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THE BOOTLEG FILES: “MOMENT BY MOMENT”

By | October 2006

Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files celebrates the world of classic and kooky cinema that can only be appreciated on bootleg videos. This week, Phil revives the movie that killed John Travolta’s career…

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: “MOMENT BY MOMENT”

BOOTLEG FILES 153: “Moment by Moment” (1978 stinker starring John Travolta and Lily Tomlin). LAST SEEN: Recently broadcast on the Universal HD cable...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: DESPERATE AND NOT SERIOUS

Maybe I’m self-centered, but it seems like every movie Nic Cage has made as of late seems specifically designed to piss me off. He’s like some...

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE WITCHES”

BOOTLEG FILES 151: “The Witches” (1966 Italian hodgepodge with Clint Eastwood). LAST SEEN: We cannot confirm the last public screening of this...

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN CELEBRITY SEX TAPE

There was a time when the word “celebrity” meant something. A time when you had to achieve something great in the world in order for someone to look up...

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: “ALICE OF WONDERLAND IN PARIS”

BOOTLEG FILES 150: “Alice of Wonderland in Paris” (1966 animated atrocity). LAST SEEN: Available for online viewing at MovieFlix. AMERICAN HOME...

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...

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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...

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