Oh, how we hear it on this blog. How the movies today are awful. The violence. The sex. The language. The acting. The writing. The messages being shoved down our throats. If we were to ask the question, Do You…
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Looking Back at the Career of Neil Hamilton
Guest blogger Allen Hefner presents this overview of the career of character actor great Neil Hamilton: I happened to be watching a 1932 Constance Bennett movie the other day. You remember her…Joan’s sister? The movie was called What Price Hollywood? and…
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You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! Erik caught sight of his blind date—frankly, she was a little scary looking.
Read more →Where the Boys Arrrrr: Favorite Pirate Flicks
Ahoy, mateys. What’s a summer without a pirate movie these days? Shiver me timbers, the scalawags in Hollywood have a new buccaneer bonanza coming our way! Plus, it doesn’t star Johnny Depp and cost $200 million to produce. It’s The…
Read more →Your Questions on The Big Fix, Phar Lap, More Answered
Q: Wondering why The Big Fix has never made it to DVD. Starring Richard Dreyfuss, this 1978 detective drama centered on a private investigator who’d come through the student movement of the ’60s and had become involved in a contemporary…
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This Week In Film History, 05.06.12
May 10, 1912: The screen’s earliest romantic pairing, Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne, first gaze into each other’s eyes in The House of Pride. May 11, 1927: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is founded. There are…
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You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! “Why are you’re so baffled that I don’t carry my bag from underneath like that? It’s just…
Read more →What Movie Character Team-Ups Would You Like to See?
Don’t bother trying to reach me at work today, I’m out sick. Okay, I’m not really sick; I’m actually holed up at one of the local multiplexes–whichever one has the largest screens–so that I can spend the day continually watching The Avengers…
Read more →The Hellstrom Chronicle: Believe It…or Not!
Is it scandalous that a fake documentary won the Academy Award? Before you go ballistic on all things Michael Moore—not that we all don’t love a good Bowling for Columbine discussion every once in a while—do cool those jets, because…
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