Jeff Johnson sorts out the contenders and makes his picks for this year’s Oscar winners. Who do you think will win?
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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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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.
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Featuring Richard Dreyfuss, a massive spacecraft, and five of the most iconic notes in movie-music history, Close Encounters of the Third Kind is one of Jeff Johnson’s all-time favorites.
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Sequels: Hollywood loves ’em, but they don’t always plan for ’em. Jeff Johnson looks back at nine of the worst sequel-inspired plot and character abuses.
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Let me begin by stating that 1988’sÁ‚ Die Hard was my choice for Best Picture that year (with all due apologies to Rain Man Á¢€” a great film, but not as…
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One of the things I really enjoy about watching my favorite films over and over again is that I’m always noticing things I hadn’t noticed before, especially as my own…
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Computer-generated animation sure has come a long way in the last few decades — and Jeff Johnson is here to take us almost all the way back to the beginning, with a look at 1984’s The Last Starfighter.
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Jeff Johnson has returned for another spectacular edition of Revival House, and this time, he’s pointing you in the direction of some terrific bonus material you’ve probably never even accessed.
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Welcome back to Revival House, where Jeff Johnson has dimmed the lights, cued the chilling music, and is waiting to take us back to Halloween night, 1978.
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Remakes are all the rage in Hollywood these days, and “rage” is the popular filmgoer response to most of them — but as Jeff Johnson points out in his latest Revival House, a remake isn’t always a bad thing.
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For this week’s Revival House, Jeff Johnson takes us all the way back to 1983, when a modem was the height of home-computer awesomeness and Matthew Broderick almost started World War III.
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If you’re like me, when you see a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger in shades, a certain five-note rhythm comes to mind. There’s no denying composer Brad Fiedel kicks things off…
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Jeff Johnson is back to collect your tickets for another week of Revival House, and a discussion of nine great films you’ve probably never seen.
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The first thing you need to know about me is that I like to watch movies multiple times. Given the choice between watching something again or watching something I’ve never…
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Hiya, kids! This week’s mix is brought to you by Jeff Johnson, who’s been a friend of mine since high school. Ever since I’ve known…
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