Trailer: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Official)
In 2009, we saw the first film in what Warner Bros. hoped would be the start of a new film franchise in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Down, Jr. in the titular role with Jude Law playing...
View ArticleTrailer: Contagion (Official)
If there’s one type of genre film I always will end up watching (sometimes to my regret if they turn out to be awful) it will be the apocalyptic-themed film. It doesn’t matter if the apocalypse about...
View ArticleThe Daily Grindhouse: The Devils (dir. by Ken Russell)
With Michael Reeves’ Witchfinder General having found some notoriety for it’s graphic depictions of the witchfinding and inquisition of suspected witches and sorcerers in ravaged England during it’s...
View ArticleTrailer: The Dark Knight Rises (Official Teaser)
The first official teaser trailer for the third and final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Saga has finally arrived in it’s official form. The teaser had leaked in bootleg form last week....
View ArticleScenes I Love: Salem’s Lot (1979)
Stephen King’s novels and short stories were mined relentlessly during the late 70’s and through the 80’s and the early 90’s. For the most part the film and tv adaptations of his work were adequate and...
View ArticleTrailer: J. Edgar (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Every year since he retired from acting we seem to get one film from Clint Eastwood and this year it’s going to be one major prestige picture due this November. The film is J. Edgar and it’s a biopic...
View ArticleTrailer: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
While Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises is the most anticipated summer blockbuster for this upcoming 2012 then it would be safe to say that the most anticipated film for 2012 for some would be...
View ArticleReview: The Shawshank Redemption (dir. by Frank Darabont)
“Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” — Andy Dufresne 1994 was the year that men finally got their version of Fried Green Tomatoes and Beaches....
View ArticleTrailer: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2nd Official)
It just a littleunder 3 months before Peter Jackson takes us back to Middle-Earth with the first of three films that will make up The Hobbit trilogy. There’s not much else to say other than this latest...
View ArticleGravity – The Extended Trailer
This may have been posted before, I haven’t seen anything for it, but I’m not sure. Blew my mind, though, as the short version of this was shown as one of the trailers for seeing Elysium. It’s...
View ArticleThat’s Blaxploitaion!: BLACK BELT JONES (Warners 1974)
Originally posted on crackedrearviewer:Here’s the recipe for the quintessential 70s flick: Take a huge hunk of blaxpolitation, add equal parts kung-fu action, throw in some Mafia type villains. Stick...
View ArticleOut of the Saddle: John Wayne in MCQ (Warner Bros, 1974)
John Wayne didn’t get off his horse very often in the latter part of his career. The Duke hadn’t done a non-Western since 1969’s HELLFIGHTERS, but cop pictures were in style in the early 70s due to the...
View ArticleHorror Scenes I Love: Salem’s Lot (Part 2)
“Look at me teacher.” Those were some of the most terrifying words I’ve ever heard growing up. It’s all because of one scene from the tv mini-series which adapted Stephen King’s vampire novel, Salem’s...
View ArticleHorror Scenes I Love: Salem’s Lot (Part 3)
This particular scene was my third favorite from Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot. There’s much to love about this scene. It’s a very claustrophobic sequence with our protagonist Ben Mears (played by David...
View ArticleThe Medium is the Message: Andy Griffith in A FACE IN THE CROWD (Warner...
Originally posted on crackedrearviewer: If you only know Andy Griffith from his genial TV Southerners in THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW and MATLOCK, brace yourself for A FACE IN THE CROWD. Griffith’s folksy...
View ArticleI Wish I Were A Fish: Don Knotts in THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET (Warner...
Originally posted on crackedrearviewer: Don Knotts’ popularity as Deputy Barney Fife on TV’s THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW led to his first starring feature role in THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET. Knotts plays...
View ArticleRebel Rebel: Paul Newman in COOL HAND LUKE (Warner Brothers 1967)
Originally posted on crackedrearviewer: The Sixties was the decade of the rebellious anti-hero. The times they were a-changin’ and movies reflected the anti-establishment mood with BONNIE & CLYDE,...
View ArticleSomebody’s Watching Me: Jane Fonda in KLUTE (Warner Brothers 1971)
Originally posted on crackedrearviewer: I was going to post on KLUTE last week, but between my Internet service going on the fritz and getting swept up in Oscar Fever, I never got around to it. Better...
View ArticleBravo for RIO BRAVO (Warner Brothers 1959)
Originally posted on crackedrearviewer: If there’s such a thing as the quintessential “John Wayne Movie”, RIO BRAVO may very well be it. Producer/director Howard Hawks created the perfect blend of...
View ArticleMove over Keanu, it’s GAY PURR-EE (Warner Brothers 1962)
Originally posted on crackedrearviewer: Where else can you see Parisian pussycats dancing the Can-Can at the Mewlon Rouge but in GAY PURR-EE? This animated musical feature from UPA Studios was a bit...
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