Whether it’s referred to as “Episode V” or “the second Star Wars film,” 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back is considered to many fans to be the best film in the history of the series. Along with introducing such familiar faces…
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Sure, the literary crowd comes out to salute James Joyce and Ulysses on Bloomsday every June. And Seinfeld aficionados will put up an aluminum pole and air their grievances each December for Festivus. But when it comes to pop…
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“Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking.” “By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.” “Gird your loins!” We first heard these now-immortal lines in 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada, a wicked look at the running…
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Back in February I wrote an article saluting the 1931 horror landmark Dracula on the 95th anniversary of its Valentine’s Day debut. Tod Browning’s eerie shocker starring Bela Lugosi is probably the most popular vampire movie of all time. What…
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Last week Academy Award winner, bestselling author, and cosmic voyager Shirley MacLaine celebrated her 92nd birthday. Along with being a link to Hollywood’s Golden Age, the star of stage, screen, and TV (remember 1971’s Shirley’s World?) is also a…
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This Friday kicks off the first weekend of May, which means it’s also the unofficial start of the Summer 2026 film season. Sure, it’s a season with the usual superhero fare (Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Supergirl), reboots (Masters of…
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Bob Dylan’s song “The Times They Are a-Changin’’’ was emblematic of the social and political changes happening in the world in the sixties. The Vietnam war was raging on our TV screens and becoming increasingly unpopular, the hippie movement…
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Carl Denham offering an epitaph for the fallen King Kong. Rick and Louis walking in tandem down the Casablanca airport tarmac. Thelma and Louise putting the pedal to the metal one more time. The movie world is packed with memorable…
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Not many Oscar winners can say their screen career began with them playing opposite a 40-foot-tall gorilla. That she overcame debuting in the 1976 remake of King Kong to become an audience favorite and take home not one, but…
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“Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire.” This was the tag line for 1987’s The Lost Boys, and it was partly accurate. I don’t know that the film makes its…
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