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The Awful Truth
Other than Film Noir, Screwball Comedy is perhaps the most revered form of film made during Hollywood’s golden era. Director Leo McCarey’s 1937 screwball comedy “The Awful Truth” is one of the high watermarks of the genre. This charming, delightful film stars Cary Grant (swoon), Irene Dunne (swoon) and was a big hit upon its […]
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Ham Wash
As I sit in my office typing this, there is a repairman in my laundry room looking at my washing machine, which broke over the weekend. The weekend I’m talking about was Easter weekend, a weekend for family, eating a lot of food—and seeing how many hours long religious epics you can take in from […]
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T-Minus Five Hours and Counting
I had family come in last week over the holiday. From the time of their departure, it would be about five hours before they arrived at my house. I began preparing for their arrival three days beforehand. I inherited my mother’s desire for a presentable looking home and gave every single room of the house a […]
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King of Jazz
In 1929 Universal Pictures began work on what was to become their most ambitious project yet, and one of the most ambitious productions of its time. The film was the musical revue “King of Jazz” which starred bandleader Paul Whiteman and his orchestra—it’s important to note that during this time, the term “Jazz” was something […]
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The Harper Films
Between 1949 and 1976 Author Ross Macdonald wrote a series of novels that featured his private eye character Lew Archer. The first two novels in this series “The Moving Target” and “The Drowning Pool” were both adapted into motion pictures with Paul Newman in the role, however a few concessions were made as “The Moving […]
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Auntie Mame
It was sometimes last Spring, I think, when I was flipping around on a lazy Saturday afternoon at home and came across the 1958 film “Auntie Mame” on Turner Classic Movies about right in the middle of the movie. The film is such a delightful charmer that I usually stop and watch it when I […]
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Never Ending Risk
People often complain about how long it takes to play a game of Monopoly. Poppycock, I say! If you follow the actual printed rules of the game you can play games of Monopoly that end in just over two hours. But the longest games of Monopoly can’t hold a candle to the one game designed […]
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Tom Jones
One of the great joys of talking to you in these pages of new blu-ray editions of a classic film is that I get to see new to me films from time to time as part of it. Talking about movies has always been a part of this column since it began in 2006, I […]
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Night of the Living Dead
The late George A. Romero’s 1968 movie “Night of The Living Dead” is, undeniably, one of the most influential horror films ever made. Not many films can claim to have invented a genre, The Zombie Film, which laid the groundwork for a VERY popular cable TV series based on a certain comic book that features […]
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MARS Ain’t The Kind of Place to Drive Your Car
Last week, Tesla CEO and real-life mad scientist Elon Musk shot a car into space. Part of his SpaceX company testing the most powerful rocket in the world, The Falcon Heavy. The rocket is part of Musk’s hopes to eventually make space travel as common as taking a cross-country flight and other fun space ventures. […]
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