The independent film trenches are fraught with war stories. Some have unhappy endings, with directors overwhelmed with the demands they encounter, and the finished film—if it gets completed—sometimes turns out nothing like their original version. One common scenario has a…
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Here are 10 trivia facts about The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1975, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to…
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Guest blogger Rick 29 presents this look at the saga of The Bold Ones, the NBC Mystery Movies, and Others: In 1955, U.S television launched one of its most interesting experiments: the umbrella series, in which different TV shows were…
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In his three-and-a-half-star review of Crash—the 1996 David Cronenberg movie about the fetish that combines sexual arousal with car crashes, not the 2005 Best Picture about the fetish that combines racial disharmony with outrageous narrative coincidence—Roger Ebert claimed that Cronenberg’s film was all…
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Twenty-eight years. That’s how long Robert Platshorn spent behind bars, a prisoner for smuggling marijuana in and out of South Florida. The length of time makes him a candidate for entry into the Guinness Book of World Records: Longest time…
Read more →April 24, 1913: With The Bangville Police, the Keystone Kops arrive on scene. Though they’ll last only a few years, they’ll become synonymous with Mack Sennett‘s studio. April 27, 1930: From Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, Lewis Milestone films All Quiet…
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Guest blogger Dave writes: This film is not what I expected… at all. From the title I expected Angels Over Broadway (1940) to be a light, fun, maybe even a heartwarming type of film (why did I have visions of a…
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New kid in town James Spader falls for Kim Richards, girlfriend of a local gang leader, in the L.A.-set teen drama Tuff Turf. Join our resident expert in aromatic movies, Julian Andre, as he determines just how tuff a viewing experience it is.
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Guest blogger Marsha Collock writes: There are some stars that earn the adjective “beloved.” Either for their professional or personal contributions, or both, they are adopted by the audience and become a part of the “family.” Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, separately,…
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