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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]

Whoops! T4 Toys Leak Spoiler

January 5, 2009 Rich Drees

While tie-in merchandising can bring in a lot of extra income to a studio, it also has the potential to spoil a film if the merchandise is released too early. A case in point is [click for more]

Hugh Hefner- Film Buff

January 4, 2009 Rich Drees

When a young Hugh Hefner was looking at getting into the magazine publishing business, he had narrowed down the possible subject matter for his magazine to two ideas- one was a sophistacated gentlemen’s magazine and [click for more]

Christmas Cartoon: THE SNOWMAN

December 24, 2008 Rich Drees

Tomorrow sees the release of Valkyrie, director Bryan Singer’s thriller about a real life plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler planned by some of his own Third Reich officers. Granted, the film is probably not the [click for more]

Required Viewing: TCM’s Van Johnson Tribute

December 23, 2008 Rich Drees

Turner Classic Movies will be paying tribute to Van Johnson this evening by preempting its previously scheduled films to present five of the actor’s films. The schedule is as follows- 8:00 PM- In the Good [click for more]

What If Brad Bird Had Directed THE SPIRIT?

December 15, 2008 Rich Drees

Out of the thousands of films that are actively being developed at one time, only a small handful ever reach the point where they are actually produced. As Hollywood is not necessarily a meritocracy, the [click for more]