Jason Marcewicz | Create-A-Caption
You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below.
"You want me to pay YOU to watch my car, or else? Or else what?"
Take a peek at this weeks $4.99 Clint Eastwood birthday special: Pale Rider
7 Comments »Surely there is not any bit of facial hair more iconic than Burt Reynolds’ mustache. This is not to belittle his Silver Screen achievements nor his small screen ones. On the contrary, it is a testament to Burt’s longevity and impressive body of work that I’ve decided to have a little fun here by penning a quick quiz. You must match the mustache to the movie—and one TV show. Good luck! (Answers can be found at the end of the bulleted text by highlighting those lines.)
I’ve known indie filmmaker Michael James Kacey since our days at Penn State (and please, no questions about how long ago that was!). Beginning his career as a talented actor, Mike aimed for the gold ring and wrote, produced, and directed the independent feature Daybreak (2001) starring Paul Clemens (noted for his performance in the ‘80s horror opus The Beast Within).
A lot of people will tell you that the even-numbered Star Trek films are fantastic while the odd-numbered entries are nearly unwatchable pieces of junk. For many, none of the movies perpetuate that myth more than Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. So, was it really that bad?
Dr. Strangefilm | From the Files of Dr. Strangefilm...
The E! cable TV channel (Please don't ask me what the "E" stands for these days. I'm pretty sure it used to be "Entertainment," but judging from what's on there now that can't be right.) recently rebroadcast its True Hollywood Story installment on the Hilton Sisters. Now, some of you out there may have watched the sordid riches-to-riches saga of Paris and Nicky, but kindly ole' Doc Strangefilm will not stand for such a gross usurpation of nomenclature. Six decades before the heiress siblings were foisted on the public, America was already being entertained by a pair of Hilton Sisters. Violet and Daisy Hilton were definitely just as good at acting and singing as Paris and Nicky. What's more, they had the additional showbiz hook of being conjoined twins!
The 2008-2009 NHL Season has barely ended and already “puckheads” everywhere are clamoring for the drop of the little rubber disc on the new campaign. The summer can be a frustrating time for hockey fans as they impatiently wait for teams to resume play. That’s why, to combat the hockey doldrums, the ten best roles and cameos from NHL players featured in film are going to be counted down here. They don’t necessarily have to be hockey movies (though, most are) given that the list of solid films on the sport is rather short. They just have to be fun. However, players will get special consideration if they play someone other than themselves, or even just have lines of dialogue. Let’s face off:
Jason Marcewicz | Art of the Movies
Here’s the first of a series of “poster doppelgangers” that will pop up from time to time on this blog.
I've tried not to include obvious low budget rip-offs of famous movie one-sheets nor any parody posters. Lazy marketing strategies and sheer lack of imagination are to blame for the following lame efforts.
Irv Slifkin | In the Director's Chair, Movie Buzz
Kathryn Bigelow makes movies like the big boys. And we think she’d consider that a compliment.
She’s come to be known as the woman who makes guy films. Among her credits are the creepy vampire/western flick Near Dark, the sex-and-violence-fueled virtual reality thriller Strange Days (co-written by Bigelow’s ex-husband, James Cameron) , the sty
lish cop saga Blue Steel, the surfer heist actioner Point Break and the Harrison Ford submarine drama K-19: The Widowmaker.
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Irv Slifkin | Coming Attractions, DVD Beat
All Swimming! All Dancing!: Fans of swimmer/song-and-dance specialist Esther Williams, the MGM player who made a big splash in movies for the studio in the 1940s and 1950s, can now stop “wading” for more of her films to be issued on DVD. This extras-loaded set, entitled TCM Spotlight: Esther Williams, Vol. 2, includes:
Thrill of a Romance (1945): Esther is a swimming instructor at a Sierra Nevada mountain resort who falls for handsome soldier Van Johnson, even though she recently got married. Among the songs are “Please Don’t Say No, Say Maybe,” “I Should Care," “Lonely Night” and the title tune.
Fiesta (1947): Esther shifts her interests from musical comedy and romance to drama and bullfighting. The daughter of a celebrated matador, she disguises herself as a man to take the place of her disinterested brother (Ricardo Montalban) in the ring. Cyd Charisse, Mary Astor and Fortunio Bonanova also star.
On the red carpet for his new film Public Enemies, Johnny Depp confirmed that the long planned big screen adaptation of the Gothic ‘60s soap opera Dark Shadows is going to happen with director Tim Burton at the helm. Depp will play Barnabas Collins, the tortured vampire of Collinwood. Anyone of a certain age (old!) remembers running home after school to catch the ghoul-filled 4 o’clock ABC show, Originally conceived as a suspense drama starring ‘30’ s and 40’s beauty siren Joan Bennett, the sudser was floundering in the ratings until executive producer Dan Curtis decided to go for broke and add a supernatural element. Jonathan Frid was cast as Barnabas Collins, a reluctant bloodsucker, and suddenly Curtis had the hottest show in daytime. The show spawned a fanatical following (myself included) and became a merchandiser’s dream. There were Dark Shadows cards, games, dolls, LP’s, books, a comic strip, fangs and endless magazine coverage especially ones geared to the teen market like 16, Tiger Beat and Flip. Later the show added David Selby as Quentin Collins, a werewolf, and it found itself with another teen heartthrob. (Frid, a middle-aged Shakespearean actor who had once shared a stage with Katharine Hepburn, was the most unlikely of sex symbols, but housewives couldn’t get enough of him).
She wasn't born into high society, but you'd never know it from most of her film appearances. With her nose firmly in the air, her upper-class dignity was constantly under attack by the relentless comic assaults of Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and sometimes Zeppo Marx. But for the indomitable Margaret Dumont, it was all in a day's work...even if she claimed to never get what was so funny.
She was born the Brooklynite Daisy Juliette Baker in October, 1882, and grew up in the south as the goddaughter of "Uncle Remus" author Joel Chandler Harris. While still in her teens she changed her name and began a stage career as an actress/singer, but gave it up after marrying a well-to-do sugar heir in 1910. Dumont returned to the boards following his death, and had her first film role as, appropriately, an aristocrat in a silent version of Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
Jerry Frebowitz | Talkin' the Oldies
Do you know what the following names had in common? Eddie Albert, Mary Astor, Ralph Bellamy, Ernest Borgnine, Beaulah Bondi, Walter Brennan, Lloyd Bridges, Rory Calhoun, Lee J. Cobb, Wendell Corey, Robert Culp, John Derek, Bobby Driscoll, Jack Elam, John Forsythe, Beverly Garland, James Garner, Sterling Hayden, Celeste Holm, John Ireland, David Janssen, Carolyn Jones, DeForest Kelley, Cloris Leachman, Jack Lemmon, Julie London, Ida Lupino, Strother Martin, Ralph Meeker, David Niven, Jack Palance, Robert Ryan, Robert Vaughn, Stuart Whitman, and James Whitmore?