Today is, of course, Groundhog Day. Yes friends, it’s the annual celebration of Punxsutawney Phil’s weather predicting prowess. (For the record, Phil thinks we’ll be having an early spring this year). As you well know, Groundhog Day also happens to…
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Check Out These Fabulous Film Finds from Kino Classics
Two stunning archival titles from Kino Classics are now available. Take a look!: Lights of Old Broadway (1925) After their ship docked in mid-19th-century New York, two abandoned twin foundlings would be brought up into different fates, with Anne de…
Read more →Waiting for Snake: “Escape from New York” and “Escape from L.A.”
John Carpenter is my favorite director, and by extension, I guess you could say Kurt Russell is my second favorite actor (John Wayne is still #1). The reason I say Carpenter is my favorite director and Russell is #2 on…
Read more →Poll: Who’s Your Favorite Character from “A Few Good Men”?
This latest poll focuses on A Few Good Men, director Rob Reiner‘s powerful courtroom drama based on the play by Aaron Sorkin (who wrote the screenplay). Tom Cruise shines as cocky Navy lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee, assigned to defend two…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Dick Tracy
It’s been 30 since Dick Tracy roared into theaters! Director/star Warren Beatty is Chester Gould‘s comic-strip detective, fighting an array of grotesque villains in order to free the city from crime boss “Big Boy” Caprice’s (Al Pacino) grip. Madonna co-stars…
Read more →Movie Trailer of the Day: Life with Mikey
For this latest Movie Trailer of the Day feature, we are taking to you back to 1993 to revisit the endearing showbiz comedy Life with Mikey. Michael J. Fox delivers another hilarious performance in the film as Michael Chapman, an…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Scream
For our final Create-A-Caption before Halloween we are taking a look back at the meta-masterpiece that is Scream. Wes Craven‘s 1996 horror effort was a cultural phenomenon packed with fun and innovation. We’ve taken a still from the film featuring…
Read more →Guest Review: Mars Attacks!
1996. The President was Bill Clinton, who would be seeking his second term that same year. Coincidentally enough, two astoundingly different alien invasion movies, which also featured their own POTUS’s premiered then too. Independence Day was a blockbuster released on…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: A Few Good Men
Let’s go back to 1992 for this week’s Create-A-Caption, taken from director Rob Reiner‘s acclaimed courtroom A Few Good Men. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin adapted his own play for this powerful hit starring Tom Cruise as Lt. Daniel Kaffee, a cocky…
Read more →“Boyz N the Hood” Remains as Powerful as Ever
Writer/director John Singleton burst onto the scene in 1991 with Boyz N the Hood, a stunning drama that chronicled African-American life in South-Central Los Angeles. The film follows three very different young friends (portrayed by Cuba Gooding, Jr., Morris Chestnut,…
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