For a film that hardly made a splash during its truncated theatrical run in 1995, Empire Records has gone on to be quite the success. The comedy (with elements of melodrama) chronicles the lives and loves of a group of…
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Create-A-Caption: Say Anything…
One of the great films celebrating its 30th anniversary year this year is Say Anything… Cameron Crowe‘s 1989 romantic comedy features John Cusack as Lloyd Dobler, a kickboxing high school student who is wise beyond his years despite not having…
Read more →“Cactus Flower”: Blooming In the Shadows
Cactus Flower was a stage play before it became a movie. One of the most interesting facts I learned about it was the fact that Lauren Bacall had played the part of Stefanie Dickinson on stage and, quite naturally, expected…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
For this latest Create-A-Caption, we are paying tribute to writer William Goldman (who died last year at the age of 87). Perhaps his best script was his Oscar-winning effort for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969’s formula-shattering Western starring…
Read more →The Great Race: Prank Falls and Pitfalls
Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid included Hanna Barbera’s Wacky Races, a fun one which involved a cross-country car race, and a spinoff called The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, and another spinoff called Dastardly and Muttley in Their…
Read more →A Look Back at the Life and Work of Choreographer Eugene Loring
Eugene Loring was never a household name and yet his unique style of dance was recognizable in many musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. His best-known works are Silk Stockings (1955) and Funny Face (1957), but it was through the…
Read more →“Vice” and “Bumblebee” Kick off Another Week of Great Blu-ray & DVD Releases
When I write the new releases post each each, I often find myself mentioning how diverse the titles available are. This week, in which everything from a gripping biopic about a former Vice President to movie about a transforming robot…
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