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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
“Big,” “epic,” and “sprawling” are the words critics frequently use to describe this now-revered 1968 Spaghetti Western. Yet, despite its lengthy running time and visually massive backdrop, Once Upon a Time in West focuses tightly on the relationships among four…
Read more →TV Treasures Featuring Thriller & Checkmate: The Complete Series
Bo Knows Horror: Boris Karloff hosts Thriller: The Complete Series, an impressive 14-DVD set of the classic horror anthology from the 1960s. Image Entertainment has snagged the rights to the much-requested series, in which Boris introduced (and was also featured…
Read more →Are We There Yet? An Interview with Terry Crews & Essence Atkins
It was a hit 2005 movie starring Ice Cube and Nia Long, but now Are We There Yet? has been turned into a TBS sitcom, with Cube producing and ex-football player Terry Crews and sitcom vet Essence Atkins in the…
Read more →Powerful Moments in Film
I know what you’re thinking: There’s hardly enough space to list all the wow! moments ever put to celluloid. And you’re right of course. What with surprise endings, nifty plot twists, stunning revelations and multitudes of audacious, if not scandalous,…
Read more →The Road Is Missing the Emotions of the Novel
I read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road during my move from Texas to Washington, DC. I started at the airport and ended one morning in my bed in DC while my girlfriend was sleeping next to me. It scared me. It…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 06.06.10
June 11, 1922: The “father of the documentary film,” Robert Flaherty, releases his greatest achievement, Nanook of the North. June 6, 1933: The first drive-in theater opens on a 10-acre site on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Camden, N.J. Now Showing:…
Read more →Vincenzo Natali & Splice
It wasn’t too long ago that writer-director Vincenzo Natali was getting bad vibes about his newest film. Splice, the latest effort from the filmmaker, was a project he worked on for ten years, beginning with a script he had written shortly…
Read more →Movie Questions Answered: Show Boat, Hannie Caulder
Question: Will the 1936 Show Boat be put on DVD in the near future? The film was available on Laserdisc several years ago and I consider it the best version of the musical. Answer: Many people share your opinion that…
Read more →A Bijou Flashback: Remembering Will Rogers
Today we pay homage to the film legacy of Will Rogers. He was brilliant at teaching common sense to the common man during the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression; a populist who manipulated the media to educate his fellow citizens…
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