1968 was a momentous year for the nation, the city of Memphis, and Stax Records
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Sully and Snowden fail at life. Plus, news from the NY Film Festival.
Would nicknaming a cop “Dirty” be considered a term of endearment?
Thanks to my budding thespian daughter, I wound up watching the entire Tony Awards last night. Given that I can’t recall the last time I watched an entire anything, this…
A lot can happen from the time a script is turned in to a studio to the time the film actually goes into production. Actors are cast and then recast,…
The Clint Eastwood 40-Film Collection would seem to have just about anything a fan of Clint would need.
The other day on the Popdose email thread, as one is wont to do, we started spouting off old cop movie cliches for some reason—”I don’t play by the rules!”…
Most movie series don’t make it to five films. Either the filmmakers run out of ideas, or the studio reboots the characters. The latest “fifth-quel” is Scary Movie 5, which, since…
Recalling the phenomenon of the last episode of M*A*S*H
To this day, “Unforgiven” remains a powerful statement about the nature of violence and its effect on a man’s soul.
Dw. Dunphy: So, did Leo go the Robert DeNiro route or the Eddie Murphy route (Twinkies v prosthetics)? Kelly Stitzel: I’m not much of a DiCaprio fan and I haven’t…
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Warner Bros., 1976) Clint Eastwood and the Old West go together like Adam Sandler and dick jokes, so if you aren’t a film buff or a…
Axel Foley, the Terminator, Supergirl, Mozart, and God all make appearances in this week’s Box Office Flashback to December 10, 1984.
I have a Clint Eastwood problem. But a new mega-set of his movies, Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros., obliges me to take the long view. This…
Deep in the scrotum-shriveling dead of winter, Pete Chianca resurfaces with a list of some chilly cinematic suggestions.
Gran Torino (2009, Warner Bros.) purchase from Amazon: DVD | Blu-ray I enjoy a nice Unforgiven viewing as much as the next guy, but I’ve never really bought into the…
Last week I began a three-part series about the three biggest movie taboos, at least in American cinema — the things we seem to often have both a disdain for…
I have to admit, I’ve always been more a fan of B-movie living legend Bruce Campbell‘s personality than I have any of his films. Like most celebrities, there are conflicting…
Clint Eastwood is having the last sneer on the Oscars. As three of the five best picture nominees struggle for a box office bounce (and one, The Reader, has become…
Gran Torino finally opened to wide release this weekend, and rapidly earned the number one spot at the box office. It deserves every single dollar it’s made. Many have been…