Even if they may not realize it, any movie fan growing up in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s or even 1980s owes a debt to Roger Corman. He is, after all, not only the guy who made a series of spooky…
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Articles by: Irv Slifkin
Edmond O’Brien Westerns And More On The Way
There are character actors and there are CHARACTER ACTORS. Edmond O’Brien was definitely in the latter group. Even when he had small roles in films, the Bronx native made a big impact, adding another standout performance to his mantle and…
Read more →Get Your Kicks With The Complete Route 66
In A Big Country: The classic road series which ran on CBS from 1960 to 1964 has been collected in an amazing 24-disc set for Route 66: The Complete Series. Martin Milner plays Yale grad Tod Stiles, who teams with…
Read more →You Don’t Mess Around With Jim: The Best of Brown is Coming
To football fans he was known as the fearsome running back for the Cleveland Browns who broke many rushing records during his nine-year career. His amazing accomplishments led to The Sporting News naming him the top football player of all…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Movie Snack?
There is a time and place to discuss and/or complain about the grotesquely high cost of snacking at the movies. In fact, that time and place can be right now if you decide to click on over to my much-earlier post…
Read more →The Musketeers and the Movies
They’ve been featured in movies and TV shows many, many times, dating back to the early days of silent films. They’ve been turned into animated canines, modernized, Broadway-ized, Disney-ized, serial-ized, transformed into western heroes, portrayed by Brat Packers, featured with…
Read more →Must a Great Movie Have a Happy Ending?
This seems to be maybe the easiest question we could ever Ask Movie Irv, right? Until you realize (a) just how risky those in the movie business regard the “downbeat” climax to be; (b) how scarce it is on the big screen, and, paradoxically, (c)…
Read more →Who Are The Next Big Action Stars?
With Bruce Willis aging, Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger getting creakier, Mel Gibson in limbo, Jackie Chan heading back to China for movies and making commercials, Steven Seagal playing lawman on TV and Chuck Norris spending his time…
Read more →Falling Skies And More Tube Treats Invading Soon
Not-So Friendly Skies: Just as the second season of the Steven Spielberg-produced sci-fi series gears up on TNT, Falling Skies: The Complete First Season lands on the DVD shores ready to invade your home. The show tells of an alien…
Read more →More Than Just Magoo: The Classic Cartoons Of UPA
There was Disney. There was Warner Brothers. There was MGM. And then there was UPA. The animation studio UPA was in the shadow of the other three. It was best known as the home of Mr. Magoo and Gerald McBoing-Boing….
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