EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET—NIGHT The grimy, rain-soaked streets of Lower Manhattan. A YELLOW CAB speeds uptown, passing strip joints, electronics shops, and grindhouse movie theaters on its way to the tonier areas of the city. INSIDE THE CAB The…
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Guest blogger Dave writes: If you watch only one film from the noir genre in your lifetime, make sure that one film is Out of the Past (1947). Every fundamental element used in the making of a great noir film…
Read more →May 5, 1903: The film world first mines the riches of the literary world with Edwin S. Porter‘s version of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. May 4, 1934: With a show-stopping performance of “Baby Take a Bow” in Fox’s…
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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! “Christ, the Mets lost again. Just between me & you, Paul, I wish that vigilante guy would…
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The independent film trenches are fraught with war stories. Some have unhappy endings, with directors overwhelmed with the demands they encounter, and the finished film—if it gets completed—sometimes turns out nothing like their original version. One common scenario has a…
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Here are 10 trivia facts about The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1975, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to…
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Guest blogger Rick 29 presents this look at the saga of The Bold Ones, the NBC Mystery Movies, and Others: In 1955, U.S television launched one of its most interesting experiments: the umbrella series, in which different TV shows were…
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In his three-and-a-half-star review of Crash—the 1996 David Cronenberg movie about the fetish that combines sexual arousal with car crashes, not the 2005 Best Picture about the fetish that combines racial disharmony with outrageous narrative coincidence—Roger Ebert claimed that Cronenberg’s film was all…
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