This is an interesting week for Blu-ray and DVD releases, as the majority of titles hitting home video this week are archival classics from the likes of the Warner Archive Collection, the Criterion Collection, and the British Film Institute. There…
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Andy Griffith first rose to stardom as folk-singing drifter Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes in this look at the intersection of media, celebrity, and politics from director Elia Kazan and screenwriter Budd Schulberg (who won an Academy Award for his screenplay for…
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Rumble…rumble. That’s the sound of Earthquake (1974), one of several big budget, all-star disaster movies made in the 1970s. Airport (1970) perfected the formula, but it was The Poseidon Adventure (1972) that inspired a dozen or so imitations (not counting the spoofs…
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With Easter upon us, one rabbit-centric film to watch today hopped out at us.. We are of course talking about the 1950 comedy Harvey starring Jimmy Stewart in a side-splitting performance that has become a true comedy classic. Based on…
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Cecil B. DeMille‘s final film was The Ten Commandments, a grand-scale religious epic starring Charlton Heston as Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince chosen by God to abandon a life of luxury and lead his fellow Israelites out of slavery. The…
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This year marks the 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott‘s sci-fi/horror masterpiece Alien. Beginning Friday and leading up to the actual anniversary date on May 25th, we’ll be featuring a variety of new articles and posts from our archives celebrating the…
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Okay friends, it’s time for another Create-A-Caption! This week, we wanted to have some fun with a bona fide classic, 1934’s William Powell/Myrna Loy screwball comedy/murder mystery The Thin Man. We’ve taken an image from Nick and Nora’s feature debut…
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Now available on Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics, the 1952 Western Bend of the River stars James Stewart as Glyn McLyntock — a former outlaw who is now working clean as a wagon scout on a perilious mission to assist…
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The summer movie season officially gets underway (yes, we know it’s still Spring) when Avengers: Endgame hits theaters this Thursday. A sequel to last year’s Avengers: Infinity War, the film — spoiler alert — finds our heroes picking up the…
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From The Cinematic Bartender by Winthrop J Quiggy: Bronx Warrior (aka “Italian Rip-off”) Take one jigger of Escape from New York. Add two shots of The Warriors. Sprinkle with a liberal dose of Mad Max. Shake vigorously. Serve over ice…
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