For the second film in my post-birthday favorite film marathon, I chose a bit of a dark horse--Terence Malick's 1998 film The Thin Red Line. I've loved this since the first time I saw it in the theater. That was a memorable experience because the...
LGM film club
This 1966 newsreel is....weird. These people look like idiots. I assume that this never caught on in the United States. I hope not anyway. I also trust that part of.
We haven't featured any boxing in here for awhile, so here's the first Ali-Frazier bout from March 8, 1971. Truly one of the great fights of all time. Plus all.
It's truly amazing to remember how controversial and scary Madonna was supposed to be when she was a huge hit maker from the mid-80s through the early 90s. Watching this now, I mean, really? But this was the PMRC era and Tipper Gore and company...
In the famed miniseries North and South, Johnny Cash was cast to play John Brown. I hate to tell you this, but Johnny Cash was a horrible actor and I.
Today is Gene Hackman's 93rd birthday. It took him a long time to become the big star he always deserved to be. So he had to do the kind of.
Every year around my birthday, I watch a big set of my very favorite movies, you know, the ones you can just turn on over and over again and they make you happy. So I started last night with Apocalypse Now. So much has been...
It's winter. Some of you think it is fun to hurl yourself down a mountain in the cold. This does not sound like a lot of fun to me, but.
I recently watched Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country for the first time in several years. It's still a classic, but a couple of things struck me. First, Joel McCrea.
So this video quality is not very good. Henry Fonda's words don't match his mouth. And whoever broadcast this 1974 Fonda one-man show for NBC where he plays Clarence Darrow used a damned laugh track for the jokes, which makes it painful and dated. On...
Last night, I watched the 2021 film The American Sector. Directed by Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez, it looks at all the random places in the United States where pieces.
Saw that Carl Hahn died. He was the head of Volkswagen in the U.S. and played a huge role in making the Beetle one of the all-time icon cars. Here's.