The “Royale With Cheese Movie Club” – where I finally get around to watching movies that everyone else in the world has seen – has grown to the point where I’m actually getting recommendations of films that I should add to the Club. In fact, two of my loyal blog readers – Bennett Campbell and…
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The return of Charlie Chaplin
Do me a favor.ย Go put City Lights or The Kid or The Gold Rush or Modern Times on your Neflix queue.ย Go order The Great Dictator or The Circus or Limelight from Amazon.ย To watch these Charlie Chaplin films is to watch, without argument, one of the greatest actors of early cinema.ย Chaplin’s “Tramp”…
Read More“Dot and the Kangaroo” – now I really feel old…
Back in the mid-1970’s, I remember seeing this animated children’s film, Dot and the Kangaroo, on HBO.ย Okay, let me rephrase that.ย I remember seeing this film almost every week, because I think it was one of the only G-rated films HBO was showing at the time. Background. In 1898, Australian author Ethel Pedley wrote…
Read MoreForgotten Warner Bros. cartoon characters
Everybody loves Warner Bros. cartoons. Bugs Bunny. Porky Pig. Daffy Duck. The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. We know them, we love them. But for every cartoon character Warner Bros. brought us, there were more than a few that just never worked out. These are the characters that never connected with the audience, the…
Read MoreMade in 1968 – about 2001 – recut in 2012.
If you’ve never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, you’ve missed out on one of the greatest sci-fi epics of all time. Stanley Kubrick’s futuristic vision was a watershed movie of its time, and there’s plenty of scenes in there where you have to think to yourself, “How did he film that?” or “How did his…
Read MoreWhen Disney films went off the rails
If I asked you to name, right now, snap fingers, ten Walt Disney films, I know you’d say Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.ย You’d probably also rattle off Pinocchio and Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians and The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.ย And you might even mention Mary Poppins and The…
Read More“American Graffiti” on the Royale With Cheese Movie Club
I was recently asked to speak this fall at the reunion for Albany High School’s Class of 1962.ย I’m totally honored to do so, and I think it will be a lot of fun. So in order to really sound like I know what I’m talking about when I speak at the event – and…
Read MoreDisney’s “Song of the South” on DVD?
Of all the films in the Disney vault, it’s the only major motion picture that has never been released on any legitimate home video format in the United States.ย It was Disney’s first live-action full-length picture, and it received two Academy Awards – one for Best Song, and a special award for its lead actor,…
Read MoreDefending Tom Cruise on his 50th birthday
Currently Tom Cruise is working in Iceland on a new science fiction movie; an interpretation of the graphic novel Oblivion.ย The film should hit our movie screens next year.ย Today’s also his 50th birthday, so “Happy Birthday” to him. And I’m sure that, even as a dedicated professional actor, his mind is thousands of miles…
Read More“Jason and the Argonauts” on the Royale With Cheese Movie Club
Are you serious, Chuck? You’ve NEVER seen “Jason and the Argonauts,” not once, not ever? Do you know about the skeleton fight? Do you know about the battle with the bronze giant Talos? Do you know – If I “knew” all these things, I wouldn’t need to see the film, now would I? Jason and…
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