Wait – Chuck, you’ve never seen Dirty Dancing? Really? Everyone in the whole wide world has seen this film, and you’re telling me you haven’t? What’s wrong with you? I mean, really? Trust me. Nobody puts Chucky in a corner. I can honestly say that, until last night, I never really had a chance to…
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Royale With Cheese Movie Club: “Caddyshack”
Wait – Chuck, you’ve never seen Caddyshack? The greatest golf comedy movie of all time? Good God, how could you have never seen Caddyshack? You gotta have at least seen that scene with a Baby Ruth bar in the swimming pool – No. no. Don’t tell me. Even though this film is over 30 years…
Read More“We’re gonna stay here until we get it right! Take 2,900… and… ACTION!!”
You’ve heard the jokes, haven’t you? About the motion picture director that took take after take after TAKE of a specific scene. Charlie Chaplin, for example, was known to take over 300 shots of a single scene in City Lights just to make sure his co-star Virginia Cherrill was holding a rose at the proper…
Read MoreHow to tell if you’re watching the Academy Awards or the Daytona 500
So this is going to be a big, big night – depending on whether you’re ready to watch the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing’s marquee event, the Daytona 500, or whether you’re ready to watch the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ marquee event, the Academy Awards. Depending on your loyalties, both…
Read MoreForget Team Edward and Team Jacob… Howzabout joining Team Abe?
Apparently there’s this new subgenre of fiction, in which popular literary classics and historic figures are getting re-told as tales of the supernatural. There’s the best-selling book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and then there’s an action comedy film debuting later this year called Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. But the one that really interests…
Read MoreThe new “Three Stooges” movie – trainwreck or tribute?
I don’t care if you don’t like the Three Stooges. I have been a fan of the Three Stooges since for over 40 years of my life. The first time I actually saw Stooges episodes, they aired on WTEN at about 7 in the morning as part of a Popeye and the Three Stooges television…
Read MoreWhy I don’t care that Demi Moore filed for divorce from Ashton Kutcher today
First of all, I haven’t really cared about the acting careers of either Demi Moore or Ashton Kutcher for maybe a decade or two. Their names come up when I play team trivia – usually the question is, “How much older is Demi Moore than Ashton Kutcher?” and the answer is 15 years. Whoop dee…
Read MoreRoyale With Cheese Movie Club: “The Shawshank Redemption”
Wait – Chuck, you’ve never seen The Shawshank Redemption? With Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman? Good God, how could you have never seen The Shawshank Redemption? Did you know that there’s a big deal about a Rita Hayworth poster – No. no. Don’t tell me. I know that this film is putt’near 20 years old,…
Read MoreReplacing the Replacements
It’s going to be a good night tonight. I’m watching one of my favorite films, Time After Time. However, it wasn’t until a couple of days ago, that I could have actually seen the film. And therein lies a cautionary tale. When it comes to lending anybody anything from my personal collection, I follow one…
Read MoreThe “Royale With Cheese” Movie Club: “The Sixth Sense”
Wait – Chuck, you’ve never seen The Sixth Sense? With Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment? How could you have never seen The Sixth Sense? Did you know that there’s a twist in the end of the film, where – No. no. Don’t tell me. I know this film’s been around for over a decade,…
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