Those of us who consider ourselves die-hard movie fans (not to be confused with fans of the Die Hard movies) might like to think that we’d do anything to meet our screen heroes. That bar was raised considerably in 2008’s…
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In last week’s opening part of my tour of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland–or, at least, the myriad movie depictions of it–I introduced you to silent Alice in Wonderland shorts and features; Walt Disney’s ’20s Alice in Cartoonland series and his eventually abandoned…
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She was Maid Marian’s lady-in-waiting, met the Invisible Man and the Frankenstein Monster, and worked with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford and Billy Wilder. She was rubber-faced character actress Una O’Connor, our latest Scene Stealer,
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Last fall, on this very web site, I wrote a pair of articles detailing the various cinematic and TV depictions of The Wizard of Oz over the past 100 years or so (take a look for yourself, they’re still there: The Wizard…
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One of the most thankless recurring roles in movies must have been as one of Charlie Chan’s would-be detective offspring. After all, how many ways can an actor say “Gee whiz, pop!”? For the venerable Keye Luke, however, playing “number-one son” Lee…
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It is, to borrow a phrase from one of his better-known movie roles, “inconceivable” that filmgoers of all ages aren’t familiar with at least the voice, if not the leprechaun-like face, of comedic mainstay Wallace Shawn. Fans of art films know…
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As most people know, Elvis Presley’s last feature film was in 1969 and he passed away eight years later. But what sort of movies might he have made if he hadn’t died? Let’s explore an alternate history of The King’s big-screen career post-1977.
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It is, perhaps, appropriate that the friend and confidante of the world’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, should–like the man whose exploits he chronicled–also be the subject of several mysteries surrounding his personal life. Was Dr. John H. Watson born in England or, as…
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It’s okay, there’s no one looking. You can admit it. You’re no Grinch, but you find the unending store and media bombardment of holiday tunes and images over the last couple of months more than a little wearying. And as much as…
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