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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018
I took the family to see The Greatest Showman over New Year's weekend. To start off with, we all enjoyed the film very much. This is the story, fairly well fictionalized (Barnum was not orphaned, whereas is partner, Baily, was orphaned), done for artistic reasons, of P. T. Barnum and ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Okay, I admit it. I don't have a lot of patience for nutters who live in their parents basements blaming mankind for all that is bad in the world and wanting a utopia, then go into suicidal depression when they realize that fantasy utopias like we see in the ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
I'm doing a panel at an upcoming convention on non-SF/F/H genre movies that fans should see. This panel was a big success at Convergence last year, so now I'm taking it on the road. I have also added a fw new films to the list.
Here is the new updated list:
To ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
Reuters is carrying a piece about a new movie on Che that was screened in Cuba. It purports to be an accurate portrayal of the murderer of thousands of Cubans, including kids as young as 15 years of age who were executed under Che's orders.
The question is, is it really ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I am doing a panel at Convergence on what Non-Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror films people should see. It's a long list, about 80 films, and thought I would share it here as well.
To Have or Have Not(1944)
Casablanca(1942)
The Big Sleep(1945)
The Maltese Falcon(1941)
We’re No Angels(1955)
The Petrified Forest(1936)
The African Queen (1951)
The Searchers(1956)
Stagecoach(1939)
The Man Who Shot ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
It's becoming more difficult every day to take Hollywood seriously (Sorry John!). The reason is they simply don't get it when it comes to war, politics and, yes, global warming. This has been made very clear when it comes to the war in Iraq in a piece posted on BreitBart.
Hollywood ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
Hollywood, and this time Paramount Pictures in particular, has veered far-left yet again. They are changing an all-American icon of heroism into a globalized entity for the sake of political correctness and "International appeal." What are we talking about? G.I. Joe is being transformed from "Government Issue Joe" into "Global ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
The Scotsman has a piece on Ridley Scott ranting about how technology is killing big-screen cinema.
THE Hollywood director, Ridley Scott, warned yesterday that new technology is killing off the big-screen experience. The Oscar-winning County Durham-born movie mogul said mobile phones and computers threatened movie-making on an epic scale.
Is Scott ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Chickendove filmmaker Brian de Palma has shocked Venice audiences with his latest attack on the military, Redacted. Instead of making a film about the heroism of the men and women who have served our country honorably and well (unlike de Palma), de Palma instead chose as his subject matter a ...
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Monday, May 1st, 2006
There is a new movie opening soon, and it has been labeled "soft eco-terrorism," whatever that emans.
CNS has this report on the film:
The movie, "Hoot," opens Friday May 5. It features environmentally conscious teenage characters vandalizing heavy machinery by stealing parts off of them and flattening tires in order ...
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004
Over on SciFi Wire, there is a report that UPN has cut back this seasons order from 26 episodes to 24.
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Friday, July 30th, 2004
Ran across a site that has a posting to an awesome memorabalia auction. Check out the first page of stuff and flip through from there. The auction contains all kinds of goodies from Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Terminator; appliances, props, scripts, costumes, and so on. ...
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2004
Over on StarLog.com, there is an article about Universal Studios is up on the block.
Universal Studios created the monster movie, with Bela Lugosi as Dracula, and made stars of Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and many others. Hopefully the sale will help get this legendary studio back on its feet.
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Thursday, July 17th, 2003
SciFi Wire Emmy nominations have been announced, with Frank Herbert's Children of Dune and Enterprise, as well as other good genre series, up for several awards.
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