Monthly Archives: February 2013
Make Musicals, Not Museum Pieces! (The Real Revival Lesson From Hollywood’s Musical Golden Age)
Some people may think I’m beating a dead War Horse devoting so much of this blog to the problems with recent Hollywood adaptations of Broadway shows. But with Sunday night’s Oscar tribute to the New Movie Musical, as well as … Continue reading
My Bloody “Valentine” Revenge! BAAM Crossover
Last year I invited Gabe Beer And A Movie over for a Valentine’s Day marathon. We reviewed two terrible versions of “My Bloody Valentine” and drank two thematically-appropriate beers. It was (to steal a line from a Valentine’s Day favorite) … Continue reading
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Tagged 2001, Denise Richards, Horror Movies, Katherine Heigl, My Bloody Valentine, Slasher, Valentine, Valentine's Day
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5 Genre-Bending Modern Westerns
During last week’s podcast on True Grit(s), we talked about our favorite Classic Westerns. (Mostly they were John Ford movies or anything shot in Monument Valley.) However, as we noted the Classic Western has basically disappeared. The scholar Richard Slotkin … Continue reading
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Tagged Blazing Saddles, Brad Pitt, Dead Man, Django Unchained, Firefly, Johnny Depp, Joss Whedon, Legends Of The Fall, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks, Quentin Tarantino, Serenity, Western Genre
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We Recycle Movies 