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Friday Flashback: BACK TO THE FUTURE’s Two Jennifers

July 31, 2009 Rich Drees

Despite an ending that promised more adventures, Back To The Future was never intended to be the first installment in a series of films. But as is the way of Hollywood, the film’s resounding box [click for more]

Friday Flashback: TIN TOY

March 27, 2009 Rich Drees

Twenty years ago this coming Sunday, history was made when PIXAR and director John Lasseter won their first Academy Award for the animated short Tin Toy. But it wasn’t just a first for Lasseter. Tin [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]

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]

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]