This made-for-TV movie hits pretty hard, shining a light on an issue most weren’t aware of in 1975: teenage alcoholism. Even director Richard Donner initially turned the project down b...
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The threat of television loomed heavy over the motion picture industry in the early 1950s, and Hollywood needed to up the ante to compete with the more convenient home-based medium. It...
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In 1968, 51-year-old Richard Proenneke, mechanic and veteran of the U.S. Navy, retired and settled in the Alaskan wilderness, specifically the Twin Lakes area. Skilled at woodworking, Pr...
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On the heels of MGM’s hit 1936 film SAN FRANCISCO , Darryl Zanuck and 20th Century Fox countered with IN OLD CHICAGO, a fictionalized biopic of the O’Leary family, whose cow is rumor...
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DON’T MAKE WAVES gets off to a wild start, then barely slows down to take a breath. Tourist Carlo Cofield (Tony Curtis) stops along a stretch of road in Southern California to admire...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is one very, VERY smart dude. Having studied at Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton, he is the world’s foremost Astrophysicist. He’s penned a number of books, resear...
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Nigel Dobson (Hugh Grant) and his wife of seven years, Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas), are on a Mediterranean cruise. Shortly after boarding the ship, they meet French beauty Mimi (Emmanue...
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Director Robert Wise infuses his 1948 western BLOOD ON THE MOON with a film noir sensibility, giving us a hero we barely know who sometimes does things that are less than heroic. Invit...
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Jesse James has been the subject of a number of films over the years. From director Henry King’s 1939 biopic JESSE JAMES to Walter Hill’s superb THE LONG RIDERS , the exploits of the...
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In his book A Futile and Stupid Gesture (a biography of National Lampoon founder Doug Kenney), author Josh Karp called 1982’s MOVIE MADNESS “A cocaine-fueled fiasco”, adding “nob...
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I never read the comic, and I doubt I saw a single episode of the cartoon series from start to finish, but man oh man did I have fun with 2001’s JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS! It is every ...
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Released four years before SPARTACUS , three before BEN-HUR , and eight months prior to Cecil B. DeMille’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS , Warner Brothers lavish production of HELEN OF TROY fea...
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The first hour or so of Robert Aldrich’s THE CHOIRBOYS has the look and feel of a made-for-TV film, but the personality of a bawdy R-rated comedy. Throwing a spotlight on a group of Lo...
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“The uncut video footage you are about to see contains the most important evidence yet made public regarding the UFO abduction phenomenon. This footage is from the North Woods UFO CASE...
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After years away, Janet (Jill Pierce) has returned home for what she hopes will be a quiet weekend with her family. Joined eventually by her boyfriend, professional photographer Steve (J...
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Director Peter Hyams has been on my radar for some time. It’s an admiration that stretches back to 1984, when our next-door neighbor took my brother and I to see 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE...
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High school athlete Berke Landers (Ben Foster) discovers his longtime girlfriend Allison (Melissa Sagemiller) has fallen in love with drama student Bentley Scrumfeld (Shane West). So, Be...
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In my review of 1987’s PROJECT X , I said how the final scene of that movie was “so outlandish that you could only find it in a Hollywood movie”. But as I pointed out, PROJECT X W...
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It says more about me than it does the movie, but I would LOVE to go on the adventure that Dan Bartlett (John Cusack) experiences in 1987’s HOT PURSUIT! After failing his mid-term in...
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While director Savage Steve Holland and star John Cusack were in the process of making ONE CRAZY SUMMER , which marked their second collaboration, Cusack broke away for a few hours to fi...
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Rob Reiner followed up his comedic masterpiece THIS IS SPINAL TAP (which was also his big-screen directorial debut) with 1985’s THE SURE THING, a romantic comedy starring John Cusack ...
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I knew nothing about the real Edwin Boyd going into 2011’s CITIZEN GANGSTER. A veteran of World War II who had dreams of becoming an actor, Boyd, a Canadian, found it difficult to adju...
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“Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond was spawned in the 1920’s - An era of incredible violence This is the way it happened”. Budd Boetticher, who helmed some of the finest westerns of the ...
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Inspired by the 1854 poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson, which detailed a battle during the Crimean War in which the British Light Brigade was routed by Russian troops, Tony Richardson...
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John Lennon gets second billing in the 1967 WWII comedy HOW I WON THE WAR, which is a notable appearance for the late musician because it features him in what is his only non-musical rol...
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