Every year around this time, the National Film Registry announces 25 films selected for preservation and conservation. The program, which began in 1988, looks to save our motion picture history, and films from the silent era to modern times (including Modern Times) are designated for preservation in the Library of Congress. Among the 25 films…
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Bilbo … Bilbo Baggins, cheapest little Hobbit of them all…
If I asked you about your favorite film adaptation of any of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works, I’m sure most of you would say, “Chuck, go get a Blu-Ray of the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy,” and your argument would be valid. Now if you want to take this into a deep cut, you could…
Read MoreCould “The Gutter” be the raunchiest bowling movie of all time? You tell me.
There might be maybe three movies that feature the sport of bowling as a central plot line. And depending on your personal feelings about the sport, they’re either the best bowling movies ever … or an affront to the very sport. Of course, you must start off with the classic The Big Lebowski and all…
Read MoreGodzilla Minus One on the Royale With Cheese Movie Club
This is kind of a variation on the Royale With Cheese Movie Club, the blog category where I review movies that everybody else has seen – except me. The category title comes from my FINALLY seeing Pulp Fiction 20 years after everyone else saw it. But this time, the only reason I didn’t see this…
Read MoreUp in the sky … it’s a restored Superman!
In 1941, Fleischer Studios – the animation studio who brought Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor to movie screens – released the first animated episodes of the Adventures of Superman. The series, which ran for two year and seventeen episodes, were visually brilliant, with major flourishes of art deco and noir stylings, plenty of two-fisted…
Read MoreMan with no legs battles man with no arms!
Who doesn’t love a good kung fu movie?โThe action, the drama, the sound effects, the excitement … But there are times when it seems as if kung fu movies are repetitive.โThe same plotline.โThe same action sequences. Which brings me to this film from 1979.โIn America, the film was released as The Crippled Masters, and it…
Read MoreThe secret “Steamboat Willie” story you didn’t know
By now, you must have heard that this little film has entered the public domain.โThat’s right, this Mickey Mouse film Steamboat Willie, is now available for anyone to use as they see fit. This one, in case you haven’t really sat through it. But here’s the big secret.โWhy is it called “Steamboat Willie?”โWho’s Willie?โIs Mickey…
Read MoreLady Ballers is the worst sports movie ever. Heck, it’s the worst MOVIE ever.
Many years ago, there was a Hollywood film called Juwanna Mann, a comedy about an NBA washout who tries to rejuvenate his career by dressing in women’s clothes sand joining the WNBA.โIt was about as funny as a fart in church. I wrote about Juwanna Mann last year as part of a larger blog piece…
Read MoreThere’s a new Mad Max film in 2024? Seriously???
Long-time readers of this blog will remember that when the last film in the Mad Max series, Mad Max: Fury Road, hit the theaters in 2015, I was completely stoked. I wanted another adventure of the cop-turned-vigilante Max Rockastansky. I wanted car crashes and action scenes that just screamed big-screen entertainment. And I had waited…
Read MoreShould I even bother getting my hopes up for this new Fantastic Four movie?
This is a tough call. A really tough call. And personally, I want this to work. But I’ve been burned before. I was burned in 2005, when the first big-budget Fantastic Four movie hit theaters. This was going to be the big one. This was going to take the greatest superhero family from the comic…
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