31 days of October. 31 articles devoted to the screen’s maestro of suspense and the macabre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). I’ll be jumping back and forth through five decades in this series. More than half of the films I’ve never seen before, but even the ones I have seen were viewed, researched and written about this [...]

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By Joe Valdez
Baltimore homicide detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) visits the murder trial of D’Angelo Barksdale (Larry Gilliard Jr.). When a witness recants her testimony, McNulty realizes the drug traffickers D’Angelo works for have gotten to her. McNulty meets with the judge and explains how D’Angelo’s uncle Avon Barksdale has taken over several highrises in [...]

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Documentary directed and photographed by Amanda Micheli begins in 2000, as Lucy Lawless’ stunt double on the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess – 22 year old Zoe Bell – finds herself out of work when the show ends. Bell leaves her family in Auckland and arrives in L.A., where Jeannie Epper – Lynda Carter’s [...]

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