May 15, 1900: The Lumière brothers dazzle audiences at the Paris World’s Fair with films projected onto an enormous 82′ x 49′ wide screen. May 10, 1912: The screen’s earliest romantic pairing, Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne, first gaze…
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Here’s to the Henchmen: Part 2
In the 1989 film Batman, Jack Nicholson’s Joker asks rhetorically of his caped nemesis, “Where does he get those wonderful toys?” A better question might be, where do maniacal movie bad guys like the Joker find flunkies willing to follow their…
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Confusing, dull, vapid, or just plain dumb, here are the film taglines that represent the best of the worst. Read ‘em and weep.
Read more →First Time Watch: The Cincinnati Kid
While I pride myself on not betting over my head and NEVER risk more than I can afford to lose, I wound up parting with more cash than I was really happy about during a recent trip to Atlantic City….
Read more →Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962): Movie Review
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? The poster alone piqued all my interest in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? because it seemed to promise exciting heights of campy thrills and Hollywood decay, like a more cult version of Sunset Blvd. The…
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Are Actors Overpaid?
Guest blogger Castor Troy writes: Are entertainers, among which include film actors, overpaid? Many have heard about the outrageous paychecks Will Smith, Tom Cruise, or Reese Witherspoon take home for one single movie while the average American works 5 or 6…
Read more →Peter Hanson & Tales From The Script
Peter Hanson never thought he’d see his documentary Tales from the Script on the big screen. The entertaining survey of the world of screenwriters and screenwriting was created as a companion piece to his book of the same name, and,…
Read more →This Week In Film History 05-02-10
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…
Read more →Richard Ney: From Hollywood Babylon to Wall Street Jungle
Guest blogger Bob Campbell writes: Actor Richard Ney tried to warn us about the shortfalls of stock short-selling when he abandoned a 25 year Hollywood career to become a best-selling author of books critical of Wall Street obfuscation and greed….
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