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Sinister Cinema: John Carter of Mars
Keeping my Memorial March theme going, I caught John Carter yesterday so I could review it today — for the sixty-second anniversary of the death of Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1950. Brilliant adaptation of the source material, fast-paced, funny (I’m amazed … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Lit
Tagged Bill Crider, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fritz Leiber, Gods of Mars, Indiana Jones, John Carter, Pauline Kael, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, The Wanderer
