You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger–but should you invite him into your home theater? Bob Cashill advises.
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This week, Kelly Stitzel discusses the extremely radio-friendly crop of Best Original Song nominees for the 57th Academy Awards.
Popdose.com places bets on who will win the 2010 Oscar for best score.
Popdose spoke with Michael Matessino regarding his work with legendary director Robert Wise on the “Director’s Edition” DVD of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Taxi Driver turns 35 and Jeff Johnson looks back on a seminal work of ’70s cinema.
The Popdose Staff, along with noted film preservationist Michael Matessino, discuss the remarkable career of John Williams.
Bob Cashill asks if it’s possible to feel bad about a movie that earns an Academy Award nomination. Yes, says sorrowful Way Back star Ed Harris.
Scott Malchus falls in love with Los Angeles and Steve Martin’s “L.A. Story”
Kelly Stitzel brings back her special series taking a look at past Best Original Song Oscar nominees. This week, she discusses the nominees from the 46th Academy Awards.
With the release of the James Cameron-produced Sanctum looming, Popdose takes a look at other waterlogged big-screen terrors.
Given that as I write this, the forecast for the week is a steady snow starting on Tuesday and tapering off sometime in 2013, I have decided to spend the…
As Turner Classic Movies begins it’s 31 Days salute to the Oscars, Scott Malchus interviews the face of the network, Robert Osborne.
Scott Malchus looks back again (and again) at the Bill Murray classic Groundhog Day.
Communists! Nazis! Old people! They all star in this week’s Box Office Flashback to January 28, 1982.
Kelly Stitzel discusses the films screening at this year’s Sundance Film Festival that she’s most looking forward to seeing.
With the remake of The Mechanic hitting theaters, Jeff Johnson checks out the original 1972 original Charles Bronson film.
What is a “universal,” why do they make fascinating storylines, and why do their makers understand them so poorly? Popdose.com asks the questions.
Take trip back to the silent film era as Scott Malchus discusses King Vidor’s 1925 blockbuster in this week’s Basement Songs.
Kelly Stitzel takes a look at Don Letts’s excellent 2005 documentary, Punk: Attitude, recently rereleased on DVD.
Scott Malchus sets his sights on this John Sayles modern western in this week’s Basement Songs.
Kelly Stitzel discusses the 1988 Mike Nichols hit, Working Girl and its Carly Simon-penned theme song, much to the delight of Jeff Giles and Jason Hare.
Bob Cashill counts ’em down. “I better be on there, buster,” growls The Fighter himself, Mark Wahlberg.
Bob Cashill discusses the state of the market, and ticks off a few top releases, but mostly just spotlights this pic from The Green Slime (Warner Archive).
Popdose.com’s Dw. Dunphy wonders aloud why Jennifer Aniston does so many rom-coms, and arrives at a WOPR of an answer.
A new horror film serves up blood and guts…and food for thought.
Scott Malchus opens the basement door to his new series and discusses the 1988 noir thriller, “Tequila Sunrise.”
Popdose.com takes a look at what another website feels will be the biggest hits of 2011. Do you think we disagreed?
The Popdose staff gathers to pay tribute to one of Hollywood’s most prolific — and highly respected — character actors.
Just how depressing are the “holiday movies” that have lingered into the new year? Film Editor Bob Cashill tests for gloom as the star of Blue Valentine and All Good Things, Ryan Gosling, anxiously awaits results.
Last year I began to reevaluate my life (that happens when you turn 40) and the pursuit of the dream I had as a boy. What was it about those movies that captured my heart? Was it the movies themselves? Was it the people I was with? Was it some thematic element that I associated with? More importantly, could I ever go back to that place again?
