As impossible as it may seem, Casablanca turns 75 this year. Perhaps the most beloved movie ever made, this Humphrey Bogart/Ingrid Bergman masterpiece helped define what makes a film an enduring classic. As a person who is always curious about…
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This weekend’s Open Thread asks a question that seems simple on the surface, but becomes more complicated the further you analyze it: What is the greatest animated film ever made? Your mind may automatically turn to Walt Disney classics like…
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Hitting Blu-ray and DVD from KL Studio Classics on September 5th, The Birthday Party is a captivating dark comedy based on the play by Harold Pinter Robert Shaw stars as Stanley Webber, a piano player living at a rundown British…
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There’s nothing quite like the melodramas of the 1950s. A prime example of this genre is the 1957 effort All Mine To Give. Just released on DVD via the Warner Archive Collection, the movie — based on actual experiences that…
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Love in the 1970s: A look at 3 classics from the 1970s. Avanti (1972) directed by Billy Wilder, The Goodbye Girl (1977) starring Richard Dreyfuss, and Harold and Maude (1971) directed by Hal Ashby and starring Ruth Gordon
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August comes in swinging with a jaw-dropping amount of new releases to kick off the month. In fact, there are so many new releases now available that we want to jump right in. From a wildly inventive kaiju story that…
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We’re just learning this morning that famed actor, playwright and director Sam Shepard died last Thursday at the age of 73 due to complications of ALS. Best known to movie audiences for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager in The Right…
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From Dragnet to Hill Street Blues, Barney Miller to NYPD Blue and beyond, cop shows have been a staple of American television for decades. For this week’s poll we want you to vote for your favorite program featuring law enforcement…
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As we quietly hope that the proposed remake goes away, our thoughts turn to the excellent 1986 version of Little Shop of Horrors. Proving just how multi-talented he truly is, director Frank Oz transformed the Off-Broadway musical (itself based on…
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The first time I ever heard of a video club I was standing with my parents at a local shopping mall. It was the summer of 1982, and while taking my siblings and I shopping they mentioned that on the…
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