As anyone who’s ever watched Baggy Pants and the Nitwits can tell you, the 1970s were a strange time in the half-century history of kids’ Saturday morning television. The late ’60s superhero craze, brought on by the popularity of ABC’s…
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Well, the candy bags are going on closeout to make room for the candy canes, and that means the holiday movie season is starting to ramp up. One of the first offerings out the gate this year is The Best…
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Happy Election Day, everyone. I’m on my way to the polling place now (I hope you’re doing or have done the same), but I’d like to take just a moment to suggest that–once you’ve fulfilled your Constitutional privilege–you might consider…
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During a collaborative heyday that spanned the 1940s into the early 1950s, British director Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Hungarian-born screenwriter Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988)–or, as per their production company stamp, “The Archers”–crafted A Matter of Life and Death (A.K.A Stairway to…
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Let’s face it: for all their cuteness, babies can sometimes be a bit unsettling. I mean, they’re like tiny people who are always wanting something, and every once in a while you get the feeling there’s something going on behind…
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Some 16 years ago, enraptured moviegoers watched as ex-CIA Bryan Mills gave a spare but chilling warning over the phone to the sex traffickers that just abducted his teenage daughter: “…[W]hat I do have are a very particular set of…
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She was one of the last living links to the Golden Age of Hollywood musicals, and with her passing last week at the age of 93, singer/dancer/actress Mitzi Gaynor leaves behind a memorable body of work in both movies and…
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To classic movie fans, the first name that comes to mind when someone mentions Tarzan is, of course, Johnny Weissmuller. For many of us born in the second half of the “Baby Boom,” though, there’s a place in our collective…
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Many, many moons ago (October of 2012, to be precise), I wrote an article for this very site listing 12 of the oddest, shoddiest, and least frightening menaces to ever grace the silver screen. From disembodied heads in lab pans…
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We’re deep into October, and you know what that means, beyond pumpkin spice-flavored everything—horror movies wherever you turn. Right now, we’ll turn your attention to a trio of the more buzzed-about fear cinema finds coming our way, which didn’t skimp…
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