Why are movies so goddam long? Comic book super hero movies are the worst. Avengers: Infinity War was 149 minutes, Captain America: Civil War was 147 minutes, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn Of Justice was 151 minutes (and should have been…
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Rebel and renaissance man Richard Grieco’s career is as confounding as it is preposterous. Starting out as a Calvin Klein model and a soap opera hunk (he played playboy Rick Gardner on One Life To Live in the late 80s),…
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How did I miss this 1973 film about a cross-dressing homicidal killer by the director of Shanty Tramp? Well for one, this Florida-made whack job of a film didn’t get much of a release. Thought to be lost, it turned…
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When we trot off to a movie are we really going for the acting? Or is it that stirring of the secret trouser snake in all of us that compels us to go? I recall sitting in a movie theater…
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My phone started ringing off the hook. “Al Adamson is dead!” Say it isn’t so. Not the infamous director of Satan’s Sadists, Blood Of Dracula’s Castle and The Naughty Stewardesses. God couldn’t be that vengeful. “And he was murdered!” You’re…
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This month there are Blu-ray releases of movies I never ever expected to have, or own, and especially in such stellar, digitally remastered condition. I wake up in the middle of the night and shake my head thinking that the…
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Finding that right actor for action film fame is a tricky business. Bruce Willis found popularity with the Die Hard franchise but then there was Hudson Hawk. Keanu Reeves struck gold with Speed but it was years before John Wick…
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Many summers ago I did something I’d always wanted to do. I made a pilgrimage to Gilmanton, New Hampshire, the final resting place of one of my favorite writers- Grace Metalious. The author of Peyton Place. Nowadays, most people barely…
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Remember when having a birthday was fun? When your parents selected a theme for your party and all your rotten little friends wore hats and had noisemakers and cheered as you blew out the candles on your cake? Well, now…
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I’m not sure which I hate more- sports, or movies about them. The formula’s always the same. From Rocky on- there’s the talented but hot-headed rookie; the grizzled but wise coach; the conflict; the come-around; and, finally, the big game.…
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