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"Bad Hombre" Teaser; 'One Battle After Another'; Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson; Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn
Official Trailer 2 'One Battle After Another'
All Original Music by Nine Inch Nails; Official Trailer 'Tron: Ares'; Directer Joachim Rønning; Starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Gillian Anderson and Jeff Bridges
“The Strange Woman” (1946) Though Edward G. Ulmer directed dozens of Poverty Row cheapies in his career, his reputation primarily rests on two films: “Detour” (1945), a short and brilliant exercise in B-movie nastiness, starring the thoroughly unhinged Ann Savage as a thuggish hitchhiker out for blood, and “The Black Cat” (1934), a deliriously perverse hunk of Art Deco sadism in which Boris Karloff straps Bela Lugosi to an embalming table in order to skin him alive. Fun stuff. But there’s another Ulmer film that’s hardly ever mentioned by cinephiles: 1946’s historical melodrama set in 19th Century Bangor, Maine, “The Strange Woman,” in which Hedy Lamarr portrays Jenny Hager, a gorgeous sociopath who can’t stop trying to upgrade her life by luring and discarding men with breezy, malevolent abandon. As a little girl, played by Jo Anne Marlowe (the sweet-natured Kay in 1945’s Joan Crawford film “Mildred Pierce”), Jenny attempts to cheerfully drown one of her friends before taking credit for his rescue. Later, the older Jenny (Lamarr) stays out all night with a sailor, then smiles with twisted delight as her father beats her half to death with a horsewhip. By the time George Sanders shows up as the last in a series of lovestruck puppets that Lamarr toys with, we’ve witnessed enough lurid melodrama for a dozen Noirs. It’s not deep stuff, and the ending is much too abrupt, but the sheer pleasure of watching Lamarr vamp her way across the screen, clearly enjoying her opportunity to play the villain, is priceless. ~Justin Tanner
Full Film: The Strange Woman (1946), Directors: Edgar G. Ulmer, Douglas Sirk
Wild Trailer! Amazon Jungle-set Thriller 'Rivers of Fate'; Directed by Quico and Fernando Meirelles; Starring Domithila Cattete, Marleyda Soto, and Lucas Galvino
US Trailer for German Film 'Köln 75' About the Keith Jarrett Concert
Official Trailer 2 'Alien: Earth'; Created and Directed by Noah Hawley; Starring Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, and Timothy Olyphant
Official Trailer from A24; Sequel to Big Animated Hit 'Ne Zha 2'
Underground Indie On Our Radar! Official Trailer 'Dinner in America' (2021); Directed by Adam Rehmeier; Produced by Ben Stiller; Starring Kyle Gallner and Haley Bennett
Official Trailer 'Giant'; Based on true story of the legendary British-Yemeni world boxing champion Prince Naseem Hamed; Starring Amir El-Masry and Pierce Brosnan; Written and directed by Rowan Athale; Executive Produced Sylvester Stallone
Laughs and Luck! Official Trailer 'Good Fortune'; Written and directed by Aziz Ansari; Starring Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, Keke Palmer and Keanu Reeves
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Though Edward G. Ulmer directed dozens of Poverty Row cheapies in his career, his reputation primarily rests on two films: “Detour” (1945), a short and brilliant exercise in B-movie nastiness, starring the thoroughly unhinged Ann Savage as a thuggish hitchhiker out for blood, and “The Black Cat” (1934), a deliriously perverse hunk of Art Deco sadism in which Boris Karloff straps Bela Lugosi to an embalming table in order to skin him alive. Fun stuff. 
