Clothes on Film (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Travolta's look defined an era: smart, yet somehow scruffy; classy yet somehow cheap. Related posts: Double Feature Review: Saturday Night Fever Eastern Promises: Viggo Mortensen’s Double Breasted Suit
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Criminal Minds 05x07, "The Performer," written by Holly Harold, directed by John Badham That was a sort of sweet, touching, cute, lighearted episode of Criminal Minds . About vampirism. And Goth rock. Where's my "somewhat incongruous" icon? Because everything's better with a skinny gothboi singing Joy Division covers. Especially when he can actually sing. Oh, honey, goths don't...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Rocker GAVIN ROSSDALE is to play a twisted character loosely based on KISS star GENE SIMMONS in TV cop drama CRIMINAL MINDS.The former Bush frontman, who is married...
Empire News (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Paul Blart director boards robot remake
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Long ago, in a strange time, baseball was segregated on the basis of skin tone. John Badham's film The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings explores that era. Click here for a clip from the fine film.
Jog - The Blog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
*It's just nature's way. LAST WEEK'S REVIEWS: West Coast Blues (new Jacques Tardi in English; for your further noir needs) That is all. *Hm? Oh, right - I should have had a movie column up too, regarding Akira creator Katsuhiro Ōtomo's live-action adaptation of Mushi-Shi , but, entirely due to my own fuckery, it won't be posted until tomorrow or Thursday. I'll let you know when it's up. *In lieu...
Cinema Treasures (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
If you were to recall movies and TV thirty years ago, you might remember that Dracula and other vampires had become quite popular in pop culture entertainment. - "Love at First Bite" (April 1979) - George Hamilton played the legendary Count who comes to New York City to sweep sexy model Susan Saint James off of her feet. This was, of course, a silly comedy, but it set the stage in our minds...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
truckle \TRUHK-uhl\, intransitive verb: To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to act in a subservient manner. A small wheel or roller; a caster. Truckle is from truckle in truckle bed (a low bed on wheels that may be pushed under another bed; also called a trundle bed), in reference to the fact that the truckle bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master....
Popdose (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
For this week's Revival House, Jeff Johnson takes us all the way back to 1983, when a modem was the height of home-computer awesomeness and Matthew Broderick almost started World War III.
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Before Die Hard and the its knock-offs blew apart buildings with over-the-top stories, director John Badham's aerial escapist thriller offered a showdown in the sky that sent glass flying over Los Angeles. While light on plot, this one still packs some thrills more than 25 years later. Just don't expect this Blue to deliver much thunder on Blu-ray.
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Behold ladies and gents perhaps the most well-known and oft-parodied “musical” of the last 35 years. We’ve seen it a thousand times; the white polyester suits, the neon lights of the nightclub floor, that awful hip-shake-then-point-at-the-sky-then-repeat dance move. Oh yeah, and that classic Beegees soundtrack. All of these things define Saturday Night Fever (and the disco movement...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
Remakes, remakes, and more remakes! Dimension Films has hired a new writer for the Short Circuit remake they announced last April. The original screenwriters/creators S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock had been hired to pen the remake, but apparently the Weinstein's want to go in another direction with screenwriter Dan Milano. Before you write this one off completely, let me tell you a bit about the new...
EclipseMagazine.com (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
This Blu-ray starts up right away because it doesn’t include that BD-Java crap. The main menu is simple, clean and features Staying Alive playing in the background right away it puts you in the mood to watch. The Travolta strut at the beginning is still one of the greatest movie openings, ever. I hate [...]
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 05/13/2009
Blu-Ray News: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the UK Blu-ray Disc release of 4 catalogue titles on 3rd August 2009. The titles include Edward Zwick's About Last Night, John Badham's Blue Thunder, Joel Schumacher's St. Elmo's Fire and Doug Liman's G...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
Weekly Smoke and Mirrors: Job offers entry into entertainment business -- In a sign of the times, some 800 job seekers stood in line last week to audition for one of 40 available positions as tour guide at the studio's theme park. The new recruits will guide tourists through the U backlot on a fleet of trams.
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