Bob Dylan’s song “The Times They Are a-Changin’’’ was emblematic of the social and political changes happening in the world in the sixties. The Vietnam war was raging on our TV screens and becoming increasingly unpopular, the hippie movement…
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Carl Denham offering an epitaph for the fallen King Kong. Rick and Louis walking in tandem down the Casablanca airport tarmac. Thelma and Louise putting the pedal to the metal one more time. The movie world is packed with memorable…
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Not many Oscar winners can say their screen career began with them playing opposite a 40-foot-tall gorilla. That she overcame debuting in the 1976 remake of King Kong to become an audience favorite and take home not one, but…
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“Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire.” This was the tag line for 1987’s The Lost Boys, and it was partly accurate. I don’t know that the film makes its…
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Still trying to figure out what to spend your income tax refund on? Well, there are plenty of classic films coming out on Blu-ray and 4K/UHD from the Kino Lorber Studio Classics line. From comic strip-inspired action and vintage…
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Recently the entertainment world lost two diverse but memorable talents. Stage and screen actress Mary Beth Hurt, who debuted in Woody Allen’s Interiors and co-starred with Robin Williams in The World According to Garp, died this past March…
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Well, it’s that time of year once more. Today is April 15th, aka Tax Day. There are quite a few films out there with a taxation theme, from The Adventures of Robin Hood to 1776 to Everything Everywhere All at…
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Whether he was playing a Mob underling looking out for his longshoreman brother (On the Waterfront), an infamous Chicago gangster (Al Capone), an embittered Holocaust survivor (The Pawnbroker), or a small-town Southern police chief (In the Heat of the Night),…
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Before they became “Desperate,” the housewife was a staple in TV and movies. Usually she was subservient to her husband (and the plot). Other times she was the smartest and cleverest one in the room. Think Lucy on I…
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Four hundred years ago, no one watching Othello at the Globe Theatre cheered when Iago came on stage. Moviegoers in 1946 didn’t root for Mr. Potter in It’s a Wonderful Life. That was then, of course. Nowadays, some of…
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