Dick Van Dyke is best known as an actor, singer and dancer who made it big in the 1960s over the brief span of years in which he starred in the stage and movie versions of Bye Bye Birdie, TV’s…
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Paging Dr. Carter. Paging Dr. John Carter. Please come to the ER where you will be…battling aliens! Dr. John Carter, brandishing a rifle and leading a militia against marauding extraterrestrials? What in the world is going on? Hell, what has…
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When you hear about a film called Submarine, you expect a war movie, perhaps set during World War II. Action! Suspense! Water! Dive! Dive! Dive! But Submarine, directed by Richard Ayoade and adapted by the filmmaker from the first novel…
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Breckin Meyer grabs a handful of hard candies and begins chucking them at Mark-Paul Gosselaar, who tries to swat them away with his hands. You don’t expect to see this in the conference room of the posh Rittenhouse Hotel, located…
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At first glance, Bridesmaids looks like the female version of a surprise hit movie from two summers ago about a group of guys at a drug and alcohol-fueled bachelor party in Las Vegas which has a sequel coming out next…
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Murphy’s Law: Audie Murphy, WWII legend-turned-movie hero, is showcased in Audie Murphy Westerns Collection, an exclusive to Movies Unlimited. The four-disc, four-film set is a surefire hit for Murphy mavens and sagebrush fanatics alike, boasting these titles: Sierra (1950): Audie…
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The independent film trenches are fraught with war stories. Some have unhappy endings, with directors overwhelmed with the demands they encounter, and the finished film—if it gets completed—sometimes turns out nothing like their original version. One common scenario has a…
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Twenty-eight years. That’s how long Robert Platshorn spent behind bars, a prisoner for smuggling marijuana in and out of South Florida. The length of time makes him a candidate for entry into the Guinness Book of World Records: Longest time…
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He’s eaten nothing but McDonald’s food for a month (in Super Size Me), travelled to dangerous hot-spots in the Middle East to track down the most wanted man in the world (in Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?)…
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Move over Jason Reitman, Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach. A new generation of filmmakers is about to rule the indie roost. And out from the new stable ride Max Winkler and Matt Spicer, former pals at University of Southern California’s…
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