In the interests of full disclosure, before Irv takes over, I’ll provide my answer: Night of the Living Dead. Of course, I didn’t say whether or not it was the black-and-white George A. Romero 1968 original or the Tom Savini-directed 1990 remake….
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Dueling Movies
Coming soon to a theater near you: A film about the plot to kill Osama Bin Laden, directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker). Also coming soon to a theater near you: Another film about taking out Bin Laden, directed…
Read more →What’s With Johnny Depp and the Whiteface?
You’ve already chosen the best Johnny Depp poster. You’ve read one fan’s open letter to Depp that implored him to cut back on the quirk. If you’ve just crawled out from under that rock, you surely know by now that Depp…
Read more →Does God Care What Movies You Watch?
Most people are familiar with the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings system—the G, PG, PG13, R, and NC-17. If you also happen to be acquainted with (or abide by) the A, B, C, or O ratings, you might have an easy answer…
Read more →Lost & Rare, Vol. 2: Sports Immortals: Classic Sports Films
And they’re off! Fore! Batter up! Fans of nostalgia and sports should have a field day with Lost & Rare, Vol. 2: Sports Immortals, a collection of vintage shorts and featurettes centering on athletic greats from the earlier-to-middle part of…
Read more →Kent Chronicles And More Tube Treasures Coming
You Say You Want a Revolution: One of the top TV events of the 1970s was The Kent Chronicles, three movies based on John Jakes’ Bicentennial Trilogy. Andrew Stevens plays Phillip Kent, the illegitimate son of a British duke who…
Read more →Sands Of Time: Reflections On Lawrence & O’Toole
Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. –Peter O’Toole As the 50th Anniversary of the release of Lawrence of Arabia looms in December 2012, so does the 80th birthday…
Read more →Maisie, Crime Does Not Pay And More Coming Your Way
Jenny and Eddy Still Going Steady: The final two films with the MGM songbirds Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy that have yet to hit DVD are about to arrive to us on an exclusive basis. In The Girl of the…
Read more →What’s the Best Movie Shootout?
Are you partial to ultra-cool shootouts like the set-destroying gunplay in The Matrix? Would you select something from the exotic filmography of John Woo? Are you a pure classicist, going for sturdy fare like High Noon? Would you make the…
Read more →Reliving Troubled Productions With Apocalypse On The Set
The engaging new book Apocalypse on the Set takes a breezy and entertaining look at nine film productions that essentially went through hell to get to the screen. Some of them were gigantic disasters at the box-office like Michael Cimino’s…
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