1, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 531 Views PFF31, Philadelphia Film Festival, The Passengers of the Night
Film Reviews 

Spend Halloween With Roger Corman’s ‘The Raven’ (1963)

While one could argue that the speaker’s language in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven is good for a chuckle or

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October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 496 Views Blu-Ray, Boris Karloff, Edgar Allan Poe, Kino Lorber, Peter Lorre, The Raven, Vincent Price
Reviews TV 

Review: ‘Pennyworth’ S03 Ep.6 – ‘Hedgehunter’

If Thomas (Ben Aldridge) and Martha (Emma Paetz) can have a daughter, does that mean they can also get a

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October 28, 2022October 28, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 541 Views Batman, DC, HBO Max, Pennyworth, Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
Books Reviews 

‘Sea Serpent’s Heir’ Book One Reviewed

If you ever wondered what it looks like to capture a relationship in two panels, that’s exactly what Mairghread Scott

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October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 681 Views Ariana Maher, Image Comics, Mairghread Scott, Pablo Tunica, Pirate's Daughter, Sea Serpent's Heir, Skybound Comet
Reviews TV 

Review: ‘Pennyworth’ S03 Ep.5 – ‘Rhyme ‘N’ Reason’

There’s nothing like when you can tell a show is trying to rush through a character’s backstory. Maybe that’s a

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October 20, 2022October 19, 2022 Rachel Bellwoar 1051 Views Batman, DC, HBO Max, Pennyworth, Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
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