WATCH NOW If Walt Disney‘s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” had been primarily about Snow White, it might have been forgotten soon after its 1937 premiere, and treasured today only for historical reasons, as the first full-length animated feature in color. Snow White is, truth to tell, a bit of a bore, not a […]
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I can’t say I am big fan of vampire movies. Do I really have to explain myself? You can only approach a vampire story in so many ways, right? With how vampires are made to be ‘overly dramatic beings’ nowadays, its pretty safe to say I am not intrigued enough to want to watch another
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WATCH NOW When someone sets fire to John’s car, he is left with nothing and must return home to his parents’ house. While they welcome him in for the holidays, they are apprehensive about him staying any longer and require that, in order to stay, he must pay rent. His parents help him get a
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WATCH NOW From Ben Stiller’s exaggerated gesturing of romantic reluctance at the very beginning, which has Walter Mitty behaving like J Alfred Prufrock on eHarmony.com to his co-star Adam Scott’s faux beard that has been manicured and reminiscent of yesteryears printing magazines and magazines, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” With a screenplay by Steve
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WATCH NOW I’ve discovered, over the last ten years, that I enjoy period pieces, especially in the horror genre. If you offer me a movie related to war that includes some form of supernatural activity, I will enjoy it. Overlord was a pretty good example of that, though it’s plot left a bit lacking for
WATCH NOW Because of how cliche Christmas at the Ranch is, I began thinking about the genre of Christmas romances as a whole. Specifically, I question whether Christmas romances count as an exploitation subgenre. Christmasploitation. Obviously, if your definition of exploitation requires mature content, they do not. But there are elements of Christmas romances that
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WATCH NOW The Dick Tracy comic strip had an element of inbreeding as if its characters were exposed to the same cosmic radiation and placed in an amalgamation of dysfunctional criminal lunatics. After I stopped appreciating cartoon pandas in comic books, the first strip I read was Dick Tracy. What I remember vividly are the
WATCH NOW Just like the creators of “Return to the Blue Lagoon,” during the movie’s production, these film-makers followed a well understood process entailed great intricacies. In the very first film made in 1980, there was a boy and girl who were “castaways” on an island that was lost. Their parents had built a cottage
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WATCH NOW “Only You,” Directed by Norman Jewison is the exact kind of romance that we would barely be able to find today in Hollywood. It makes no sense at all, and is set in the gorgeous Italian regions of Venice and Positano. The story is light and true fantasy, and filled with amazing scenery,
WATCH NOW Now, in Missed Connections, a column I write weekly focused on unfairly maligned films or those that are little-known, let’s talk about Ladyhawke. In the past columns, I wrote about movies that deserve more appreciation when the memories of such films fade from history. I also wish to talk about a movie that
