Monday, April 26, 2021

Peter Falk Channels Bogie in Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective

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A befuddled Lou Peckinpah. Following the success of his romantic comedy The Goodbye Girl (1977), Neil Simon returned to the zany spoof formu...
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Monday, April 19, 2021

Five Easy Pieces: When Good Performances Aren't Enough

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Jack Nicholson as Bobby Dupea. The years have not been kind to Five Easy Pieces  (1970), which earned four major Oscar nominations and w...
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Sunday, April 18, 2021

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Burt Lancaster Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a film that starred Burt Lancaster and ask you to name the actual fil...
Monday, April 12, 2021

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Olivia de Havilland Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a film that starred Olivia de Havilland and ask you to name the actua...
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Monday, April 5, 2021

Hoosiers: A Tale of Inspiration and Second Chances

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Gene Hackman as Coach Norman. Second chances, the popularity of small town sports, and teamwork are the themes that underlie Hoosiers , a su...
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Monday, March 22, 2021

Seven Things to Know About Julie Newmar

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1. Born as Julia Chalene Newmeyer in 1933, she was billed as Julie Newmeyer in her first major screen role in Seven Brides for Seven Brother...
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Monday, March 15, 2021

Lemmon and Ford: Life as a Cowboy Through the Eyes of a Tenderfoot

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Jack Lemmon and Glenn Ford. The incredibly versatile Delmer Daves directed three of my favorite Westerns from the 1950s, a decade in whi...
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Monday, March 8, 2021

Rodgers & Hammerstein Films: Ranked Best to Worst

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Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner. 1. The King and I   (1956) - Yul Brynner's Oscar-winning per-formance as King Mongkut of Siam anchors this...
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Monday, March 1, 2021

Ray Harryhausen's Valley of Gwangi

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Gwangi: The star of the movie! Made in 1969, The Valley of Gwangi  is one of those movies that seems to improve with age. Its far-out “c...
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Monday, February 22, 2021

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Bogie Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a Humphrey Bogart film and ask you to name the actual film. Most of t...
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Monday, February 15, 2021

Seven Things to Know About William Hopper

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1. William Hopper auditioned for the TV series  Perry Mason --for the role of Perry! You can view his screen test opposite Ray Collins as L...
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Monday, February 8, 2021

How the West Was Won

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James Stewart and Carroll Baker. The words “epic” and “”sprawling” are typically used to describe MGM’s 164-minute, 1962 all-star Western. A...
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Monday, February 1, 2021

Third Man on the Mountain

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James MacArthur as Rudi. I'm hoping that Disney+ will eventually provide an outlet for some of the studio's lesser-known live ac...
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Monday, January 25, 2021

The Five Best Inspirational Sports Movies

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As you peruse our list, note that these are our picks for the five best inspirational sports movies. There are many other fine movies about ...
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Monday, January 18, 2021

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Movie of the Week Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a film that aired on the ABC Movie of the Week and ask you to name th...
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Monday, January 11, 2021

Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version

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Michael Redgrave as Crocker-Harris. After 18 years at a prestigious English boys' school, Andrew Crocker-Harris has accepted a less-...
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Monday, January 4, 2021

The Five Best Episodes of "Banacek"

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Banacek with his trademark cigar. George Peppard starred as free-lance, Boston-based insurance investigator Thomas Banacek in a pilot movie ...
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