This sword-filled thriller centers on the title location-an inn where the down and dirty meet to plot nefarious doings.
Edgar Chaput
Edgar Chaput
A native of Montréal, Québec, Edgar has been writing about film since 2008. At first relegated to a personal blog back when those things were all the rage, he eventually became a Sound on Sight staff member in late 2011, a site managed by non-other than Ricky D himself. Theatrical reviews, festival coverage, film noir and martial arts flicks columns, he even co-hosted a podcast for a couple of years from 2012 to 2014 with Ricky and Simon Howell. His true cinematic love however, his unshakable obsession, is the 007 franchise. In late 2017, together with another 00 agent stationed in Montreal, he helped create The James Bond Complex podcast (alas, not part of the Goombastomp network) in which they discuss the James Bond phenomenon, from Fleming to the films and everything in between. After all, nobody does it better.
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The dead have returned. But this is a homecoming like no other. Satisfying the hunger of movie…
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Friday Film Noir
Lady Gangster— Practically Long Forgotten in the Annals of Film History
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Jackie Chan’s American Breakthrough, 25 Years Later Few national film industries have ever been able to rival…
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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
Six Assassins– Another Story of Revenge Against Ignobility
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Uninhibited youth Zhang Chun and his friends David and Mary, while cruising on their car, meets rich heiress Wen Rou. Chun and Rou fall in love at first sight and begin dating.
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Friday Film Noir
The Racket Stands as a Reasonably Accomplished Procedural
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Friday Film Noir
A History of Violence Marked a Major Turning Point for David Cronenberg
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An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
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Sometimes you have to reach into someone else’s world to find out what’s missing in your own.
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Friday Film Noir White Heat has James Cagney so hot not even the world can stop him……
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Friday Film Noir
Port of New York— an Underrated gem featuring a magnetic Yul Brynner
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Shaw Bros. Spotlight
Asia-Pol a Kung fu ’60s Spy Genre from the Shaw Bros. Studio
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Friday Film Noir Travelling by bus through the muggy Florida Keys, Maj. Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) finally…
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Friday Film Noir A detective is obsessed with a case, tracking down either a killer or a…
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In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman persuades her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
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It’s a crime saga that will shock you. It’s a mystery that will keep you guessing. It’s a thriller that will keep you riveted.
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Friday Film Noir
The Man Who Cheated Himself has a phenomenal climax
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Fistful Of Film Fury
Akira Kurosawa’s Sugata Sanshirô is an excellent directorial debut
by Edgar Chaputby Edgar ChaputSugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.