Tag: 1970s
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Hooptober 12.0 – The Fifth Cord (1971)
Being Film #20 for Hooptober 2025 After seeing Luigi Bazzoni’s debut film The Possessed earlier for this marathon, I was even more eager to check out The Fifth Cord, his second foray into giallo, particularly as that film straddled the line between dreamlike noir and paranoid Lynchian nightmare more than what we would come to…
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Choose The Sword: Lone Wolf and Cub White Heaven in Hell (1974)
Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: In the final Lone Wolf and Cub film, star Tomisaburo Wakayama decided to make the…
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Choose The Sword: Lone Wolf and Cub Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: Balancing physical action with Buddhist musings on life and death, the most spiritual…
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Choose The Sword: Lone Wolf and Cub Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: In this distinctly lowbrow entry in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Itto Ogami is…
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Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: Unfolding in an idyllic countryside that contrasts sharply with the violence that occurs…
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Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: In this exploitation-cinema classic, which took the action and graphic violence of the Lone…