Metropolis is a silent film made in Germany by director Fritz Lang and released in 1927, at the height of German Expressionism. While its idea of a working class and intellectual class finding a mediator to help restore harmony can feel like…
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In A Big Country: The classic road series which ran on CBS from 1960 to 1964 has been collected in an amazing 24-disc set for Route 66: The Complete Series. Martin Milner plays Yale grad Tod Stiles, who teams with…
Read more →March 18, 1910: An important entry in the nascent horror genre is the Edison Company’s Frankenstein, with stage veteran Charles Ogle as the monster. March 24, 1939: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce make the first of 14 screen pairings as…
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Guest blogger Rick29 writes: This superior 1971 science fiction outing pits four dedicated scientists against a microscopic menace capable of destroying all life on Earth. Its critics have labeled it slow-moving and overlong, but I find it intellectually exciting. Its…
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To football fans he was known as the fearsome running back for the Cleveland Browns who broke many rushing records during his nine-year career. His amazing accomplishments led to The Sporting News naming him the top football player of all…
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There are two kinds of posters that a film studio can distribute before the film’s official one-sheet (and certainly well before the movie itself is released): advance posters and teasers. The two differ in a way that best can described…
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Guest blogger Cat Geissler writes: Paths aren’t paved before they’re walked on in this lifetime. For the average middle-class teenager, life-changing moments like attending college and starting a family are planned before the graduation cap tassel is switched over to…
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The Thin Man: Long before glamorous millionaires Jonathan, Jennifer, and Freeway Hart solved crimes for ABC on Tuesday nights, super-glamorous millionaires Nick, Nora, and Asta Charles were wittily revealing criminals for MGM on the silver screen. The Harts had five…
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There is a time and place to discuss and/or complain about the grotesquely high cost of snacking at the movies. In fact, that time and place can be right now if you decide to click on over to my much-earlier post…
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