In the 1989 film Batman, Jack Nicholson’s Joker asks rhetorically of his caped nemesis, “Where does he get those wonderful toys?” A better question might be, where do maniacal movie bad guys like the Joker find flunkies willing to follow their…
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Confusing, dull, vapid, or just plain dumb, here are the film taglines that represent the best of the worst. Read ‘em and weep.
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While I pride myself on not betting over my head and NEVER risk more than I can afford to lose, I wound up parting with more cash than I was really happy about during a recent trip to Atlantic City….
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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? The poster alone piqued all my interest in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? because it seemed to promise exciting heights of campy thrills and Hollywood decay, like a more cult version of Sunset Blvd. The…
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Guest blogger Castor Troy writes: Are entertainers, among which include film actors, overpaid? Many have heard about the outrageous paychecks Will Smith, Tom Cruise, or Reese Witherspoon take home for one single movie while the average American works 5 or 6…
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Peter Hanson never thought he’d see his documentary Tales from the Script on the big screen. The entertaining survey of the world of screenwriters and screenwriting was created as a companion piece to his book of the same name, and,…
Read more →May 5, 1903: The film world first mines the riches of the literary world with Edwin S. Porter’s version of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. May 4, 1934: With a show-stopping performance of “Baby Take a Bow” in Fox’s…
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Guest blogger Bob Campbell writes: Actor Richard Ney tried to warn us about the shortfalls of stock short-selling when he abandoned a 25 year Hollywood career to become a best-selling author of books critical of Wall Street obfuscation and greed….
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Jeremy Paul Kagan knew that working on The Chosen, his 1981 film of Chaim Potok’s best-selling novel, would be something special. Set in 1940s Brooklyn, Potok’s book told of the friendship between a Hasidic Orthodox Jewish teen (played by Robby…
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