Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. The crescent moon is featured in this installment of Six Pix.
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Pola Negri and Rudolph Valentino, two of the most famous and glamorous movie stars of the silent era, had a secret romance…or did they? Guest writer Marsha Collock examines the details behind the duo’s clandestine relationship.
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Tom Skerritt is going to be 75 years old in late August. It’s hard to believe, but when you think about, not surprising. Myself, like the rest of the world, became familiar with Skerritt through Robert Altman’s 1970 anti-war classic…
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Guest blogger Kim Wilson writes: Ordinary People (1980) was nominated for six Academy Awards; it won four. To this day, some people are still upset over the fact that Ordinary People won the Best Picture Oscar over Raging Bull. These…
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Olive Digs Republic: Well, we’re happy to report that it didn’t take long for Olive to get to their newly acquired library of titles from Republic Pictures. The new releases include Cyrano De Bergerac (1950) with Jose Ferrer in an…
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If you enjoyed our last installment concerning similarly-themed movies that raced one another to the multiplexes, here’s some more box-office blow-by-blows for you to ponder: Real Genius (1985)/ Weird Science (1985) Premise: Teenage boys dabble with science leading to dangerous…
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In today’s guest post, Rick 29 takes a look at an underappreciated Disney gem, 1963’s Summer Magic: Hayley Mills‘ fourth Walt Disney picture was a footnote in both her career and the Disney filmography for many years. Certainly, it pales…
Read more →July 15, 1932: The Disney Studio releases the first cartoon using the three-color Technicolor process, a Silly Symphony called Flowers and Trees. July 17, 1935: Variety, in a story about Midwestern audiences’ preference for sophisticated films, declares in a headline…
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Way back in the early 1990s, Hong Kong films were finally getting their due. Director John Woo was getting work in America following incredible action films such as The Killer and Hard-Boiled, Jackie Chan was being rediscovered and introduced to…
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