Sure, the literary crowd comes out to salute James Joyce and Ulysses on Bloomsday every June. And Seinfeld aficionados will put up an aluminum pole and air their grievances each December for Festivus. But when it comes to pop…
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Back in February I wrote an article saluting the 1931 horror landmark Dracula on the 95th anniversary of its Valentine’s Day debut. Tod Browning’s eerie shocker starring Bela Lugosi is probably the most popular vampire movie of all time. What…
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Last week Academy Award winner, bestselling author, and cosmic voyager Shirley MacLaine celebrated her 92nd birthday. Along with being a link to Hollywood’s Golden Age, the star of stage, screen, and TV (remember 1971’s Shirley’s World?) is also a…
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This Friday kicks off the first weekend of May, which means it’s also the unofficial start of the Summer 2026 film season. Sure, it’s a season with the usual superhero fare (Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Supergirl), reboots (Masters of…
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Carl Denham offering an epitaph for the fallen King Kong. Rick and Louis walking in tandem down the Casablanca airport tarmac. Thelma and Louise putting the pedal to the metal one more time. The movie world is packed with memorable…
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Not many Oscar winners can say their screen career began with them playing opposite a 40-foot-tall gorilla. That she overcame debuting in the 1976 remake of King Kong to become an audience favorite and take home not one, but…
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Still trying to figure out what to spend your income tax refund on? Well, there are plenty of classic films coming out on Blu-ray and 4K/UHD from the Kino Lorber Studio Classics line. From comic strip-inspired action and vintage…
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Recently the entertainment world lost two diverse but memorable talents. Stage and screen actress Mary Beth Hurt, who debuted in Woody Allen’s Interiors and co-starred with Robin Williams in The World According to Garp, died this past March…
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Well, it’s that time of year once more. Today is April 15th, aka Tax Day. There are quite a few films out there with a taxation theme, from The Adventures of Robin Hood to 1776 to Everything Everywhere All at…
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Whether he was playing a Mob underling looking out for his longshoreman brother (On the Waterfront), an infamous Chicago gangster (Al Capone), an embittered Holocaust survivor (The Pawnbroker), or a small-town Southern police chief (In the Heat of the Night),…
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