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 →: 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…
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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…
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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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It’s an all-too-common occurrence in sports: A talented player or group of players achieves great success, but stays in the game a little too long, and instead of ending on a high note (like, say, Ted Williams’ homer in his final at-bat…
Read more →All movie fans have ’em! Do you dare film yours and expose it to the world? (From the YouTube channel Vlogging Bastendo)
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In a movie like 1980’s Airplane!, where the jokes are zooming past viewers at a rate of several per minute and the starring cast includes veteran stars the likes of Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack, it takes a…
Read more →: French inventor/film executive Leon Gaumont demonstrates his Chronophone system of showing films with synchronized phonograph cylinders. November 7, 1902 November 4, 1907: The Chicago City Council Ordinance forbids the showing of “obscene and immoral pictures” and grants police…
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This past summer’s news that the Walt Disney Company was buying Marvel Entertainment in a reported $4 billion cash and stock deal had fanboys (and fangirls) of all stripes burning up the Internet for weeks with snarky suggestions (the long-awaited Donald…
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