Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
“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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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Although it occasionally delved into social and political commentary à la Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, Joseph Stefano’s seminal...
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Don’t let the title of The Twilight Zone episode It’s a Good Life (originally broadcast on Nov. 3, 1961) fool you. This has no resemblance...
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Alfred Hitchcock directed several episodes of his two anthology television shows Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, but,...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Producer/director Dan Curtis and writer Richard Matheson hit pay dirt in 1972 when their made-for-TV production of The Night Stalker became a ratings...
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The X-Files produced some scary as hell episodes, but it’s safe to say the single most terrifying episode was Home (originally broadcast on Oct....
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Epitaph One (never broadcast in this country, but aired on June 17, 2009 in Singapore) was officially the thirteenth episode of Joss Whedon’s...
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