By way of introduction, this is the premiere installment in what I hope will be a regular series of columns discussing the latest animated releases on home video, as well as new titles on the big screen and TV, along with some…
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By way of introduction, this is the premiere installment in what I hope will be a regular series of columns discussing the latest animated releases on home video, as well as new titles on the big screen and TV, along with some…
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Suppose for a moment you were an actor. What would you do if, in the opening credits of what’s arguably the biggest film you’ll ever be in, the studio misspelled your name? Would you get flustered and sputter to yourself in…
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Since the beginning of motion pictures, there have been directors and actors whose creative collaborations have provided filmgoers with some of the screen’s most magical moments: Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, John Ford and John Wayne, Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune,…
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He’s been called “Zero Marx,” “the Missing Marx Brother” and “the Rodney Dangerfield” of the foursome. He was part of the screen’s greatest comedy team, yet–ironically–is now a footnote in Hollywood history, and on those rare occasions his name is brought up it’s…
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“I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.” So said the man who would eventually be voted number one in an American Film Institute poll of the greatest screen actors of all time. It may have been…
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I’m sorry to disappoint you, but that racy-sounding headline that drew your attention here merely means that I am both a stamp collector and a movie buff (boy, hard to believe I’m still single). These dual obsessions interests don’t at first glance seem like…
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Last week on this site an article examined the career of SCTV regular-turned-movie dad Eugene Levy, so now let’s turn to a look at his distaff counterpart, a gifted comic actress from the Great White North who’s also gone on to big-screen…
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There’s a scene near the end of Ed Wood, Tim Burton’s hilariously touching ode to the grade-Z “worst director of all time,” where the title character (Johnny Depp) is seated in the balcony during the Hollywood premiere of his 1959 sci-fi opus…
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