[amazon_link asins=’B01MTF2WGZ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’5254e79d-3a75-11e7-95ea-ffcbfc2bbe67′] Samara has gone digital! VHS, her vengeful format of choice was already on borrowed time in 2002, when Rings, Gore Verbinski’s Japanese horror remake hit theaters. Fifteen years later, as the franchise resurfaces with…
[amazon_link asins=’B06XNPL54J’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’87be46a1-3807-11e7-9adf-ff2dabe3c294′] Released theatrically on March 24th, 1972, The Godfather, considered by many to be one of the greatest films ever made, turns 45 this year. To celebrate the occasion, Paramount has issued a 45th Anniversary…
[amazon_link asins=’B06W2GF1P3′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’c4ef325c-3660-11e7-91bc-a5463482c9ee’] The brainchild of John Waters, impresario of bad taste, and transgressive art, Serial Mom is probably the easiest of his films for average Americans to relate to. Most mothers are overly protective of their…
[amazon_link asins=’B071D7G5VW’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’52906a9b-3347-11e7-9980-55774a0b773a’] Scripted by Twilight Zone creator Rod Sterling and directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate (1962)), Seven Days in May is based on the novel of the same name by Fletcher Knebel and Charles…
[amazon_link asins=’B01N37D6XC’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’de3ed666-31d3-11e7-b76e-d1eb82f71e32′] Earlier this year, footage of a dog allegedly being mistreated during the filming of a scene on the set of A Dog’s Purpose angered online activists, and quickly went viral. Independent investigators later found…
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[amazon_link asins=’B06XDCTSPM’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’44c78740-2c42-11e7-a327-7b5b0a53bbdc’] Saturday Night Fever arrived in U.S. movie theaters on December 12, 1977, quickly becoming a hit with audiences and critics alike. In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National…
[amazon_link asins=’B01LTHZEP8′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’12ff8fda-2920-11e7-b9f9-99fa2d18deba’] From executive producer’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, MARS is a fascinating kind of hybrid series–real life documentary of events, mixed with a fictionalized account of man’s first attempt to colonize Mars circa 2033….
[amazon_link asins=’B01MURPKJ8′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’cae9c0cc-2608-11e7-80aa-51529d204a29′] Writer/director John Michael McDonagh received critical accolades for his last two feature films, The Guard (2011), and Calvary (2014). His unique brand of social commentary mixed with a wicked streak of black comedy, made…
[amazon_link asins=’B01LTI1RHQ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’a1a13ec8-23a3-11e7-a370-25ff00e49daf’] Set in 1960’s Virginia, Hidden Figures tells the story of three pioneering African American women whose work at NASA was important to several space missions, including John Glen’s orbit of the Earth. At that…