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Required Viewing: TCM Goes Back to School

February 11, 2009 John Gibbon

Ah crud!!! You know, I promised I wouldn’t allow myself to get behind on my schooling this semester. And then sure enough, I got swallowed up in textbooks and caught under a growing mountain of [click for more]

When World War Two Lost The Oscar: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

February 2, 2009 Rich Drees

In 1998, three of the five films nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award were films that dealt with World War Two from three very unique perspectives. Though none of the three would win the [click for more]

Friday Flashback: Ritchie Valens In GO, JOHNNY, GO!

January 30, 2009 Rich Drees

Next Tuesday, February 3, marks the 50th Anniversary of the first tragic deaths to occur in the burgeoning rock and roll genre. A small plane took off from a Fargo, North Dakota airport. Aboard it [click for more]

Monty Python Proves The Entertainment Corporations Wrong

January 25, 2009 Rich Drees

For years we’ve heard sob stories about how the entertainment industry has been losing money to various online outlets that made the material available for free. But now the good men of Monty Python have [click for more]

Friday Flashback: THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK

January 23, 2009 Rich Drees

When director Gus Van Sant’s biopic Milk was released, many people noticed that the story hit many of the same points that Rob Epstein’s Oscar-winning documentary The Times Of Harvey Milk. I see it as [click for more]

Required Viewing: TCM Pays Tribute To Montalban

January 22, 2009 John Gibbon

Turner Classic Movies is preempting its schedule tomorrow, Friday January 23rd, in order to pay tribute to one of Hollywood’s classiest men, Ricardo Montalban. The following films are scheduled to air: 7:30 AM Fiesta (1947) [click for more]

Weekend Releases: January 16

January 15, 2009 Bill Gatevackes

Defiance (Paramount Vantage, 1,789 theaters, 137 minutes, Rated R): Expanding from its NY, LA new year’s eve opening, this film gets a wider release this week. And thank goodness for it, because it adds a [click for more]

Vanishing History: Rupert Pupkin’s Payphone

January 12, 2009 Rich Drees

A city is like a living, breathing entity in that it is constantly undergoing growth and change. Fortunately, films have helped capture the looks of certain locations at a specific moment in time, preserving them [click for more]

Geek Gear: Harlan Ellison’s Watching

January 12, 2009 Rich Drees

Geek Gear- Something so absolutely geeky you have no choice but to acquire one as quickly as possible. Writer Harlan Ellison has been called a lot of things over the years, Spanning over 25 years [click for more]

Friday Flashback: THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

January 9, 2009 Rich Drees

In 1903, The Great Train Robbery, a (by today’s standards) short, twelve-minute film from Thomas Edison’s Edison Films production company would forever transform motion pictures from curious novelty to the emerging art form of the [click for more]