Loosely based on true story, 1979’s The Runner Stumbles was the final film of legendary director/producer Stanley Kramer’s (Judgement at Nuremberg, Inherit the Wind, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner) long career. Set in remote Michigan circa 1911, the story begins…
During its eleven year run from 1967-78 on CBS, The Carol Burnett Show racked up an impressive 25 Emmys, eight Golden Globes, and three People’s Choice Awards. Even now, thirty-five years after the series went off the air, and with…
In conjunction with the release of the new film Saving Mr. Banks—a dramatization of the making of Mary Poppins starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson—Disney is releasing a special 50th Anniversary Blu-ray of the 1964 musical classic. Regularly on television,…
At the dawn of the 1960’s, Carl Reiner a former writer and cast member on Your Show Of Shows, sought to create a sitcom that explored what happened when daddy left home and went to work in the writer’s room…
Scripted by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. and directed by Warren Beatty, Dick Tracy got a lot of press prior to its 1990 release for its dynamic approach to filmmaking. The special effects were mind-boggling for the time and…
Disney Studios | 2009 | 101 mins. | PG With a body of work that includes some of the most popular songs and of the 20th century – including “It’s a Small World (After All),” “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and “I Wan’na Be…
In the fall of 1969, the American landscape was changing. Earlier that year, “the summer of love” had changed how many of the youth and their elders discussed such previously taboo subjects as dating and sex. With the seventies upon…