A radio personality in Philadelphia was recently reviewing the work of Joe Pesci. He ignored Pesci’s comedic roles, instead focusing on his many “mob” turns in films such as Casino and Goodfellas. Big mistake. Pesci has played many funny characters,…
Read more →February 18, 1913: The Edison Film Co. introduces its synchronized film-phonograph Kinetoscope process for showing “sound films” in New York. February 14, 1927: Director Alfred Hitchcock first tries his hand at suspense with The Lodger, based on the Jack the…
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Here is the third installment of Movie Mash-ups. Like the first article, I’ve sliced & diced two real film plots—listed at the end of each synopsis—and then pasted them together again to form a new, totally made-up movie that crazily…
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It’s been 29 years since we had a big-budget movie about the Greek gods. In 1981, Clash of the Titans, was released, featuring Harry Hamlin as the hero Perseus, Laurence Olivier as Zeus, Claire Bloom as Hera, Ursula Andress 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! Capone swore that Mötley Crüe and their rowdy entourage would never eat in his dining establishment ever…
Read more →February 8, 1915: D.W. Griffith’s Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, opens. At a White House screening, President Woodrow Wilson calls it “like writing history with lightning.” February 8, 1926: The New York Sun is the first to…
Read more →As I wrote in the first Movie Mash-Ups article, mash-ups are a recent trend where music club DJs take two or more songs and artfully combine them, creating a “new” hit. Last time I combined the written plot elements from two…
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You may be able to take Channing Tatum out of the military, but you can’t take the military out of Channing Tatum. That’s because the 29-year old actor keeps getting cast in roles in which he plays a soldier. For…
Read more →Hollywood Nostradamus (a friend on the outside who alerted me to the existence of this marvelous Steven Seagal program some time ago) pointed me towards these, and since his sentiments about the following exactly mirror my own, I might as well quote…
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