Is Julia Roberts justly one of the highest-paid actresses of all time…or is she just another pretty face? Movie Irv, having already rendered his verdict on the career of Brad Pitt, now takes a look at the star of such…
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Pre-Code, Gladiators, Rod Taylor on Tap from Warner Archive
The Bad Ol’ Days: Warner Archive has gone again to their vaults to bring us the worst—the worst in human behavior in the movies from the pre-Code days. Two collections featuring top stars where behaving badly—committing crimes, getting into trouble,…
Read more →Quick! 1-10, One Movie Title for Every Number
Proof that yes, Movie Irv dares to roll with zero advance on a question: Top 10 Movie Titles from 1-10 Irv didn’t know we’d have accepted the actual number (or spelled-out version of the number, etc.) at any position in the title…
Read more →Christopher Walken: Dark Horse (2011) Interview
There’s Christopher Walken with a bad toupee, sitting like a zombie on the sofa in his comfy suburban house. His perky, bespectacled wife Mia Farrow sits next to him. They both watch an episode of Seinfeld, gazing at the TV…
Read more →Dueling Movies: The Revenge (Not In 3-D)
If you enjoyed our two prior surveys of marquee matchups between near-identical film projects (which can be found here and here), we’ve got a further foray of films that went fist city for your entertainment dollar. Tombstone (1993) / Wyatt…
Read more →Eating Raoul and More Cult Faves Coming to DVD and Blu-ray
Criterion Corner: Two long-in-the-works American cult faves hit the shelves from Criterion in both DVD and Blu-ray. Eating Raoul (1982) is the late Paul Bartel’s outrageous black comedy in which a married couple (Bartel and Mary Woronov) discover that killing…
Read more →Tom Terrific: A Salute to Skerritt
Tom Skerritt is going to be 75 years old in late August. It’s hard to believe, but when you think about, not surprising. Myself, like the rest of the world, became familiar with Skerritt through Robert Altman’s 1970 anti-war classic…
Read more →Republic Treasures, Classics Coming to Blu-ray
Olive Digs Republic: Well, we’re happy to report that it didn’t take long for Olive to get to their newly acquired library of titles from Republic Pictures. The new releases include Cyrano De Bergerac (1950) with Jose Ferrer in an…
Read more →Son Of Dueling Movies
If you enjoyed our last installment concerning similarly-themed movies that raced one another to the multiplexes, here’s some more box-office blow-by-blows for you to ponder: Real Genius (1985)/ Weird Science (1985) Premise: Teenage boys dabble with science leading to dangerous…
Read more →Butterfly Swords Alights on DVD
Way back in the early 1990s, Hong Kong films were finally getting their due. Director John Woo was getting work in America following incredible action films such as The Killer and Hard-Boiled, Jackie Chan was being rediscovered and introduced to…
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