Four high school babes are trigger-happy criminals by night in the remarkedly awful 1956 crime drama The Violent Years. Boasting a screenplay by an uncredited Ed Wood, the film has a prologue of the girls–ringleader Paula, Georgia, Phyliss, and Geraldine–scowling…
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There’s a certain football championship game coming this weekend. For film fans, though, the real “Super Sunday” is still more than a month away. Hollywood’s biggest night will happen on March 15, when the 98th annual Academy Awards will…
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Now, don’t tell us you don’t remember him. Ned…Ryerson. “Needlenose Ned?” “Ned the Head?” He did the “whistling belly button” trick at the Case Western High talent show? Got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn’t graduate? Sure, most people think of today,…
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Her nearly 50-year career seamlessly crossed between movies and television. During that span, Canadian-born actress Catherine O’Hara created many memorable comedic characters while winning over audiences with just a single name: “Kevin!” A native of Toronto, Ontario, O’Hara was…
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Another action thriller that’s a fun watch–despite a couple of major plot holes–is 1980’s Night of the Juggler. It stars James Brolin as former New York City cop-turned-truck driver Sean Boyd, a divorced dad with a 13-year-old daughter, Kathy (Abby…
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From a landmark ’50s western to Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s acerbic look at TV news, from the timeless slapstick of Jacques Tati to an off-the-wall Japanese mix of action and e-commerce, there’s plenty to pick from in the seven…
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The 98th Annual Academy Awards nominations were announced last week (January 22, to be precise). And as usual with the Oscars they didn’t make everyone happy. Remember this is an Academy that has made many blunders in its past. Glenn…
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It was a traditional kiddie show…that offered humor only adults would get and mocked the conventions of the genre. The host loved to play vintage vaudeville and novelty songs…while he welcomed such guest performers as Jon Bon Jovi, David Johansen,…
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The entertainment landscape was undergoing a seismic shift 75 years ago, as more people were staying home to enjoy such debuting TV series as Dragnet, I Love Lucy, and The Roy Rogers Show. In response, the movies of 1951…
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It is true. Everything old is new again. A major plot point in the 1975 spy thriller Three Days of the Condor has to do with oil. Sound familiar? Robert Redford stars as Joe Turner, a CIA researcher who finds…
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