When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? To surrender dreams…this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness. But maddest of all—to see life as it is and…
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Even as they mourn the recent passing of Elisabeth Sladen, Doctor Who fans are happily gearing up to enjoy their beloved program in a way never before possible: On April 23, the 32nd season (or the sixth season, depending on…
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For a moment Bond looked up into two glittering eyes behind a narrow black mask. There was the impression of a crag-like face under a hat-brim, the collar of a fawn mackintosh. He could take in nothing more before his…
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Many years ago, my then-girlfriend confided in passing that the reference being made by the jokey character name “Charles Pfister Krane” from the Laverne & Shirley episode “Citizen Krane” had sailed right over her head because she had never seen…
Read more →Did nobody learn from The Planet of the Apes? Psycho? Charade? Apparently not, because there’s a whole slew of classics remakes brewing in Hollywood. Movie Irv is not pleased…well, except maybe for one or two films that present some fresh…
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Remember The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz? If you fondly recall the 1974 comedy-drama starring Richard Dreyfuss (now unavailable on home video, unfortunately!), you’ll be interested in Irv’s take on Barney’s Version, also based on a book by Canadian author Mordecai…
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“The gun gives you the power of life or death. It’s a funny sort of thing to have control over life and death. You must have had it during the war. You could miss a man if you had a mind…
Read more →How did you fare with your first round of Academy Awards predictions? If you check out 2011 Oscars! Academy Awards Predictions by Movie Irv, you’ll see our resident cinema guru did pretty well. Now, let’s check in with Irv as…
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After numerous false starts and (failed) attempts to maintain the hoity-toity façade of arguing “nobody does Bond better” for this current entry, I have decided to take a somewhat different approach this time out. Many readers announcing themselves as genuine…
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Fellow monster fans, there’s a disturbing fact we must face around the same time each year: Few gift buyers immediately associate the post-Halloween holidays with horror movies! The everyday shopper can therefore be forgiven for not realizing that you’d be…
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