“Grease is the time, is the place, is the motion, and Grease is the way we are feeling.” On June 16th, 1978, the motion picture Grease first hit theaters. Is it hyperbole to say that pop culture has never been…
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Toga! Toga! Today’s pick for Trailer of the Day is National Lampoon’s Animal House, John Landis‘ hugely influential campus comedy. The film chronicles the “slobs vs. straights” war that rages between two fraternities at the fictional Faber College in 1962….
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If adventure has a name…it must be Create-A-Caption! This week, our Create-A-Caption focuses on the 1981 blockbuster smash Raiders of the Lost Ark. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas‘ rousing adventure introduced the world to archaeologist/adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), and…
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Once again, Avengers: Infinity War is dominating the global box office. So just as we did last week, we will be dedicating this week’s Sunday Funday post to the film…specifically it’s mad titan, Thanos. As portrayed by a CGI-enhanced Josh…
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It was on this date back in 1915 that Orson Welles was born. The legend responsible for Citizen Kane (perhaps his most enduring achievement) and the Mercury Radio Theatre’s 1938 radio production of War of the Worlds — a history-making…
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Two years after it was originally published, Betty MacDonald’s down home memoir The Egg and I was transformed into a motion picture which hit theaters in May of 1947. In the film, Claudette Colbert stars as city-bred Manhattanite MacDonald, who…
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In 1948, Mr. Belvedere — the outrageous comedy character who debuted in the writing of Gwen Davenport — made his first cinematic appearance in the hilarious feature Sitting Pretty. The film chronicles what happens when lawyer Harry (Robert Young) and…
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With a career as impressive as Orson Welles‘ was, he was bound to have some stories to tell. In a fascinating interview with British broadcasting legend Michael Parkinson in 1974 (the entirety of which can be viewed here), Welles shared…
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It seems unbelievable, but May is upon us. While we can’t do anything about the rapid passing of time, we can in fact point out that with the arrival of another month comes some truly solid new releases. Among the…
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Jim Brymer looks back at that most mirthful of mysteries, The Thin Man: The comedy/mystery The Thin Man was the first to feature Dashiell Hammett‘s characters, and the success and popularity of the booze guzzling high society pair spawned no…
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