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The entire Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition is 15 years old . More specifically, Return of the Jedi: Special Edition was released 15 years ago TODAY. Check out the trailer for the St...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2012/03/star-wars-trilogy-special-edition-is-15.html

Vanilla Ice gifted the world with his acting 20 years ago. His movie, Cool as Ice, debuted in Oct 1991.  And the world would never be the same. Check out the trailer:

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/11/cool-as-ice-oct-18-1991.html

Check out AWESOME-tober-fest at my other blog for a Halloween celebration. This year I'm reviewing all things Dracula! This is an ad for a parody of Dracula starring George Hamilton as the...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/10/double-feature-friday-dracula-spoofs.html

Check out AWESOME-tober-fest at my other blog for a Halloween celebration. This year I'm reviewing all things Dracula! Here's an ad for Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's n...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/10/bram-stokers-dracula-nov-20-1992.html

This is a newspaper ad for a 1952 stage production of Dracula.  This particular stage production was the same adaptation of Stoker's novel that Bela Lugosi was starring in around 1927 before...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/10/dracula-dec-22-1952.html

Howard the Duck was released 25 years ago today on Aug 1, 1986. Infamously, it bombed at the box office and is widely considered one of the worst movies of the 80s. Also turning 25 years ol...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/08/howard-duck-aug-1-1986.html

Cannonball Run turned 30 years old this week. So for Double Feature Friday, here are ads for the sequels. Here's the first sequel to Cannonball Run from 1984. Nearly all the main characters ...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/06/double-feature-friday-cannonball-run-ii.html

Looking at movies about illegal cross country road races... Here's an ad for The Gumball Rally.

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/06/gumball-rally-aug-13-1976.html

I'm looking at cross country road race movies this week. Here's an ad for Cannonball! from 1976. David Carradine plays an ex-con who signs up for an illegal outlaw road race that starts in S...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/06/cannonball-nov-5-1976.html

The Cannonball Run turned 30 years old this week.  So I'm looking at ads for other "cross country race" movies this week. Here's an ad for the Frankie and Annette feature, Fireball 500. The...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/06/fireball-500-aug-4-1966.html

Cannonball Run turned 30 years old this week, so I'm looking at ads for movies about cross country car races. Here's an ad for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World from 1963. This was an all-star...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/06/its-mad-mad-mad-mad-world.html

Cannonball Run turns 30 years old today. So here's an ad for the first one. All week this week I'll look at ads for movies that were similar to, if not direct inspirations for, Cannonball Run...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/06/cannonball-run-1981.html

Here's a 1982 ad for a re-release of the AC/DC concert film, Let There Be Rock. The movie was originally released in 1980 and featured footage from their concert in Paris in 1979. That 1979 t...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/06/acdc-let-there-be-rock-may-1982.html

It's the Vincentennial.  Vincent Price would have been 100 years old this year. Here is an ad for one of the movies that made Price famous, The Fly from 1958. Here's an ad for the sequ...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/05/double-feature-friday-fly-and-return-of.html

Here's an ad for the teen comedy Midnight Madness from 1980. It stars David Naughton, Stephen Furst and Michael J Fox. I couldn't find the trailer, but here's a great scene in the movie tha...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/05/midnight-madness-feb-15-1980.html

Finishing up underwater disasters this week... Here's the ad for the 1977 killer whale movie, Orca. I love how they built up the killer whale in advertisements for this movie. Watch the trai...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/04/double-feature-friday-orca-and-up-from.html

This week's theme continues last week's, underwater movies . Here's an ad for Deepstar Six. I've always loved the look of this movie's poster, but I've never seen the actual movie. The synop...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/04/deepstar-six-1989.html

Continuing my look at underwater movies. Here's an ad for James Cameron's The Abyss starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio and Michael Biehn.  It's about a group of deep sea diver...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/04/abyss-aug-11-1989.html

I'm going to continue my theme from last week of underwater movies . Here's an ad for 1989's Leviathan.  The story involves underwater divers who discover a wrecked Soviet ship and bring ba...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/04/leviathan-mar-17-1989.html

Chuck Heston week was really last week.  However, last Friday was April Fool's Day so I felt I had to post the April Fool's Day ad .  So, better late than never, here's an awesome triple fe...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/04/triple-feature-friday-pinocchio-omega.html

Continuing our theme of underwater mayhem... Here's an ad for War Gods of the Deep. The movie was alternately titled City in the Sea.  Set in 1903, the film features a group of people disco...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/04/war-gods-of-deep-sep-10-1965.html

We saw Jaws yesterday. Now let's look at another underwater monster movie... This movie was ridiculously similar to Jaws. It featured a giant sea creature attacking humans (a moray eel and ...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/04/deep-jun-24-1977.html

Yesterday was Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea featuring a battle with a giant squid.  I'm continuing that theme today with more underwater mayhem. The original blockbuster. One of th...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/04/jaws-jun-20-1975.html

Here's an ad for Walt Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason and Peter Lorre. It was based on the book by Jules Verne. This was Disney's first feature film t...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/04/20000-leagues-under-sea-dec-24-1954.html

Happy April Fool's Day! Here's an ad for the 1986 horror movie, April Fool's Day. It stars Deborah Foreman as Muffy St John who invites 8 people to her island mansion to spend the night. At d...

http://heldover.paxholley.net/2011/04/april-fools-day-mar-28-1986.html