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Uncle Buck and the State of Family Films
Guest blogger Jason Taylor writes: As I write this article, I’ve just popped in a DVD of Uncle Buck, the 1989 comedy from John Hughes starring John Candy as a hapless but loveable man tasked with watching his nieces and…
Read more →Briefed on Franklin & Bash by Breckin Meyer & Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Breckin Meyer grabs a handful of hard candies and begins chucking them at Mark-Paul Gosselaar, who tries to swat them away with his hands. You don’t expect to see this in the conference room of the posh Rittenhouse Hotel, located…
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You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! “Scotty Bowman used watercolors when designing plays. Toe Blake preferred oils and even acrylics. Me? I like…
Read more →14 Hours (1951): Guest Review
14 Hours is a great, suspenseful, noir type film. The film is based on the story “Man on a Ledge” and according to the folks at Fox, the film is actually based on an incident in 1938 in which a…
Read more →This Week In Film History 05.29.11
June 2, 1916: Victor Schertzinger composes the first original film score for an American feature, Thomas H. Ince‘s Civilization. May 31, 1938: NBC broadcasts the first feature film on television shown in a single installment, The Return of the Scarlet…
Read more →Craptastic Cinema: A Primer
Good day, I’m Julian André, and welcome to Craptastic Cinema. After my debut blog review of one of my all-time favorite craptacular movies Tuff Turf I received many comments from readers and colleagues alike. One in particular had me rankled….
Read more →Broadcast News: Ten Things To Know About The Movie
Here are 10 trivia facts about Broadcast News from 1987, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add…
Read more →On the MGM Recording Stage with Nelson and Jeanette
It took some doing to get Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald out of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer vaults and into viewers’ homes. At this point, it should be said that both Naughty Marietta (1935), their first movie together, and Sweethearts (1938), their first…
Read more →Hobo with a Shotgun (2010) Action Film Starring Rutger Hauer
Everybody out there loved Machete, right? Right??? (Sound of crickets) Well, I certainly loved it, and that makes me more than curious about Hobo with a Shotgun. Rutger Hauer stars as the trigger-happy vagrant in this feature-length expansion of the fake…
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