For this latest holiday poll, we’re focusing on the 1988 holiday film Scrooged. Director Richard Donner‘s hilarious dark comedy is a contemporary retelling of A Christmas Carol starring Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cruel television executive whose wicked ways…
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Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! Christopher Reeve is the Last Son of Krypton, who must thwart notorious criminal mastermind Lex Luthor’s (Gene Hackman) evil plot to trigger an earthquake that could destroy…
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As we mentioned earlier, the great Richard Donner has left us at the age of 91. From Superman to The Goonies to Lethal Weapon and beyond, Donner left an indelible mark on moviemaking. For this poll, we want you to…
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Looking at the filmography of Richard Donner — the famed television and movie director who died yesterday at the age of 91 — is like glimpsing at the popular culture of the past 50 years. After cutting his teeth on…
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It’s been 35 years since The Goonies, the Steven Spielberg-produced/Richard Donner-directed adventure focusing on a bunch of misfit kids (including Josh Brolin, Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, and Martha Plimpton) as they follow a treasure map with hopes of finding the…
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We’re in the thick of holiday craziness right now. By this point you probably need a break, if only for a few hours, from the seasonal hustle and bustle. So why not take a few hours off and check out…
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Ebenezer Scrooge. Unless you’ve been living under a rock your whole life, you know the name. And you know what he represents. Goodness, kindness, philanthropy, human companionship, great employer, and fantastic all-round human being. What’s that? I’m wrong? Did you…
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As impossible as it seems, The Goonies was released 32 years ago. Wow, suddenly I feel very, very old. One of the film’s highlights is “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough”–Cyndi Lauper’s fun theme song from the film. Loud, over-the-top and…
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Released on December 15, 1978, Superman: The Movie was the first modern comic book movie…and it’s still one of the best! Director Richard Donner skillfully brought the Man of Steel to movie screens in a whiz bang adventure that starred…
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