William Friedkin wasn’t always the most ethical filmmaker. For his Oscar-winning The French Connection, he didn’t have official traffic control and an unscripted collision with a stunt car occured. On the set of The Exorcist, he slapped Fr. William O’Malley, who played Fr. Joseph Dyer to make him look shaken as he delivers the lastContinue reading “‘To Live And Die In L.A.’ Was William Friedkin’s Underrated Masterpiece”
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‘Day Of The Dead’ Finally Gets Its Due
It’s a law of all franchises that usually the third movie suffers a lot with quality and even at the box office. Look at Alien 3, Terminator 3, Scream 3, Mission: Impossible 3 (just admit it compared to everything since Ghost Proctocol), and even Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome suffered a little. But that one canContinue reading “‘Day Of The Dead’ Finally Gets Its Due”
Paul Reubens Taught A Generation It Was Okay To Be A Little Different
On Sept. 5, 1991 as the MTV Video Music Awards began, no one in the audience nor at home watching was expecting to see Pee-wee Herman come out on stage to begin the show. On July 26 of that year, Pee-wee (or Paul Reubens as he was legally known) had been arrested in Florida inContinue reading “Paul Reubens Taught A Generation It Was Okay To Be A Little Different”
‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space’ At 35
With a government hearing this week where there was testimony that there are actually aliens and UFOs, it’s no better time to look at Killer Klowns From Outer Space, the cult classic horror-comedy that was released 35 years ago. It was made by the Chiodo Brothers who had been working in the movie industry sinceContinue reading “‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space’ At 35”
‘The Player’ Presents Timely Satire Amidst The WGA/SAG-AFTRA Strikes
When The Player premiered in the spring of 1992, it was the buzz of Hollywood. Featuring Tim Robbins who was a rising celebrity at the time as a Hollywood executive who is hated by anyone and everyone but they still want a moment of his time, the movie was a biting satire of Hollywood. ItContinue reading “‘The Player’ Presents Timely Satire Amidst The WGA/SAG-AFTRA Strikes”
‘Out Of Sight’ Has The Perfect Coolness For Summertime Heatwaves
George Clooney may just well be the closest thing we have that reminds us of the Golden Era of Hollywood in which leading men were bigger than life who still commanded the silver screen when they turned into silver foxes and drove everyone from 8 to 88 wild. He has the playful mixture of comedyContinue reading “‘Out Of Sight’ Has The Perfect Coolness For Summertime Heatwaves”
‘Jaws 3-D’ Is Nuts
There’s a rumor that when he was being interviewed for Jaws 3-D, Dennis Quaid, who was struggling with his cocaine addiction, responded, “I was in Jaws the what?” You can’t blame Quaid for not wanting to remember the making of this movie that almost seems like a parody of Jaws rather than a sequel. QuaidContinue reading “‘Jaws 3-D’ Is Nuts”
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Forget About ‘Jaws 2’
When Jaws was released in 1975, it changed Hollywood and the entertainment industry for the last 50 years. Many people often point to the movie as the beginning of the end of the New Hollywood era that had been rising with the end of the Hays Code. It’s ironic because Steven Spielberg was a replacementContinue reading “Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Forget About ‘Jaws 2’”
‘Up In Smoke’ Still Gives Off A Good Buzz Many Years Later
Cheech and Chong had been performing in nightclubs and releasing albums for years by the time their first feature movie Up in Smoke came out. But the question was how would audiences respond to a movie about stoners who are just looking to get high and maybe get laid. Remember this was still 1978 whenContinue reading “‘Up In Smoke’ Still Gives Off A Good Buzz Many Years Later”
‘Anaconda’ Slithers Through The Waters Of Guilty Pleasures
A movie like Anaconda should have been a disaster. It should have been the type of bad movie a studio makes that bombs so spectacularly executives who greenlit it come to work the Monday after only to find their parking spots painted over. Yet, it didn’t. For a cheesy B-movie like movie released in theContinue reading “‘Anaconda’ Slithers Through The Waters Of Guilty Pleasures”
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