This week’s Create-A-Caption takes you back in time to the disco era with Saturday Night Fever. Director John Badham‘s gritter-than-you-remember blockbuster stars John Travolta as Brooklyn resident Tony Manero, a listless young man who finds the only distraction from his…
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Create-A-Caption: The Exorcist
With the days getting shorter and the nights getting crisper, our thoughts turn to Halloween seasonal viewing. Yes friends, horror movie-watching season is upon us once more, so we thought we’d jump right in with a new Create-A-Caption based on…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: The Spy Who Loved Me
For this week’s Create-A-Caption, we are transporting you back in time to the 1977 James Bond favorite The Spy Who Loved Me. In this outing, East meets West when Bond (Roger Moore) teams up with gorgeous KGB spy Anya Amasova…
Read more →Movies and Memories: “Lovers and Other Strangers”
In today’s guest post, Bill Dunphy remembers one of his favorite films: These days I find myself migrating to the old comedies, the classics…at least “my” classics. I fully appreciate that what denotes a film as a classic may be…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: The Conversation
The Conversation is Francis Ford Coppola‘s intense study of Harry Caul (Gene Hackman), a surveillance expert who tapes a conversation shared by a young couple in San Francisco’s Union Square. As Caul comes to believe the recording may lead to…
Read more →Check Out These Silver Age Spectaculars, Now on Sale!
The 1960s, ’70s and ’80s spawned some of the greatest and most entertaining movies in history. It’s little wonder than that this time period is often referred to as the “Silver Age of Cinema.” We wanted to honor this era…
Read more →Poll: What’s Your Favorite Golden Anniversary Film from 1970?
The Out-of-Towners. M*A*S*H*. Airport. These are just a mere sampling of the many incredible films that turn 50 this year. For our latest poll, we want you to tell us what your favorite golden anniversary film from 1970 is! Vote…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Dog Day Afternoon
For this latest Create-A-Caption we are focusing on Dog Day Afternoon (1975), the acclaimed drama in which Al Pacino turns in a tour-de-force performance as down-and-out New Yorker Sonny Wortzik, who─along with his pal Sal (John Cazale)─attempts a Brooklyn bank…
Read more →Are You Ready for Some Football?: The Longest Yard
Just in time for the big game, here’s Jim Brymer with his review of the 1974 comedy classic The Longest Yard. Paul Crewe (Burt Reynolds) is a renegade. And a rebel. And a misogynist. He does what he wants, when…
Read more →Guest Review: The North Avenue Irregulars
“Are you a minister or Batman??” Reverend Mike Hill (Edward Herrmann), the newly appointed minister at North Avenue Presbyterian Church, takes on the role of a crimefighter when he discovers that there is organized crime going on right in his…
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