Tag: movie
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March 11, 2008 09:02 AM EDT --
Harvey (1950). The delightful Jimmy Stewart vehicle about Elwood P. Dowd, a pleasant man who goes everywhere accompanied by his invisible six-foot rabbit, a pooka named Harvey. A staple . . .
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June 03, 2008 09:20 AM EDT --
One reason silent screen actor Lon Chaney was so successful was because both his parents were unable to hear or speak, his upbringing enhancing the communications talents he'd call on for Phantom . . .
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June 03, 2008 09:15 AM EDT --
Fresh on the bookshelves are a series of ten Indiana Jones books, first issued in the mid 1990's, cashing in on the release of the new Indiana Jones movie. Here's a quick look of five of . . .
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June 12, 2008 01:07 PM EDT --
Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a little-noted 1964 movie about a stranded astronaut surviving in the deserts of Mars. Commander Kit Draper (Paul Mantee) finds himself alone after he has to bail out . . .
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June 12, 2008 01:41 PM EDT --
A movie my girlfriend dragged me to, now I own it on DVD.
Garth (Michael Caine) and Hub (Robert Duvall) are two elderly brothers whose ne'er-do-well niece visits to deposit her young son, Walter (Haley . . .
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June 13, 2008 11:41 AM EDT --
Jim Henson's Labyrinth , written by ex-Monty Python Terry Gilliam, mixes then-teen actress Jennifer Connelly, rocker David Bowie, and a large variety of unique Muppet characters. . . .
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August 12, 2008 09:40 AM EDT --
CBS Video has come out with Volume One of the short-lived 1985 Twilight Zone Revival, with the theme music tweaked by the Grateful Dead, and Harlan Ellison as creative consultant.
The stories are all . . .
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March 22, 2009 10:02 AM EDT --
THE CRAWLING EYE, Forrest Tucker, Janet Munro, Laurence Payne, 1958, black and white, 84 minutes. $14.99.
I have a soft spot for this 1958 movie which I only first saw a few years ago.
This Jimmy . . .
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June 11, 2008 01:50 PM EDT --
You'll love this movie. In fact, this 2002 movie has the sort of bizarre appeal that should've made it more popular.
In this over-the-top, low-budget horror-drama, Elvis takes . . .
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March 20, 2009 10:31 AM EDT --
Eight-Legged Freaks, David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Doug E. Doug, 2002, 99 minutes
If you want to see giant killer spiders, skip the SciFi Channel, skip all the other spider movies, and check this . . .
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April 01, 2009 01:02 PM EDT --
Introduced in two spectacularly successful TV movies, seedy, persistent, abrasive reporter Carl Kolchak was awarded his own brief hour-long 1974-1975 series. It remains a cult classic.
"Kolchak: . . .
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June 09, 2008 10:31 AM EDT --
Roxanne (1987) is a wonderful remake of Jose Ferrer's swashbuckling Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), a story of a tragic romantic triangle reinterpreted as a romantic comedy. Steve Martin, who wrote . . .
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December 11, 2008 12:21 PM EST --
The story of a gunrunner played by Nicholas Cage, starting with his first deal and working up to his present-day multi-national trade which rakes in millions for him, even as it destroys his family. A . . .
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December 24, 2008 08:36 AM EST --
In his recent autobiography, "Ernie", Ernest Borgnine reveals that his friend George Lindsay, Goober on The Andy Griffith Show , turned down the part of Mr. Spock on TV's Star Trek. Lindsay, . . .
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April 09, 2009 08:51 AM EDT --
KING ARTHUR, Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffud, 139 minutes
I can't believe this movie wasn't better received than it was. There was a strong heroic figure of Clive . . .
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April 28, 2009 12:49 PM EDT --
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts
THE TRUE STORY OF CHARLIES WILSON'S WAR, History Channel
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, George Crile, Grove Press, trade paperback, 550 pp, . . .
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June 08, 2008 09:41 AM EDT --
Warm up the DVD player for the 4th of July holiday Revolutionary War Marathon. Aside from numerous nonfiction documentaries on the History Channel and other cable channels, there are also TV movies and . . .
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April 05, 2009 09:32 AM EDT --
THERE ARE WORSE THINGS I COULD DO, Adrienne Barbeau, trade paperback, 2006, 345pp, $15.95
The star of TV's "All in the Family" spin-off, "Maude," of The Fog, Escape . . .
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June 13, 2008 11:56 AM EDT --
Sony has out a four-in-one package featuring the Dean Martin/Matt Helm spy comedies on two DVDs. It's titled the Matt Helm Lounge.
The set includes The Silencers with Stella Stevens . . .
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June 12, 2008 12:50 PM EDT --
If I see another dreamcatcher, I'm going to kvork.
However, Dreamcatcher, the movie, is a whole different issue.
Dreamcatcher was the first novel Stephen King worked on after he was struck on . . .
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