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Is CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER Dated or Just Downright Creepy?

Aug 11, 2017 0

In this post-Twilight culture, whether or not you like Joan Micklin Silver’s Chilly Scenes of Winter depends largely on your own innate cynicism. The full-blooded romantic might find this 1979 adaptation of Ann Beattie’s best-selling […]

THE BOSTON STRANGLER is No Choke

Aug 9, 2017 0

Richard Fleischer’s 1968 film The Boston Strangler is based on a real life horrific string of grisly murders in the Boston area in the early 1960s. Adapted from Gerold Frank’s book of the same name, […]

Who Ya Gonna Call? GHOST WORLD!

Aug 7, 2017 0

They can’t relate to 99% of humanity. Rebecca and Enid are outcasts in a town some would call a “Ghost World.” The girls are facing the end of high school and the beginning of their […]

THE 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER, Kerwin Mathews, 1960.

In a World: The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

Aug 2, 2017 0

Jonathan Swift’s 1726 satirical novel “Gulliver’s Travels” has been adapted numerous times in many forms. The earliest film adaptation dates back to a 1902 French silent by Georges Méliès and the most recent is a […]

Finding Out Who’s THE MAN IN THE MOON

Jul 31, 2017 0

The Man in the Moon (1991), the final film directed by Robert Mulligan, is a coming of age drama that rivals even The Notebook, a love story that sets the stage for the trials and tribulations […]

A Very PRETTY POISON

Jul 27, 2017 0

When I told a few friends of mine that I was going to be watching the 1968 film Pretty Poison, a film that I hadn’t seen before, a number of them were surprised I didn’t […]

“You’re Welcome Here Anytime” – Remembering Robert Osborne

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by Jill Blake, Senior Editor Five years ago this May, I had the honor of sitting in on one of Robert Osborne’s shoots for TCM. I had recently attended a screening of Seven Brides for [...]

5 Reasons The Beatles’ 1964 Washington D.C. Concert Kicks Ass

Feb 11, 2016 6

52 years ago today, on a frigid February afternoon, The Beatles played their first ever concert in the United States at the Washington D.C. Coliseum, to a sold out audience. The energy of that performance is as riveting [...]
The 8 Most Cinematic Duran Duran Music Videos Of All Time

Apr 15, 2016 5

When my big sister and I were growing up the 80s, I was pretty much at her mercy when it came to … everything. And without a doubt, her biggest rule was: no cartoons. At [...]
Top 5 Films Never Nominated for an Oscar

Feb 19, 2015 4

With the Academy Awards just around the corner, all of us (nominees and fans alike) can get whipped up into a froth over who should win. And while the nominees who DON’T get to pick [...]
6 Movie Duos That Totally Deserved A Spin-Off

Sep 22, 2014 3

[dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap]f you could pick two of your favorite characters from one of your favorite movies, and give them a spin-off, who would you pick? It’s a downright delicious thought, eh? Oftentimes, the best thing about [...]
The 5 Most Ridiculous “Condemned” Movies of All Time

Mar 17, 2016 3

Between 1933 to 1980, the Catholic Legion of Decency gave a “condemned” rating to a total of 148 movies. Some are hardly uprising (A Clockwork Orange wasn’t exactly family film), while others … well. See for yourself [...]

Is CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER Dated or Just Downright Creepy?

THE BOSTON STRANGLER is No Choke

Who Ya Gonna Call? GHOST WORLD!

In a World: The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

Finding Out Who’s THE MAN IN THE MOON

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Is CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER Dated or Just Downright Creepy?

THE BOSTON STRANGLER is No Choke

Who Ya Gonna Call? GHOST WORLD!

In a World: The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

Finding Out Who’s THE MAN IN THE MOON

A Very PRETTY POISON

“You’re Welcome Here Anytime” – Remembering Robert Osborne

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6 Movie Duos That Totally Deserved A Spin-Off

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