Movie Irv rounds out this week’s movie word-association game with a nod to the plucky gal who left 14-year-old fellas of all ages smitten in 1983. You’re welcome.
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The Defiant One: For Stanley Kramer on His 100th
Since this September will mark the centenary for the maestro of the message movie, producer-director Stanley Kramer, we thought we’d offer up a retrospective of an often-controversial, and overall remarkable, body of work.
Read more →Going, Going….: DVD Favorites Soon to Vanish
Here’s our first in a series of heads-ups on out-of-print classics that we’ve got on our shelves…for now. We’re spotlighting the dynamic 1940 James Cagney-Ann Sheridan ring drama City for Conquest, among others.
Read more →Rate the MPAA: Are Movie Ratings Useful? Accurate? Fair?
G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17. Do these make sense to you? Are you ever mystified by the ratings awarded by the MPAA? Hear what Movie Irv has to say about the current ratings system, and then rate his prescriptions in the comments.
Read more →Schrader, Coppola, De Palma: When Film Brats Go Gray
Time was, they were the guys who were re-writing the rules. Lately, they’ve had to be the ones adjusting to the realities of sea changes to their industry and to their market. We’re looking at the latest efforts from Paul Schrader, Francis Ford Coppola, and Bran De Palma–which might have come to a theater near you.
Read more →Burstyn Points: A Consideration of Ellen Burstyn
It took till her middle years, in the dawn of the ’70s, for this Detroit native to become one of the hot actresses of the moment, and she continues burnishing a remarkable performing legacy to this day. We’re looking back at the full and varied career of Ellen Burstyn.
Read more →What Movie Gets “Coming-of-Age” Just Right?
It takes more than period details that bring on feelings of nostalgia to make a great “coming-of-age” movie–it takes dramatizing how formidable (and often funny) a task it can be to make the transition from kid to adult. Here’s Movie Irv…
Read more →Val-Edictory: A Consideration of Kilmer
The other day Val Kilmer was on the Conan show, pushing his live Mark Twain play called Citizen Twain at the Pasadena Playhouse. Conan showed pictures of Kilmer in costume—white hair, mustache, heavy prosthetics, dandy white suit, bow-tie—greeting audience members…
Read more →Which 10 Cinemassociations Get Us from Hooker to Quentin Tarantino?
Tales Of The Tapes: Remember Your First Movie On VHS?
Remember back when it was a novelty to own a copy of your favorite flick for your any-time viewing pleasure? We surveyed our crack staff of veteran film buffs about the first film on VHS that they had to have for their libraries, and we think you’ll be surprised by the responses!
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