With Machete arriving in theaters this weekend, Jeff Johnson has his mind on sweet revenge — of the cinematic variety.
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With Piranha 3D in theaters now, I thought it might be fun to revisit an old favorite from 1978. Movies like Piranha happened in the good old days of drive-in…
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Two men, forced to work together, learning to respect each other along the way. Sometimes one is a loose cannon, sometimes they’re from different cultures, sometimes from opposite sides of…
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I’m a little late jumping on the 50th anniversary of the release of Psycho (which opened June 16th 1960), but I had the opportunity recently to attend a special event…
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Dinner for Schmucks isn’t just Steve Carell and Paul Rudd’s latest collaboration — it’s also the most recent in a long list of American remakes of French films.
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Christopher Nolan’s latest movie has Jeff Johnson thinking…about movies that make you think.
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With Robert Rodriguez’s Predator reboot just around the corner, Jeff Johnson looks back at the testosterone-fueled action orgy that started it all.
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Thirty years ago, Airplane! arrived in theaters, changing spoof comedy, Turkish prisons, and jive-talking old ladies forever.
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Jeff Johnson looks back on the big-ass shark that changed summer movies forever 35 years ago this month.
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Filmgoers love to complain about everything we have to sit through before the main attraction, but there’s nothing like a great teaser trailer.
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Jeff Johnson misses the days when pop culture could really surprise us — but hey, that new J.J. Abrams trailer is pretty cool, isn’t it?
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In this week’s Revival House, Jeff Johnson throws a 30th birthday party for The Empire Strikes Back.
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With Iron Man 2 on its way to theaters, Jeff Johnson takes a look at some great comic-to-film adaptations.
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With the new Nightmare on Elm Street just around the corner, Jeff Johnson takes a fearful look back at the previous entries in the franchise.
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Nearly 30 years ago, Sam Raimi redefined low-budget horror. This week, Jeff Johnson raises his boomstick in tribute.
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Kick-Ass is taking all kinds of heat for the violence and profanity of ChloÁ« Moretz’s Hit Girl, but her character is part of a long, foul-mouthed tradition.
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Just in time for this week’s Clash of the Titans remake, Jeff Johnson looks back on ten of the most magical moments from special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen.
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Jeff Johnson looks back at the 1976 comedy-thriller Silver Streak, the beginning of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor’s classic cinematic bromance.
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With Tron Legacy on the horizon, Jeff Johnson looks back on the cult classic 1982 original.
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King Kong, from King Kong (1933). In terms of special effects, the big ape in Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake might look better, but it’s hard to top the badassity of…
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From Lon Chaney to Benicio del Toro, werewolves have been a Hollywood tradition for decades — something Jeff Johnson reminds us of with this week’s lycanthropic Revival House.
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Sunday’s big game has Jeff Johnson thinking about an underappreciated mid-’70s thriller from John Frankenheimer and Thomas “Hannibal” Harris.
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With The Book of Eli currently in theaters, film critic Roger Ebert tweeted on January 17 that “No non-apocalyptic future is listed by Wikipedia.” We’re still waiting to see what…
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This week’s Revival House is going to be a little different; in the TV world it would be called a “very special episode.” I was thinking how funny it is…
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Everybody can use a good chuckle now and then, but the feeling one gets from uncontrollable laughter is hard to beat. I’m talking about the kind of laughter that makes…
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Continuing with my current obsession with a film’s opening moments, here are nine opening scenes that stand out in my mind. It can be a pre-credit sequence, the first scene…
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I was originally going to follow last week’s column with something else entirely, but I got so much great feedback that I thought I’d follow up with ten more cool…
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Something you don’t see much these days: taking a few minutes of screen time to set the mood for the film you’re about to see. The main title sequence is…
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I was ten years old when my parents took me to see The Return of the Pink Panther in 1975. At the time, the only Pink Panther I was acquainted…
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In space, no one can hear you scream — unless you’re Bill Shatner yelling at Ricardo Montalban, in which case it’ll just keep on echoing forever.