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”
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‘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”
Fran Drescher Is Not One To Underestimate
Granted, Fran Drescher before this month was mostly remember for his TV show The Nanny. The 1990s shows was so much of a sitcom it could easily pass as a parody of 1990s sitcoms. Drescher plays Fran Fine, a very Jewish woman from Queens selling cosmetics door-to-door after being dumped by her boyfriend. She attractsContinue reading “Fran Drescher Is Not One To Underestimate”
‘Plane’ Goes In Many Directions Yet Never Really Takes Off
Gerard Butler’s career has been mostly playing the brutish types who don’t take shit off anyone. It seems ever since 300, he’s become the younger Scottish version of Liam Neeson. While he’s appeared in comedies, dramas and even as the doomed Erik in The Phantom of the Opera, he’s mainly an action star. Some haveContinue reading “‘Plane’ Goes In Many Directions Yet Never Really Takes Off”
How Hollywood Shutting Down Could Cause Some Major Changes For All
When I was working in Wagoner, Okla. at the Tribune, the company (which was owned by one of the Walton kids, nonetheless) got the idea we were going to be offering pictures online to be sold. It was a great idea that came with one flaw – we had to upload them ourselves. This addedContinue reading “How Hollywood Shutting Down Could Cause Some Major Changes For All”
‘Evil Dead Rise’ Doesn’t Shine
For some reason, Hollywood keeps making the same damned movies over and over expecting the same outcome. A movie like Evil Dead Rise has no purpose whatsoever. If you want to watch a good Evil Dead movie, I recommend the first three that Sam Raimi made. Not only did the Raimi who was in herContinue reading “‘Evil Dead Rise’ Doesn’t Shine”
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”
‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Presents An Epic Ballet Of Absurdity And Violence
I hadn’t heard of Sam Peckinpah in 1988 when I saw Extreme Prejudice on HBO one night. I wasn’t even 10 and I remembered the climax as Nick Nolte as a Texas Ranger gets into a shoot-out with his old friend played by Powers Boothe who is now a drug kingpin south of the border.Continue reading “‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Presents An Epic Ballet Of Absurdity And Violence”
‘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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