He’s made women around the world swoon…and men around the world envious. His appeal has been likened to that of Robert Redford; he’s been likewise maligned as a superficial “pretty boy” (much like…well, read my own defense of a much-mocked,…
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Birdie Watching: Reflections on Bye Bye Birdie
My kids were in a production of Bye Bye Birdie over the last month. So, playing the part of the good father, I attended several shows. My kids had small parts in the chorus, so it wasn’t just their limited…
Read more →The Movie Alphabet A-Z
Sometimes it’s just fun to throw a curveball to Movie Irv and then roll the camera: The Movie Alphabet A to Z How well would you have done on the spur of the moment? I’m inclined to think Irv gave…
Read more →Oh, Henry: A Homage to Hathaway
“To be a good director you’ve got to be a bastard. I’m a bastard and I know it.” – Henry Hathaway You have your John Fords, your Howard Hawkses, your Sam Peckinpahs and your Budd Boettichers. You also have your…
Read more →Film Clips: Favorite Hair Movies
The prolific documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold) has a new film out called Mansome, about men’s current obsession with grooming. It offers Will Arnett and Jason Bateman, both situated in a day spa,…
Read more →Has a Movie Ever Changed Your Mind?
It has been said that viewers today are more likely to consume entertainment or informational media that they believe will most likely reinforce their existing biases, rather than look for opposing or challenging points of view. This phenomenon is perhaps…
Read more →Do They Make ‘Em Like They Used To?
Oh, how we hear it on this blog. How the movies today are awful. The violence. The sex. The language. The acting. The writing. The messages being shoved down our throats. If we were to ask the question, Do You…
Read more →Where the Boys Arrrrr: Favorite Pirate Flicks
Ahoy, mateys. What’s a summer without a pirate movie these days? Shiver me timbers, the scalawags in Hollywood have a new buccaneer bonanza coming our way! Plus, it doesn’t star Johnny Depp and cost $200 million to produce. It’s The…
Read more →Your Questions on The Big Fix, Phar Lap, More Answered
Q: Wondering why The Big Fix has never made it to DVD. Starring Richard Dreyfuss, this 1978 detective drama centered on a private investigator who’d come through the student movement of the ’60s and had become involved in a contemporary…
Read more →Get a Handle on Hollywood Rides a Bike
Movie stars on bicycles? Who would have thunk it? Well, there has been a book on movies stars in bathtubs, so why not? Steven Rea, film critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer, decided to marry his two obsessions—films and biking—into one…
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