Tag: movies
member name: Nick Howes
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January 01, 2009 11:10 AM EST --
IRON EYES: MY LIFE AS A HOLLYWOOD INDIAN, Iron Eyes Cody, 1982, 290 pp hardcover, Random House
One of the more enjoyable Hollywood biographies I've read in many a day as told by Iron Eyes Cody. . . .
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February 26, 2008 09:50 AM EST --
Heath Ledger , 28. Star of numerous films including Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm (2005) and as the Joker in the upcoming Batman movie, The Dark Knight . January 22, 2008 of apparent overdose. . . .
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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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January 12, 2009 10:17 AM EST --
SILVER SCREAM, David J. Schow, ed., 1988, Tor Books, 500 pp.
The common theme in this anthology is the movies. The settings range from Hollywood backlot to broken down movie theaters and drive-ins . . .
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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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December 10, 2008 08:13 AM EST --
Starring Brendan Fraser, this is the latest in a series of movies and telefilms based on Jules Vern's famous novel of subterranean adventure.
The fast and fun storyline bypasses the unending claustrophobic . . .
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June 08, 2008 09:02 AM EDT --
House of Dracula (1945) was one of the last of the Universal movies using the studio's classic cast of scary creatures. The idea was to wring a few more bucks with what they billed as a Monster . . .
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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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April 11, 2008 08:47 AM EDT --
You know what the movies say, as did the books before them. The armored knight's horse was his transportation into battle, a heavy draft horse capable of carrying the armored knight.
Not quite. . . .
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November 12, 2008 08:42 AM EST --
Ever wonder where the "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" monkeys come from? It's from a sculpture in the small Japanese town of Nikko. The name was used for the leader of the Wicked . . .
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December 24, 2008 08:45 AM EST --
Now well over 90 years old, Ernest Borgnine is known to different generations for his role as the villain in From Here to Eternity , as Commander Quinton McHale from McHale's Navy , and as a voice . . .
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March 05, 2008 03:03 PM EST --
With Daylight Savings Time set to kick in Sunday, March 9th, its time to consider some of the best time travel movies for an appropriate Sunday marathon screening complete with popcorn and soda. . . .
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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 12, 2008 12:36 PM EST --
The founder and editor of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" died December 8, 2008 of a heart attack following a long illness.
Forest J. Ackerman, 92, considered the greatest of all science fiction . . .
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January 13, 2009 01:02 PM EST --
An exciting Lost World adventure in which a small expedition discovers the fabled graveyard of the whales and a surviving colony of Vikings on a nearly inaccessible island in northern Canada.
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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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June 04, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
An American icon, the Statue of Liberty has appeared in countless movies. It provides the classic greeting for passengers making landfall in the United States for the first time, it's been buzzed . . .
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