Well, there’s roughly seven weeks to go on the calendar, and it looks as though Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Despicable Me 4 will take home top honors in the 2024 box office race, proving yet again that…
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What’s Your Favorite Audie Murphy Film Performance?
Happy Veterans Day to everyone, and a heartfelt “Thank you” to all the men and women who have served in America’s military past and present. On this day we’d like to offer a special salute to the movie career of…
Read more →Kung Fu, Cavemen, and Cars: Hanna-Barbera’s 1974-75 Saturday Morning Shows
As anyone who’s ever watched Baggy Pants and the Nitwits can tell you, the 1970s were a strange time in the half-century history of kids’ Saturday morning television. The late ’60s superhero craze, brought on by the popularity of ABC’s…
Read more →Which Is the Best Best Christmas Pageant Ever?
Well, the candy bags are going on closeout to make room for the candy canes, and that means the holiday movie season is starting to ramp up. One of the first offerings out the gate this year is The Best…
Read more →Our Election Day Pick: The Great Man Votes
Happy Election Day, everyone. I’m on my way to the polling place now (I hope you’re doing or have done the same), but I’d like to take just a moment to suggest that–once you’ve fulfilled your Constitutional privilege–you might consider…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Powell and Pressburger Film?
During a collaborative heyday that spanned the 1940s into the early 1950s, British director Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Hungarian-born screenwriter Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988)–or, as per their production company stamp, “The Archers”–crafted A Matter of Life and Death (A.K.A Stairway to…
Read more →Creepy Crawlers: Cinema’s Scariest Babies
Let’s face it: for all their cuteness, babies can sometimes be a bit unsettling. I mean, they’re like tiny people who are always wanting something, and every once in a while you get the feeling there’s something going on behind…
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Some 16 years ago, enraptured moviegoers watched as ex-CIA Bryan Mills gave a spare but chilling warning over the phone to the sex traffickers that just abducted his teenage daughter: “…[W]hat I do have are a very particular set of…
Read more →Mitzi Gaynor: ’50s Musicals’ “Razzle Dazzle” Gal
She was one of the last living links to the Golden Age of Hollywood musicals, and with her passing last week at the age of 93, singer/dancer/actress Mitzi Gaynor leaves behind a memorable body of work in both movies and…
Read more →King of the Jungle, Man of Bronze: Remembering Ron Ely
To classic movie fans, the first name that comes to mind when someone mentions Tarzan is, of course, Johnny Weissmuller. For many of us born in the second half of the “Baby Boom,” though, there’s a place in our collective…
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