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TV review: Land of the Lost Wolves; Natural World: The Real Jungle Book Bear

5 April 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Two alpha males howl for a lone female of the species – but these are humans, not wolves

It's wolves v bears today. Not an actual fight, though that would have been good. Who would win? Depends on what kind of bear, I suppose. A grizzly surely would take out a wolf; but if it was a little spectacled bear from deepest darkest Peru, my money's on the wolf. Bye-bye, Paddington. If it was Wolves, as in Wolverhampton Wanders, then obviously you'd have to go for whatever they were up against – spectacled bears, teddy bears, Stoke City, anything.

Anyway, Land of the Lost Wolves (BBC1) is the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, USA. Wolves are returning from over the border, but not everyone is happy: "If the Devil had an animal, it's the Canadian wolf," says a man whose own team, if he had one, would be the Washington Rednecks. I'm »

- Sam Wollaston

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9 Great Cop Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen

21 March 2012 6:41 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

As happened for so many other genres, the 1960s/1970s saw a tremendous creative expansion in crime and cop thrillers. The old Hollywood moguls had died off or retired, most of the major studios were bleeding red ink, attendance had gone off a cliff since the end of Ww II, and a new breed of young, creatively adventurous production executives had been tasked with trying to save their business by coming up with movies which could hook a new, young, cinema-literate audience.

It also happened to be one of the most socially turbulent times in American history. Even before the American public grew restive over the growing disaster in Vietnam, the social fabric was unraveling with self-examination and doubt. The Cold War; a certain inner emptiness that went with a period of great material prosperity; once invisible fault lines on matters of race and gender discrimination beginning to crack – all »

- Bill Mesce

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St. Louis Black Film Festival Continues This Week with Carmen Jones and Car Wash

6 February 2012 8:39 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

The folks behind the St. Louis Black Film Festival Presents a Classic Black Film Festival for Black History Month at Landmark’s Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in St. Louis’ Loop) each Thursday in February. Last year the St. Louis Black Film Festival presented a series of new films by black filmmakers, but this year are going back into the vaults and digging out some vintage cinema for audiences with an interest in black history to enjoy on the big screen.

This offerings for this Thursday, February 9th are Carmen Jones at 5pm and Car Wash at 7pm.

Carmen Jones (1954) was produced and directed by Otto Preminger from Oscar Hammerstein’s update of the Bizet opera. It stars Dorothy Dandridge as the title character, a free-spirited, free-loving parachute factory worker whose romantic entanglement with conflicted Joe(Harry Belafonte), who’s engaged to sweet Cindy Lou and about to go into pilot training for the Korean War, »

- Tom Stockman

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