Before he played a sailor in The Sand Pebbles and gambled for high stakes in The Cincinnati Kid, Steve McQueen starred as a Naval officer gambling for big bucks in The Honeymoon Machine (1961). But whereas the later films were “A” list…
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Another legend has left us. Famed director Miloš Forman has died at the age of 86 following a short illness. Having won Oscars for Best Director for his work on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus (films that…
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Today is Friday the 13th, a day that the superstitious fear and movie lovers adore. Since 1980, the Friday the 13th film series has spawned numerous sequels, an underappreciated TV series, a team-up film with Freddy Krueger, a 2009 remake,…
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In honor of National Pet Day, we are reprinting this post celebrating that most beloved of pop culture pets, Lassie! Based on the novel of the same name by Eric Knight, Lassie Come Home first hit theaters on October 7,…
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Typically, April isn’t the best month for new DVD and Blu-ray releases. That most definitely isn’t the case so far this year though. We are only in the second week of the month and so far it’s been one hit…
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I confess that I have never been a Sandy Dennis fan. Perhaps, it was her choice of roles, but her characters always came across as a contrived combination of exaggerated emotions. But after recently watching Up the Down Staircase (1967),…
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In hindsight, The Shaggy Dog (1959) was a landmark Disney film. After all, this amusing comedy perfected the formula for the contemporary live-action family films produced by the studio for the next twenty years. It was also the first of Fred…
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With the recent loss of television maverick Steven Bochco still fresh in our memory, we have found ourselves thinking a lot about the legacy he leaves behind. One of our favorites of his work is the gritty (and still ahead…
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Commissioned by NBC to air during the broadcast of the 1980 Summer Olympics (though that never happened, of course), this first in an intended two-part spoof of the games features anthropomorphic animals, such as alligator runner Bolt Jenkins, dachshund skier…
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Oompa, Loompa, doompahty doo, have we got a collectible for you! Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew, cover it with chocolate and a miracle or two? The Candy Man can! Since it was originally released nearly 50…
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