Paramount | 2010 | 710 mins. | NR I’m starting to feel really old. I actually remember the birth of MTV; a time when music and videos were the sole focus of the channel. As a college student when The…
Warner Bros. | 2010 | 125 mins. | R Just a few years ago, it looked like Ben Affleck might have thrown away much of a promising career. After scoring an Academy Award (with Matt Damon) for writing 1998’s Good…
Warner Bros. | 1974 | 24 mins. | NR Rankin-Bass gained their reputation largely on a series of holiday specials produced for television during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Their use of stop-motion animation resulted in some fondly remembered gems, including…
Warner Bros. | 2002-2004 | 179 mins. | PG Created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, Scooby-Doo has been one of television’s most popular cartoon characters since hitting the airwaves in 1969. Given its longtime appeal, and Hollywood’s love for…
Paramount Pictures | 1969 | 127 mins. | G Sixty-two year-old John Wayne’s Best Actor Oscar in 1969, for True Grit has generally been considered as a belated, long-overdue ‘career’ Oscar award or ‘sentimental favorite’ award. That reasoning is hard…
Disney / Buena Vista | 1940-1999 | 2 Movies | 195 min | G Few would deny that Walt Disney was a creative genius. Looking at Walt’s history, there are countless milestones and achievements. Even so, Disney was always looking…
Warner Bros. | 1985 | 114 mins. | PG I’ve been a fan of The Goonies from the day it was released back in 1985. I think I saw the film at least three times in the theater, rented it…
Shout Factory | 1982 | 86 mins. | NR Frank Sinatra needs little introduction. Considered by many to be the first modern superstar, since the 1940’s he has been one of the biggest selling recording artists since the 1940’s. Beyond…
Warner Bros.| 2010 | 148 mins. | PG-13 Hot off the stunning achievement that was The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan could have easily cashed a big check by attaching himself to a pre-existing project. Instead, he took on an…
Criterion | 1983 | 89 mins. | R Until recently, I’d never made it all the way through director David Cronenberg’s Videodrome. I’m not exactly sure why, except to say that it just seemed a little too weird for me…