Tag: Steven Spielberg
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FRANCHISE REWIND: Jurassic Park (1993)
Jurassic Park, 1993 (Sam Neill) Universal Pictures “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.” I don’t know why we didn’t get around to seeing Jurassic Park in its original run. Maybe I was working, but I did eventually get down to the…
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FRANCHISE REWIND: Back to the Future, Part III (1990)
Back to the Future, Part III, 1990 (Michael J. Fox) MCA/Universal “Marty, the future isn’t written. It can be changed. You know that. Anyone can make their future whatever they want it to be. I can’t let this one little photograph determine my entire destiny. I have to live my life according to what I…
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FRANCHISE REWIND: Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Jaws: The Revenge, 1987 (Lorraine Gary) MCA/Universal “I’ve always wanted to make love to an angry welder.” I’ve seen Jaws: The Revenge several times over the years and it never occurred to me that this is a Christmas movie. It takes place during Christmas, or at least the start of the movie has a festive…
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FRANCHISE REWIND: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 2008 (Harrison Ford) Paramount Pictures/Lucasfilm “We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.” This feels wrong, doesn’t it? There’s something off about a franchise; something that started at the beginning of the 1980s, and here it…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Poltergeist, 1982”
“A terrible presence is in there with her. So much rage, so much betrayal, I’ve never sensed anything like it. I don’t know what hovers over this house, but it was strong enough to punch a hole into this world and take your daughter away from you.” Poltergeist, 1982 (JoBeth Williams), MGM/UA I had not…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Jekyll And Hyde – Together Again, 1982”
“Will a proctologist please report to the Emergency Room? There’s an asshole waiting!” Jekyll And Hyde – Together Again, 1982 (Mark Blankfield), Paramount Pictures Just before the end credits roll, the camera sweeps over a London cemetery to find the grave of Robert Louis Stevenson. In his coffin, Stevenson’s bones literally turn as he curses…
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New Episode! “T.n.T. (Terror ‘n Tinseltown)”
88th Academy Awards with Chris Rock, Angela Bassett, Louis C.K., and Leonardo DiCaprio produced by David Hill and Reginald Hudlin. Directed by Glenn Weiss. “Act Naturally” (Johnny Russell/Voni Morrison) by Buck Owens and the Buckaroos. “Til It Happens to You” (Lady Gaga/Diane Warren) by Lady Gaga. “Mad Max: Fury Road” (a 2015 film directed by…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Romancing The Stone, 1984”
“What’d you do? Wake up this morning and say, ‘Today I’m gonna ruin a man’s life!’?” Romancing The Stone, 1984 (Michael Douglas), 20th Century Fox Romancing The Stone begins as a story-within-a-story, the perils of Angelina and her love-interest, Jessie. She exacts revenge on the evil Grogan, while Jessie dispatches Grogan’s equally-evil brothers. Together they…
Misadventures in Blissville 