Desperate times call for desperate measures. And sometimes, desperate movies. You can’t get any more desperate than film noir, dark movies in which corruption, duplicity, violence and dames collide. There certainly is no absence of film noir on the big…
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One Saturday morning, Deborah Bishop (Jeanne Crain), Lora Mae Hollingsway (Linda Darnell), and Rita Phipps (Ann Sothern), get together to take a bunch of children on a boat trip and a picnic. Only problem is, there was supposed to be…
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It’s nothing all that spectacular to make a case that Sean Connery was “the best” James Bond. Anyone can do it. In fact, most everyone who is a die-hard Bond fan, at one time or another, has done it. Scan…
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Alright, in the interest of full disclosure, yours truly has seen bits and pieces of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance before. It was a film that “we” often used to run on the overhead screens behind us at the…
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Guest blogger Meaghan Couture writes: True to form, when offered the opportunity to go and see Mary Poppins: The Musical live at our performing arts center here in the city, I jumped at the chance! Not only do I love…
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Even more famous than his gruff drawl which is the voice-over to commercials such as Coors beer, the American Beef Council, and Dodge Ram trucks, is the mustache of Sam Elliott. Naturally everyone loves Burt Reynolds’ mustache, which we featured…
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The town of Perfection, Nevada, is pretty much just that. Not a lot happens, only a dozen or so locals, the ideal life…as long as you don’t mind the graboids. Seems they like the ground under the town and the…
Read more →July 8, 1932: Audiences are repelled by scenes of real-life sideshow stars in Tod Browning‘s horror film Freaks, which will go on to become a cult classic. July 8, 1953: Otto Preminger‘s comedy The Moon Is Blue, which contains the…
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Dark Victory Director: Edmund Goulding USA 1939 104 min. Starring: Bette Davis (article), George Brent, Humphrey Bogart , Geraldine Fitzgerald and Ronald Reagan, among others. A spoiled 23 year old heiress, Judith (Davis), is faced with the fact that she…
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