Don’t bother trying to reach me at work today, I’m out sick. Okay, I’m not really sick; I’m actually holed up at one of the local multiplexes–whichever one has the largest screens–so that I can spend the day continually watching The Avengers…
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Is it scandalous that a fake documentary won the Academy Award? Before you go ballistic on all things Michael Moore—not that we all don’t love a good Bowling for Columbine discussion every once in a while—do cool those jets, because…
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Guest blogger Rick 29 presents his picks for the 10 best Spaghetti Westerns: The long dusters. The dirty towns. Extreme close-ups. Lengthy stares. Dubbed dialogue. And, of course, the Ennio Morricone music. I love a good Spaghetti Western! Here are…
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Movie stars on bicycles? Who would have thunk it? Well, there has been a book on movies stars in bathtubs, so why not? Steven Rea, film critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer, decided to marry his two obsessions—films and biking—into one…
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One actor. Two film roles. You tell us which portrayal was the best. The most memorable. Or iconic. Or simply your favorite. But before you pass judgment, a few words defending the “character” of each…
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Among the most-requested movies from DVD collectors around the world is Rose Marie (1936), and continues to be one of the most popular works of screen singing team Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The 1954 version of Rose Marie…
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Something happened to Katharine Hepburn in the 1950s that was both a blessing and a curse: she started playing a lot of spinsters. Some of these spinsters were painful to watch (think The Rainmaker and Summertime), but thankfully her turn…
Read more →May 5, 1903: The film world first mines the riches of the literary world with Edwin S. Porter‘s version of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. May 4, 1934: With a show-stopping performance of “Baby Take a Bow” in Fox’s…
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Guest blogger Rick 29 writes about the 1963 mythological saga Jason and the Argonauts: In his delightful Film Fantasy Scrapbook, Ray Harryhausen wrote: “Of the 15 fantasy features I have been connected with, Jason and the Argonauts pleases me the…
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