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FLIX PIX (1286): “I Am SPARTACUS!”
SPARTICUS (directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1960) ***** (out of 5) . > This is one of those films I would have told you that I had seen several times through the years, on various old cathode ray tubes. I would have … Continue reading
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KPK on the CINEMA (135) “The Films of May 2023”
. > With the impacts of the righteous writer’s strike hitting me first and hardest with the pause in my habitual late night yuks (Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Daily Show, John Oliver, Bill Maher, SNL), I have had a good deal … Continue reading
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