Comet Over Broadway is a 1938 drama directed by Busby Berkeley. Although the film somewhat subdues Berkeley’s trademark visual panache, it more than makes up for this shortcoming with a story that manages to be sudsy and thrilling all at…
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We can’t believe it, but films ranging from Jurassic Park to Schindler’s List to Army of Darkness are now 25 years old. For this week’s poll, we want to know which film celebrating its silver anniversary is your favorite. Vote…
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“Grease is the time, is the place, is the motion, and Grease is the way we are feeling.” On June 16th, 1978, the motion picture Grease first hit theaters. Is it hyperbole to say that pop culture has never been…
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Toga! Toga! Today’s pick for Trailer of the Day is National Lampoon’s Animal House, John Landis‘ hugely influential campus comedy. The film chronicles the “slobs vs. straights” war that rages between two fraternities at the fictional Faber College in 1962….
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If adventure has a name…it must be Create-A-Caption! This week, our Create-A-Caption focuses on the 1981 blockbuster smash Raiders of the Lost Ark. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas‘ rousing adventure introduced the world to archaeologist/adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), and…
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Once again, Avengers: Infinity War is dominating the global box office. So just as we did last week, we will be dedicating this week’s Sunday Funday post to the film…specifically it’s mad titan, Thanos. As portrayed by a CGI-enhanced Josh…
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It was on this date back in 1915 that Orson Welles was born. The legend responsible for Citizen Kane (perhaps his most enduring achievement) and the Mercury Radio Theatre’s 1938 radio production of War of the Worlds — a history-making…
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Two years after it was originally published, Betty MacDonald’s down home memoir The Egg and I was transformed into a motion picture which hit theaters in May of 1947. In the film, Claudette Colbert stars as city-bred Manhattanite MacDonald, who…
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In 1948, Mr. Belvedere — the outrageous comedy character who debuted in the writing of Gwen Davenport — made his first cinematic appearance in the hilarious feature Sitting Pretty. The film chronicles what happens when lawyer Harry (Robert Young) and…
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With a career as impressive as Orson Welles‘ was, he was bound to have some stories to tell. In a fascinating interview with British broadcasting legend Michael Parkinson in 1974 (the entirety of which can be viewed here), Welles shared…
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