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As Disney quietly disappears huge swathes of film history into its vaults, I'm going to spend 2020 celebrating Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox Film Corporation's films, what one might call their output if only someone were putting it out.And now they've quietly disappeared William Fox's name from the company: guilty by association with Rupert Murdoch, even though he never associated with him.***"Would you recognize Milton Berle without his mother? No!" So says the man himself, Milton Berle, in Over My Dead Body (1942), a fairly shoddy reminder that Berle was, for now-inexplicable reasons, a movie star in the early forties. But while some talent from radio and vaudeville slid into cinema with the ease of the proverbial buttered eel, Berle somehow got lodged halfway down cinema's throat, for reasons which may tell us something about classical Hollywood filmmaking, and something about this particular clown.Fox tested Berle on...

Production house Terror Films has teamed with Watch Movies Now. Together, both teams will bring several horror films, to Youtube, for free! The initial slate, for April, includes recent Terror Film's releases. Four film in total will be brought to this platform, which has garnered 142K Youtube subscribers. And, the first film to debut is Luke Genton's The Bone Box. The Bone Box will show on April 10th, this week. This supernatural thriller involves graverobbing and gambling debts. It is all downhill for Tom (Gareth Koorzen), from there. This release will be followed-up by Bobbin Ramsey's Dead Body, on April 17th. This film takes place at a high school party. A game is played and someone takes the rules a bit too literally. Then, After Dark will show on April 24th, followed by Chad Ferrin's The Chair. Set in a prison, death row inmates are subjected to the darkest of tortures.

During this time companies are stepping up to make content available to those of us who have committed to staying home to flatten the curve and lessen the demand on our local health services during this time of the pandemic.    Terror Films is teaming up with the Avod (Advertisement based video on demand for those of you keeping score at home) YouTube channel Watch Movies Now! to makes its library available online, free of charge, nearly worldwide in most cases.    The fun starts this Friday, April 10th with The Bone Box. Each week after another film will drop on the channel: Dead Body (4/17), After Dark (4/24) and The Chair (4/29).   This should help break up your isolation and stay-at-home periods through...

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