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THE BOOTLEG FILES: JUD SUSS

By | January 2009

Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of classic and kooky flicks that can only be found on bootlegged videos and DVD. This week, Phil shines a light on a piece of cinematic evil.

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: JUD SUSS

BOOTLEG FILES 265 “Jud Suss” (1940 Nazi propaganda). LAST SEEN: The film can be found online. AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: Unauthorized copies only. REASON...

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A serial killer with mother issues? Get out of here! George Snow’s "Us Sinners" walks the razor’s edge between straight-faced genre exercise and...

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High school sucks. To suggest that sentiment is universal in nature would be a gross exaggeration, of course, but it's a belief that is undeniably held by...

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MAMMA MIA! (DVD)

Weeks before the theatrical release of “Mamma Mia!”, I’d see the posters for it at various malls and not think anything of it. It was the same way...

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BEDTIME STORIES

Perhaps it was a Sunday morning. Adam Sandler headed into his living room, only to find his children watching a copy of “Zohan” (arguably his worst...

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SEVEN POUNDS

"Seven Pounds" is the very definition of a ‘noble failure’. It is exquisitely acted and occasionally compelling. It is the very kind of film that...

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DOUGHBOYS

What happens when a Hollywood character actor decides to go back to his home town (if The Bronx can be called a ‘town’) to co-write and direct an indie...

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THE IRONMAN

"The Iron Man" is supposedly a loose biopic based on the life story of the inventor of a penis enlargement device. You'd think a subject like that would...

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