Nearly everyone is familiar with MGM’s movie based on L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but how have other filmmakers portrayed Dorothy, her fantastic friends, and the Emerald City? Follow the history of Oz before the 1939 musical here.
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The legend is gone. Patrick Swayze sadly passed away on September 14, due to complications from pancreatic cancer, but he left behind a plethora of entertaining releases in his filmography. Sure, everyone knows about his big hits Dirty Dancing and…
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It’s a rare accomplishment for an actor or actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for their very first film appearance. It’s even more rare for that first appearance to come at the rather advanced (for Hollywood) age of 61!…
Read more →Takeaway quote: “This is not a joke.” Hat tip to Hollywood Nostradamus, who sent word of this trailer shedding yet more inspirational light on the world of Steven Seagal.
Read more →You’re sitting in the theater or at home watching a movie when out of nowhere somebody speaks a line of dialogue you can’t help laughing at. But the line is not meant to be comical. Nevertheless, you can’t believe what…
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He’s an Oscar winner with a new film directed by Werner Herzog coming out (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans), so it’s not really like Nicolas Cage needs any career advice from a blog. Let’s have some fun anyway: Isn’t…
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R.J. Cutler has based his career on observing the real and turning it into the reel. The Yale-educated former theater director has made a name for himself in the worlds of both non-fictional film and television. He was the producer…
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If you were a “kid” growing up in the United States or Canada in the nineteen-forties, you probably spent many a Saturday afternoon at your local movie house. For twenty-five cents you got admission to the theater, a box…
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Younger horror fans may not know it, but for a brief period in fright film history–between the ’30s and ’40s heyday of Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man and the ’80s “splatter” era of Michael, Jason and Freddy–literature’s original…
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You’d never know that the guy sitting a few feet away was one of the “screaming comics of the 1980s.” It couldn’t be Sam Kinison. He’s gone, died in a car accident in Needles, California in 1992. Andrew Dice Clay?…
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