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If you like Intolerable Cruelty…

Posted on May 21, 2026 by I.M. Baytor

Having done their take on film noir with The Man Who Wasn’t There, Joel and Ethan Coen then put a modern a spin on another Golden Age genre, namely romcoms that had fun with marriage conventions, often involving Hollywood’s most … Continue reading →

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (27 April 2026)

Posted on April 27, 2026 by I.M. Baytor

This week, comic book covers that pay homage to classic movie posters:

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If you like The Man Who Wasn’t There…

Posted on April 23, 2026 by I.M. Baytor

Welcome back to this neglected series of posts, now with one of the best (and funniest) films of the Coen brothers. In 2001, Joel and Ethan Coen returned to their roots with The Man Who Wasn’t There, a straight-up crime … Continue reading →

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More cool westerns

Posted on March 25, 2026 by I.M. Baytor

Back to cinema this week… and back to the Old West. Not the wokest of genres, westerns nevertheless often provide great fodder for thinking about history and politics (especially in America), along with the obvious thrills. Take gender dynamics, for … Continue reading →

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Amazing crime films from around the world

Posted on February 11, 2026 by I.M. Baytor

I may not need to tell you that eminently quotable gangster flicks like The Godfather and Pulp Fiction are rightly acclaimed as peaks in crime cinema (hell, peaks in film history), as are Goodfellas and, in fact, most Scorsese pictures … Continue reading →

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A dozen swinging sixties’ super-spies – part 2

Posted on December 18, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

If you’ve read last week’s post, you know what’s going on. Basically, these were the cinematic cousins of Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., back in the 1960s: OSS 117: Mission for a Killer (1965) We’ll start with yet another bonkers … Continue reading →

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A dozen swinging sixties’ super-spies – part 1

Posted on December 10, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

I’m finally getting a hold on work and family life, so 2026 is bound to be a more regular year for Gotham Calling, but, for now, I’ll just keep throwing in some idiosyncratic stuff I’ve been digging into… Last time … Continue reading →

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (27 October 2025)

Posted on October 27, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

These pre-Halloween posts are usually a pretext to recommend cool horror movies at Gotham Calling. Like I explained last year, though, I can hardly keep up with new releases and my picks in terms of recent films are probably not … Continue reading →

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A dozen great movies about antifascist resistance, just because

Posted on October 9, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

For some reason, I decided to do a list of films about antifascist resistance. Even setting aside intelligent Andor-like sci-fi allegories, or movies about organized resistance to the current rise of authoritarianism (like the wild One Battle After Another), there … Continue reading →

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More global film noirs

Posted on August 28, 2025 by I.M. Baytor

Once again, I’m complementing the latest lists of film noir gems with a handful of foreign-language recommendations that are just as good as – or, in some cases, much better than – their counterparts from the USA and the UK. … Continue reading →

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