The greatest bicycle movie this side of Vittorio De Sica Bicycle Thieves marked a milestone this past weekend. Saturday was the 40th anniversary of the opening of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Director Tim Burton’s debut feature followed Paul Reubens as Pee-wee…
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It’s a well-known fact that about three-fourths of all Silent Era films no longer exist, their prints having been lost due to decay, neglect, or accident over time. One of the most famous of these missing movies is the 1927…
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Just as in life, animals have always been part of the movies…especially dogs. In the current Superman film (highly recommended) the Man of Steel’s dog Krypto has a major role. Krypto first appeared in Adventure Comics in 1955. He proved…
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If Farrah Fawcett-Majors was the queen of 1970s pin-up models, running a close second was another statuesque blonde in a red swimsuit, Loni Anderson. The TV/film actress, who rose to fame on the 1978-82 CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati…
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This week marks the 119th anniversary of the birth of Academy Award-winning director, screenwriter, and actor John Huston. Born in the small town of Nevada, Missouri on August 5, 1906, John was the son of vaudeville performer/film actor Walter Huston….
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Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/theme. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the films. Today is the debut of the Liam Neeson reboot comedy The…
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Edward G. Robinson starred as the 19th-century German researcher who fought stigma and skeptics as he sought a cure for syphilis in Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet. For the Movie Scientist Blogathon, we review the 1940 Warner Bros. biodrama.
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This week Liam Neeson makes the jump from action star to funnyman, playing the trigger-happy namesake son of Leslie Nielsen’s Lt. Frank Drebin in the big-screen updating of 1988’s The Naked Gun. Over the last couple of years such popular…
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It’s perhaps the most contentious show biz birthday since Jack Benny. Today, however, is the date most animation fans consider to be Bugs Bunny’s natal day. While prototype versions of the character appeared in four earlier Warner Bros. cartoons, beginning…
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He was far from the first professional wrestler to be featured in movies. Primo Carnera, “Swedish Angel” Tor Johnson, Mike Mazurki, “Gorgeous George” Wagner, and of course Mexico’s El Santo all preceded him on the silver screen. And since…
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