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Singin’ in the Rain: Guest Movie Review
It’s interesting how some of the best Hollywood movies of the early ’50s—thinking specifically of Singin’ in the Rain and 1950’s Sunset Blvd. but several others fit the bill as well—seized the moment to look back acidly on the transition of…
Read more →Charlie Sheen, You’re No Marlon Brando
Everyone’s all a-Twitter (oh, ugh, sorry) over the many colorful turns of phrase we’ll now always associate with the very public meltdown of Charlie Sheen. No doubt you’ve heard some of these repeated already in mixed company. Maybe you have…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 03.20.11
March 25, 1932: Olympic swimming champ Johnny Weissmuller is Tarzan the Ape Man and Maureen O’Sullivan Jane in the first in MGM’s jungle adventure series. March 24, 1939: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce make the first of 14 screen pairings…
Read more →The King of Kongs
The 1930s. The decade of the Great Depression. Music and gangsters dominated the box office. And yet, a giant gorilla saved a major film studio (RKO) from bankruptcy in 1933. It wasn’t music, singing, dancing, or machine guns. I reiterate:…
Read more →Fire on the Amazon: Sandra Bullock’s Rumble in the Jungle
Before her Oscar win or even her breakout role in Speed, Sandra Bullock heated up the Brazilian rainforest in the 1990 action/drama Fire on the Amazon. Take a look back in this early entry in Sandy’s career.
Read more →Limitless Movie Review
The very title seems to invite excess: Limitless. This new thriller from director Neil Burger (The Illusionist) offers the Philadelphia-born, up-and-coming leading man Bradley Cooper the opportunity to prove that his breakout appeal in the comedy hit The Hangover was…
Read more →The Exorcist: Ten Things To Know About The Movie
Here are 10 trivia facts about The Exorcist from 1973, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are lots of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add…
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Bettie Page: The Pin-Up Queen of the Universe
Guest blogger FCEtier writes: She was Playboy’s “Miss January” in 1955. I was two years old. In the era of the “sweater girls,” it would be years before I became aware of Bettie Page and what a “pin-up” was. Mangham,…
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