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ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
If the world was to end in three years as it's been foretold by the Mayans when they devised their intricate series of calendars and almanacs eons ago, you'd probably want it to see its inevitable demise happen the way that it does in Roland Emmerich's new movie 2012 . After all, how could one panic when being entertained by some of the most spectacular displays of destruction ever devised by Germany's...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
While movie theatres aren't quite desperate enough to offer flu vaccinations to ticket buyers, they'll do everything else they can to get seats filled during the coming holiday season. Boffo box office would be like a booster shot for a business plagued with the same worries as so many industries.
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Daimnation! (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Roland Emmerich, the Irwin Allen of this generation, shows the destruction of several Christian landmarks (the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica, the Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking Rio) in the disaster epic 2012, opening next weekend. No scenes showing Mecca...
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the4400guide.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
If you’ve been reading this blog awhile, you know I am a huge fan of Irwin Allen, the 60’s guru of scifi TV and the 70’s Master of Disaster. But as much as I love Irwin, my husband worships at the shrine. Today, Warner Archives announced that they are releasing a rare Irwin Allen gem on DVD. So here’s my husband, Lars, to tell you all about it. * * * * Irwin Allen’s spectacular...
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brnoent | 10/04/2009
This time around, most of mankind bites the dust. There is no crossing the border into Mexico, there is no library to hide in, or anything of that sort.
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TV Squad (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Filed under: Episode Reviews , Reality-Free , Sons of Anarchy (S01E01) The first question I had after watching the new NBC medical drama Trauma was this: can the show keep this up every week? You can tell a lot of money was spent on the pilot, because the first 20 minutes is like Irwin Allen: The Movie . Helicopters crash, cars explode, children are endangered. It's like those big episodes of ER where...
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the4400guide.com (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
“It reaches the limits of one’s patience with Grade D fodder. This show is designed to scare an audience too old for Godzilla but too unsophisticated for Twilight Zone. That is obviously too big of an order for such a silly series.” What classic scifi show do you think this Time magazine reviewer was referring to? You’ll find the answer when you read Mark Phillips’ blog...
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Fairly inventive and exceedingly manic, "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" comes from the 1978 picture book by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett. To say the title helped sell the kids story is an understatement, certainly the only understatement involved with the movie version.
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threedonia.com (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
My column, written about 4 hours after the Twin Towers came down and published in The Examiner the next day: EXAMINER PUBLICATIONS – SEPTEMBER 12, 2001 Infamy By Rich Trzupek As many people have said, this must be how Pearl Harbor felt. A jumble of emotions – shock, anger, sorrow, disbelief – flood over you. The images came from some [...]
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Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Michael Caine will sit for a Toronto Film Festival interview on Sunday, 9.13, at the Isabel Bader theatre to promote his new film, Harry Brown. The interview program is called Mavericks. Caine has worked to some extent in the independent arena, but he's been renowned his entire career for a willingness to act in just about anything. He starred in Joseph Sargent's Jaws 4: The Revenge and Irwin Allen...
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A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
The best scene in the Irwin Allen-produced disaster blockbuster The Towering Inferno comes fairly early. Sneaking away from a party for a newly opened 135-story skyscraper, Robert Wagner and Susan Flannery barely have time to bask in the afterglow from their extramarital quickie before realizing they’re about to be engulfed in flames. After they trade what they hope won’t be their last...
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The Comic Book Catacombs (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
I haven't posted any "Classic Cuties" in quite awhile, having folded this feature over into my regular "Gal" Friday spots, but for some reason today I was trolling the net and ended up looking at old Irwin Allen sci-fi television websites. I was pleasantly reminded of Deanna Lund who had a featured role as Valerie Ames Scott in the Land of the Giants series. During her career, Lund...
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BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
While today's big budget disaster epics have high tech CGI and cutting edge special effects, there is often little heart and practically no story. For that reason this 1974 epic, to paraphrase the Oscar winning song, proves "we may never see movies like this again."
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brnoent | 10/04/2009
This time around, most of mankind bites the dust. There is no crossing the border into Mexico, there is no library to hide in, or anything of that sort.
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