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Bring On the James Bond Bad Guys
Guest blogger Blair Kramer writes: “Unfortunately you are just a stupid policeman…whose luck has run out!” “No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!” “Yes, give him his cigarettes! It won’t be the nicotine that kills you Mr. Bond!” “Search him from…
Read more →This Week In Film History 06.05.11
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 →My Weekend With Sidney Lumet And Sean Connery
Hello, film fans. We’re fresh off of the Memorial Day weekend, and yours truly needs to get something off of his chest. It has been almost two years now since the passing of industry luminary, Sidney Lumet, one of the…
Read more →Father of the Bride and a Reflection on Mid-Century Hollywood
Guest blogger The Lady Eve writes: During World War II Hollywood churned out popular pictures both entertaining and patriotic, bolstering home front morale and earning enormous box office receipts. Between 1942 and 1945, Americans were spending 23% of their recreation dollars…
Read more →No More B.S.!
If only. Don’t be fooled: The eighth and final season of Penn and Teller’s saucy and scintillating Showtime program may have made its appearance on home video just a short time ago, marking the end of the popular duo’s televised…
Read more →Midnight in Paris (2011) Written and Directed By Woody Allen
Woody Allen, who must now be regarded as cinema’s most reliable auteur, is back. This time, Owen Wilson is playing him. Well, maybe let’s just say he’s playing the Woody Allen part. OK, that’s still maybe not quite so fair….
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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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