A while back our own Brian Sieck blogged about Chick Flicks and—despite its negative connotation—how dudes should at least try to embrace them. All the films Brian mentioned (Dirty Dancing, Love Actually, An Affair to Remember, The Notebook) are well…
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This Week In Film History, 11-16-09
November 19, 1924: Mystery surrounds the death of director Thomas H. Ince. Rumors suggest he was shot aboard the yacht of William Randolph Hearst. November 18, 1928: Mickey Mouse whistles his way onto the screen in his first speaking performance,…
Read more →Movie Review: Disney’s A Christmas Carol, Astro Boy, Aliens in the Attic
Movie Irv Slifkin invites young moviegoers to share their movie reviews on the Movie Buzz podcast! Sarah and Rosie are back for these Kids’ Critiques of Disney’s 3-D animated A Christmas Carol, as well as reviews of the Astro Boy…
Read more →The Thin Man: How I Learned to Love Nick & Nora Charles
Long before McMillan and Wife and Hart to Hart graced the TV airwaves, William Powell and Myrna Loy ruled the roost at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios with a series of movies based on the Dashiell Hammett detective novel, The Thin Man.
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It Happened One Night
You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section! They both smelt it. The question was: Who dealt it?
Read more →That Zorro, What A Guy
You can have your Douglas Fairbanks, your Alain Delon, and your George Hamilton, too. For my money, Zorro, the masked swashbuckler, will always be Guy Williams. That’s because he’s also the Zorro I grew up with. Yes, whenever TV showed…
Read more →This Week In Film History 11-08-09
: After gaining fame in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Italian-born leading man Rudolph Valentino mesmerizes female filmgoers as The Sheik. November 13, 1921 November 15, 1935: The Marx Brothers‘ first feature for MGM, A Night at the…
Read more →Oren Moverman & The Messenger
Hollywood is stuck between Iraq and a hard place. Even though three different big-name directors flirted with making The Messenger, a script authored by Oren Moverman and Alessandro Cammon, differences over the screenplay and scheduling pushed them away from the…
Read more →The Third Degree: Shining A Harsh Light On Similar Movie Posters
Here’s the third in our series of “poster doppelgangers” that confirm to movie fans like yourself that, yes, you have seen that poster before! I’ve tried to keep parody posters and the obvious low budget rip-offs of famous movie one-sheets to a minimum. Very…
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