Edward G. Robinson starred as the 19th-century German researcher who fought stigma and skeptics as he sought a cure for syphilis in Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet. For the Movie Scientist Blogathon, we review the 1940 Warner Bros. biodrama.
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This week Liam Neeson makes the jump from action star to funnyman, playing the trigger-happy namesake son of Leslie Nielsen’s Lt. Frank Drebin in the big-screen updating of 1988’s The Naked Gun. Over the last couple of years such popular…
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It’s perhaps the most contentious show biz birthday since Jack Benny. Today, however, is the date most animation fans consider to be Bugs Bunny’s natal day. While prototype versions of the character appeared in four earlier Warner Bros. cartoons, beginning…
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He was far from the first professional wrestler to be featured in movies. Primo Carnera, “Swedish Angel” Tor Johnson, Mike Mazurki, “Gorgeous George” Wagner, and of course Mexico’s El Santo all preceded him on the silver screen. And since…
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Today’s the day comic book fans have dreamed of–or dreaded–for years. Marvel’s original Sliver Age superteam makes its long-awaited MCU debut in Disney’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, starring Vanessa Kirby (Invisible Woman), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Thing), Pedro Pascal (Mr. Fantastic),…
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When one thinks of cinematic werewolves, the first character that generally springs to mind is Lawrence “Larry” Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.), the cursed protagonist introduced in Universal’s 1941 shocker The Wolf Man. Despite dying at that film’s end, Chaney went…
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Sure, to mark the release of the new Superman movie we could run a poll asking you to select your favorite Man of Steel. But, as the saying goes, a hero is only as good as the villains he…
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Smurf’s up! Today is the opening of Paramount’s new animated film Smurfs (posters of which trumpet the rather prosaic tagline “Rihanna is Smurfette”). This will be the Belgian comic book characters’ fifth big-screen appearance since 1976’s Smurfs and the Magic Flute…
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Let’s be honest; when it comes to scenic locations and cinematic appeal, the 50 states are not created equal. Take, for example, my home state of Delaware. The Diamond State was the butt of good-natured ribbing by Mike…
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As evidenced by this month’s release of Jurassic World: Rebirth, movie audiences still can’t enough of dinosaurs. The film franchise based on Michael Crichton’s novel is now 32 years old. Prehistoric creatures, however, have been showing up on the silver…
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