I have a personal relationship with Jesus. To be more specific, lest the huffing and puffing get too heated right out of the gate: what I mean is that I have a personal experience related…
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Who’s Your Top ’30s/’40s Non-Holmes Film Series Sleuth?
Three on a Match (1932): My Guilty Pleasure
Why do we love pre-Code films? Fast pace? Check. Great stories? Check. Great casts? Check again. Oh, come on. Let’s be honest. It’s the sex, depravity and lingerie! I consider all pre-Code films guilty pleasures. Each generation seems to think it is…
Read more →It Was the Best of Hyams…
Out of the cycle of 1970s buddy cop action comedies like The Super Cops, Cops and Robbers and Freebie and the Bean comes Busting, a 1974 effort soon releasing on DVD. Elliott Gould and Robert Blake play the Los Angeles…
Read more →A Good Reason to Join us on Facebook
Have you ever had a question about a movie? Are you interested in Movie Trivia, quizzes and general movie information and fun? If you answered yes, we would like to invite you to join our Facebook community, (currently 6800 members…
Read more →Second-Tier and Loving It: Hidden Films of Great Directors
Guest blogger Julie Sesnovich writes: They can’t all be winners. Even the strongest, smartest, most talented directors will misfire occasionally. It happens, and it’s forgivable. But what about the works that lie between masterpiece and failure? The films that, far…
Read more →Your Questions on Samson and Delilah, The Sterile Cuckoo, Many More Answered
Q: Hi, I would like to know if you would be able to find out if the title Fast Charlie, the Moonbeam Rider with David Carradine and Brenda Vaccaro will be released soon on DVD or Blu-Ray. As a motorcycle…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 12.04.11
December 7, 1919: Director/actor Erich von Stroheim, “The Man You Love to Hate,” makes his directorial debut with Blind Husbands. December 4, 1924: Greed, previewed in a nine-hour, 42-reel version earlier in the year, opens in a studio-mandated 10-reel cut…
Read more →A Final Cut Pro: Editor Robert Larkin & Good Day for It
My first indication that editor/filmmaker Robert Larkin was a cool guy (apart from his past patronage of Movies Unlimited) came years ago when I learned he had sold his independent feature film Just Work to Troma (who promptly branded it…
Read more →My Five Favorite Cary Grant Films
Guest blogger David Lobosco writes: Cary Grant (1904-1986), in my humble opinion, is the patron saint of all leading man. Sure, there were actors out there that might have had more of an acting range, but Cary could make any…
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