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| 54 73% | The Beach Party (1931) - Rated 18 Apr 2024
"It's an exercise in weaponized picnicking, as Mickey and Horace takes their dates to the beach only to have things foiled by that dang octopus. Featuring the latest fashion in beach umbrellas."
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| 58 77% | The Spider and the Fly (1931) - Rated 18 Apr 2024
"Houseflies cease their musical merriment to wage war upon a marauding spider. Curiously, flies in this reality posses four limbs, and spiders six."
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| 57 76% | The Barnyard Broadcast (1931) - Rated 18 Apr 2024
"Another concert on the farm, you ask? Why yes, though Mickey's invested in some radio broadcasting equipment, and Minnie has perfected her foot-harpist technique. Though the actual twist for this one comes in the form of a cat and her kittens who arrive half way through to provide complications."
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| 57 76% | The Clock Store (1931) - Rated 18 Apr 2024
"Well, they've already had a toy shop, so why not a clock shop? It's a cute one."
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| 46 68% | It (1927) - Rated 16 Apr 2024
"A big ol' obvious star vehicle from the height of Clara Bow's run as a top draw at the box office, with a packed five years or so as the big flapper specialist under her belt. Entirely default mild romantic comedy, but that doesn't matter much, as it's really about how charming Bow can be on screen, and apparently the answer is "very". The usual Cinderella and misunderstanding angles provide setup for her to play the "sweet, plucky, girl who isn't bad as all that" in this case."
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| 33 45% | The House That Shadows Built (1931) - Rated 15 Apr 2024
"Basically, a bit of promotional filler, though not a bad one to look back on, with all its quick little clips of silent stars (some from now-lost films), and its announcer excitedly calling out their names, followed by a cheesily presented bunch of current headshots and marquees. It then spends the latter half in preview reel mode, except for the main reason it's remembered: A newly filmed version of one of the Marx's classic moments lifted from their 1924 stage review I'll Say She Is."
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| 72 89% | Grand Hotel (1932) - Rated 15 Apr 2024
"Splashily positioned as a model for the all-star ensemble concept; it works well as such. Hard not to, with this MGM stable, though the script affords Crawford and John Barrymore the most nuance to work with (poor Garbo gets two basic melodramatic notes to play—"insecure artiste" and "in love"—though in recompense she gets to kiss Barrymore quite a bit). Though a lot of its real effectiveness is down to the direction, ceaselessly whirling around all these characters."
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| 33 45% | The Incorrigible Dukane (1915) - Rated 14 Apr 2024
"It's nice something from this early in John Barrymore's film days is preserved, though it's a bland cousin to the formula Douglas Fairbanks was starting out with much more excitingly at the same time. See, this young Dukane fellow *does not like getting up in the morning*! Simply incorrigible, that! Naturally, he heads West, notionally learns the meaning of work, and stumbles into a couple men defrauding the family business. Also, there's a love interest in-frame for at least a minute."
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| 36 52% | The Locked Door (1929) - Rated 09 Apr 2024
"A 1919 play gets that early sound stage treatment. A bit of detective drama in the last act was one way to keep things up to date back then; and they've injected a bit of a "pre-code" air now. Still, the base is melodramatic cheese, as classic groaner contrivances abound. The cast has quite a few early talky appearances for people shown to better advantage elsewhere, including the comic support. A bit of a bomb mostly remembered due to Stanwyck's debut (she, for one, was not impressed, mind)."
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| 22 23% | Schuhpalast Pinkus (1916) - Rated 27 Mar 2024
"Very early Lubitsch self-starring in the saga of a slacker, starting with his failing schooldays and continuing through his unlikely success at shoe sales. The job, like the film, is a bit of nothing that largely serves as excuse for our star to be in the presence of numerous young ladies."
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