Friday, November 20th, 2009
With the collapse of the studio system, the death of the censorship code and the advent of color television, Hollywood went through a lot of odd...
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Political correctness is to comedy what Kryptonite is to Superman. Nothing buzzkills a laugh more than someone (usually a white liberal) insisting...
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
It was with great sadness that it was learned that British actor Edward Woodward passed away yesterday at age 79. For cinemaphiles, Woodward will be...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
When Jeremy Brett made his debut as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal detective Sherlock Holmes in Granada Television’s The Adventures of...
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It’s a pity MTV’s computer animated Spider-Man series isn’t better known because, all in all, it was by far the best rendition of...
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Unlike other anthology shows, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits almost never did comedies. The one exception...
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Howard Hawks’ classic western Rio Bravo (1959), starring John Wayne and Dean Martin, has been remade many times. Hawks redid it himself seven...
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After serving an apprenticeship with the Coen Brothers as their cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld went on to direct some very quirky and off-beat...
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For those unfamiliar with the term, a “shaggy dog story” is a joke with an elaborate set-up and a non-sequester punch line that, more...
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“There is nothing funny about a clown at midnight” -- Lon Chaney, Sr. Good ol’ Lon knew exactly what he was talking...
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