February 18, 1913: The Edison Film Co. introduces its synchronized film-phonograph Kinetoscope process for showing “sound films” in New York. February 14, 1927: Director Alfred Hitchcock first tries his hand at suspense with The Lodger, based on the Jack the…
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Movie Mash-Ups, Part III
Here is the third installment of Movie Mash-ups. Like the first article, I’ve sliced & diced two real film plots—listed at the end of each synopsis—and then pasted them together again to form a new, totally made-up movie that crazily…
Read more →Myth-ing in Action with the Cast of Percy Jackson
It’s been 29 years since we had a big-budget movie about the Greek gods. In 1981, Clash of the Titans, was released, featuring Harry Hamlin as the hero Perseus, Laurence Olivier as Zeus, Claire Bloom as Hera, Ursula Andress as…
Read more →The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
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! Capone swore that Mötley Crüe and their rowdy entourage would never eat in his dining establishment ever…
Read more →Movie Poll – What’s the Best Romantic Film of all Time
This Week In Film History 02-07-10
February 8, 1915: D.W. Griffith’s Civil War epic, The Birth of a Nation, opens. At a White House screening, President Woodrow Wilson calls it “like writing history with lightning.” February 8, 1926: The New York Sun is the first to…
Read more →Movie Mash-Ups, Part 2
As I wrote in the first Movie Mash-Ups article, mash-ups are a recent trend where music club DJs take two or more songs and artfully combine them, creating a “new” hit. Last time I combined the written plot elements from two…
Read more →Channing Tatum & Dear John
You may be able to take Channing Tatum out of the military, but you can’t take the military out of Channing Tatum. That’s because the 29-year old actor keeps getting cast in roles in which he plays a soldier. For…
Read more →Are These The Greatest Commercials Ever Made?
Hollywood Nostradamus (a friend on the outside who alerted me to the existence of this marvelous Steven Seagal program some time ago) pointed me towards these, and since his sentiments about the following exactly mirror my own, I might as well quote…
Read more →Going Fourth: More Movie Poster Lookalikes
Here’s the fourth in our series of “poster doppelgangers” that confirm to movie fans like yourself that, yes, you have seen that poster before! I’ve tried to keep parody posters and the obvious low budget rip-offs of famous movie one-sheets to a minimum….
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