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A shocking breach of mood etiquette. How could this happen? Is it generational? Nothing says ‘creepy’ like Toccata in D Minor rendered on the...
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A shocking breach of mood etiquette. How could this happen? Is it generational? Nothing says ‘creepy’ like Toccata in D Minor rendered on the...
The actress and comedian died in her sleep. Phyllis Diller started in radio in 1952 before starting her stand-up career in 1955, making her...
Wouldn’t it have been easier to just make a 3D, stop-motion animated film? Why goof around with technology to make a regular movie appear...
When naming the key filmmakers who have emerged in the past 50 years, there are too few names associated with comedy. Woody Allen is...
An amoral CIA—how novel!—has created super killers that it now wants eliminated. Ah, but Dr. Frankenstein has wrought too well in the person of...
Director Len Wiseman’s cluttered film explores what’s literally on your mind. Among a mound of other issues, Wiseman cinematically examines the consequences of erasing...
When filmmakers take a stand about issues that matter, who can remain unmoved? Director Akiva Schaffer certainly doesn’t flinch from social activism as he...
With the passing recently of Producer Richard D. Zanuck, I thought I’d take a look at one of his more obscure career highlights. ...
Keep in mind that I rarely implore, but today is different: stay open to new cinematic techniques. Director Christopher Nolan’s dramatic Act III will...
One of the most prolific show business figures, Bob Hope is mainly remembered today for his work with the USO tours and his NBC...
Always mess with success. This anti-wisdom explains the odd creative calls behind Fox’s newest installment of their popular CGI series. Ice Age 1 –...
The Syfy Channel features an endless parade of eat-‘em-ups with names like Sharktopus vs. Gekkosaurus, any one of which you and I could write...
At best, Mankind is only three foodless days away from The Road Warrior. That doesn’t apply to Los Angeles where chaos is the norm,...
This week, The Sarah Silverman Program: The Complete Series has been released on DVD in an awesome box set. Irreverent, funny and sublimely unsettling,...
Some celebrity couples are over as quickly as they start, others are the stuff of legend and epitomize true love, like Bogart and Bacall....
Once more, “making it on your own” and “finding yourself” take center stage only this time in CGI on the big screen. A Pixar...
Adam Sandler takes the lead in addressing a vital social issue. In this latest movie, we’re confronted with the saga of a thirteen-year-old father...
This is not a prequel to Alien. Though set in the same time period, this latest offering by Ridley Scott is something different than...
I hate reality shows. I say that from experience. I’ve seen most of them at one time or another (usually because I sat down...
There are so many credited writers on this film that I’m certain at least two people reading this review will have written the screenplay....
I just talked about rampant precociousness, but the youthful trope has returned so my work continues. This week’s movie presents two twelve-year-olds (Jared Gilman...
In the annals of classic screen comedy, there are perhaps no more hotly debated yet enduring comedians than the Three Stooges. A vaudeville, and...
Without Matty Simmons, the world might be a very different place. A former newspaper reporter, Simmons was the Executive Vice President of Diner’s Club,...
The Avengers movie is coming next month, and I am so ready for this. I’m not even a Joss Whedon fan, but I know...