After a hard work week, there are few things as satisfying as sitting back and watching a favorite film. For this latest Open Thread, I want you to tell me what movies you found yourselves enjoying this weekend. So far,…
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With parts of the country experiencing unseasonably warm weather this weekend, we couldn’t think of a more fitting Create-A-Caption than a scene from the 1974 disaster movie classic The Towering Inferno. Below you will see an iconic moment from the…
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Released on July 2, 1980, Airplane! was a smart and sensationally silly comedy that was a joke-a-minute spoof of the sort of disaster films that dominated the box office at the end of the 1970s. It went on to become…
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Henry Mancini was one of the most prolific film composers – and certainly the most famous – in Hollywood throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His popularity outside of the film community was due in no small part to the numerous…
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This week’s new DVDs and Blu-rays are a diverse bunch that includes everything from last year’s (very briefly at least) Best Picture, the latest entry in a weirdly beloved vampire franchise, a probing drama based on one of Ibsen’s masterworks,…
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Following a battle with esophageal cancer and heart disease, famed director Jonathan Demme has died at the age of 73. Known for his unique style and a varied career that has featured concert films (the brilliant Stop Making Sense, showcasing…
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A Valentine to Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries, The Last of Sheila may be best remembered for its off-screen stories. First, though, let’s start with the product on the screen: an all-star whodunit set aboard a yacht cruising the Mediterranean. The…
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Later this week, we’ll be celebrating Alien Day — that annual celebration of Fox’s venerable sci-fi franchise. Honestly though, we are such fans of the xenomorphs that we’ve decided to expand the celebration. So throughout the week we will feature…
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Another icon of 1970s and ’80s TV has left us far too soon. Actress Erin Moran has died at the too-young age of 56 of undisclosed causes. Born in Burbank, California in 1960, Moran first entered show business co-starring on…
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Although there have been hundreds of Westerns released since films began, there is only one that stands saddles and boots above its rivals: John Ford‘s 1939 epic Stagecoach. Filmed in Monument Valley (the site of many real-life sagebrush adventures), the…
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