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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: LONG DEAD FROM NEW YORK, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT!

By | October 2006

It’s a sentence no serious cinemaphile wants to hear. “I just love the ‘Saturday Night Live’ movies.” That’s worse than hearing the doctor say, “We saw something unusual in your lab work…”

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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: LONG DEAD FROM NEW YORK, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT!

It’s a sentence no serious cinemaphile wants to hear. “I just love the ‘Saturday Night Live’ movies.” That’s worse than hearing the doctor...

THE EL CAPITAN EXPERIENCE

(In honor of today’s release of the two-disc Platinum Edition of "The Little Mermaid," I go back to September 10th, my first visit to the El Capitan...

Bootleg Files Features

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “GAMERA VS. MONSTER X”

BOOTLEG FILES 149: “Gamera vs. Monster X” (1970 kaiju shenanigans based at the Osaka World’s Fair). LAST SEEN: Available for online viewing at...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: NOAH’S BARK

I’m one of five people who has not read Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code.” I haven’t seen the movie, either. Tom Hanks with long, greasy hair is...

DECOMMISSIONING THE “JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA”

In 1997, CBS commissioned a live-action Justice League of America pilot, based on the popular DC Comics characters. The trainwreck that followed found its...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: DOPE PUSHERS

You’ve all had this experience. “I just saw this movie I know you’d love,” she says. “What is it?” you ask. “It’s this romantic comedy...

Bootleg Files Features

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “GAMERA”

BOOTLEG FILES 148: “Gamera” (1965 kaiju romp with the world’s largest turtle). LAST SEEN: Available for download via Public Domain...

Bootleg Files Features

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “OUR TOWN”

BOOTLEG FILES 147: “Our Town” (1955 TV musical with Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint). LAST SEEN: We cannot confirm the last public...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: THE GROSS

I recently finished Peter Bart’s “The Gross,” an examination of Hollywood in the summer of 1998. It sounds like it may be interesting, with that...

FILM PHONICS: “THE TASTE OF OTHERS”

Rating * Director: Agnes Jaoui Writers: Jean-Pierre & Agnes Jaoui Producers: Christian Berard & Charles Gassot Starring: Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre...

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