You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! “C’mon, baby. Birds do it. Bees do it. Even reanimated fleas do it!”
Read more →November 4, 1907: The Chicago City Council Ordinance forbids the showing of “obscene and immoral pictures” and grants police permission to ban a movie’s release. October 30, 1948: A major shift in the shape of the film industry begins as…
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You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! “I got a rock. Well, that’s better than the pennies, black licorice, circus peanuts, raisins, and wax…
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It’s been awhile since my last visual quiz. Since Halloween is almost upon us I thought I’d do something in that vein. Sixteen inanimate objects of horror are to follow. Can you name them and the film that they’re from?…
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Guest blogger Blair Kramer writes: I have a serious question to ask you. During the opening frames of For Your Eyes Only, weren’t you surprised to see James Bond standing over the grave of his dead wife, Tracy? Also, weren’t…
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Guest blogger Chris Edwards writes: Joe Shuster, co-creator of Superman, once said there was a “little bit of Harold Lloyd” in his character’s alter-ego, Clark Kent. I can see it. Like Kent, Lloyd’s characters tend to be earnest go-getters; inept…
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The rumbling on this Tuesday in late August came out of nowhere, shaking the hotel like a wooden paint stirrer in a blender. Writer-director Sean Durkin, attending a press day for to promote his film Martha Marcy May Marlene, darted…
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Guest blogger Karen Burroughs Hannsberry writes: Film noir, arguably, offers some of the best quotes in all cinema. Along with noir’s distinctive characters, shadowy presentations, labyrinthine plot tangles, and cynical, hopeless tone, it is the hard-boiled dialogue that makes it…
Read more →October 25, 1925: France’s star of silent slapstick comedy Max Linder, 41,and his young wife are found dead in a Paris hotel, victims of an apparent suicide pact. October 23, 1950: Al Jolson, legendary entertainer and star of the seminal…
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