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AIRPLANE! vs ZERO HOUR!

July 10, 2007 Rich Drees

One of my all time favorite movies is the Zucker-Abrams-Zucker disaster spoof Airplane!. If you by chance haven’t seen the film, there’s no real way to describe the film’s offbeat, random, out-of-left field sense of [click for more]

A Long Time Ago…

May 25, 2007 Rich Drees

I wasn’t even sure I wanted to write about the 30th anniversary of the release of Star Wars for today. There has already been enough ink spilt and bandwidth burnt about the franchise recently that [click for more]

Remake Roundup: FAME, SLEUTH, HELLRAISER and More

May 13, 2007 Rich Drees

Fame Although it hasn’t been announced officially, Film Jerk reported on Friday that Andy Fickman has been selected to helm MGM’s remake of Fame, which we previously reported about here. As Fickman has already directed [click for more]

Remake Roundup: Fame, 3:10 To Yuma, Barbarella and more

April 18, 2007 Rich Drees

Lot’s of remakes being announced by the studios over the last week or so. Here’s a rundown of what cinematic new retreads are coming our way. Fame MGM has announced that they will be revisiting [click for more]

Mr. Blandings Goes To Toledo

April 2, 2007 Rich Drees

Hollywood has always been about ballyhoo, sometimes hyping its films through outlandish promotions designed to catch a moviegoers imagination enough to get them down to the local cinema and placing their cash into the boxoffice [click for more]

THE GOONIES: Good Enough For Broadway?

March 28, 2007 Rich Drees

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that while director Richard Donner never really had a solid script for a sequel to his 1985 film The Goonies, he may be revisiting the story of a group of kids [click for more]

Shooting ANIMAL HOUSE

March 26, 2007 Rich Drees

Pre-Saturday Night Live, the predominate comic voice in America in the 1970s was the National Lampoon magazine. It should come as no surprise that several of those responsible for the Lampoons’s early success – Michael [click for more]

Not Starring In…

March 18, 2007 Rich Drees

Last month I told you about how Howard Stern almost starred in Barry Levinson’s film Man Of The Year. But it’s no secret that actors are linked to films that they never actually appear in. [click for more]

Censoring Cartoons: 1930s Edition

March 6, 2007 Rich Drees

Over at the fantastic Cartoon Brew, animation historian Jerry Beck has posted scans of a Look magazine article from Januray 1937 which illustrates, through stills and art work provided producer Leon Schlesinger’s artists at Warner’s [click for more]

Remake Roundup: SCANNERS, WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S, GET SMART

February 28, 2007 Rich Drees

Scanners David Cronenberg’s 1981 science-fiction/horror film Scanners is set to be remade under the direction of Darren Lynn Bousman, helmer of Saw II (2005) and III (2006) as well as the upcoming Saw IV (later [click for more]