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• #2,882. October (Ten Days That Shook the World) (1927) - Spotlight on Russia

  

  Co-directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov, October (Ten Days That Shook the World) was produced to commemorate the 1917 October Revolution, when... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,881. Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Stanley Kubrick Triple Feature

  

  The opening moments of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, which play over Johnny Wright’s ballad “Hello Vietnam”, feature his central characters on their firs... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,880. Barry Lyndon (1975) - Stanley Kubrick Triple Feature

  

  “Define Kubrick? Ummm… gives new meaning to the word meticulous”.The above quote has been attributed to Jack Nicholson, the star of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,879. Killer's Kiss (1955) - Stanley Kubrick Triple Feature

  

  A famous filmmaker at the start of their career can be… shall we say… interesting?Sitting down to watch Stanley Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss, his second feature... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,878. The Explosive Generation (1961) - Teen Rebellion in B&W Triple...

  

  I went in expecting a modest little made-for-TV black and white movie about teen rebellion. But The Explosive Generation proved much more explosive, and a lot... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,877. Blackboard Jungle (1955) - Teen Rebellion in B&W Triple Feature

  

  “It had been almost twenty years since Bill Haley’s teenage anthem, ‘Rock Around the Clock’ opened Blackboard Jungle. From the rhythm of its backbeat a... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,876. The Wild One (1953) - Teen Rebellion in B&W Triple Feature

  

  “This is a shocking story. It could never take place in most American towns – But it did in this one It is a public challenge not to let it happen again”When I... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,875. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) - The Films of Peter Sellers

  

  The fourth film (after The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark, and The Return of the Pink Panther) with Peter Sellers as bumbling inspector Jacques Clouseau, Blak... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,874. After the Fox (1966) - The Films of Peter Sellers

  

  Written by Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, Seems Like Old Times).Directed by Vittorio de Sica (Bicycle Thieves, The Children are Watching Us).Starring Peter... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,873. The Mouse That Roared (1959) - The Films of Peter Sellers

  

  Years before taking on three roles in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers played a trio of characters in The Mouse That Roared, a 1959 comedy... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,872. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - War in the Pacific Triple Feature

  

  A combined U.S. / Japanese production, Tora! Tora! Tora! is the epic retelling of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, which compelled the United States to enter... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,871. The Thin Red Line (1998) - War in the Pacific Triple Feature

  

  It must be twenty years since I last watched Terence Malick’s The Thin Red Line, and I had forgotten what an incredible motion picture it is. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,870. Mister Roberts (1955) - War in the Pacific Triple Feature

  

  I was listening to the DVD commentary that the late Jack Lemmon had recorded for 1955’s Mister Roberts, and right off the bat he talked about the two men... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,869. The Red House (1947) - Edward G. Robinson Triple Feature

  

  A suspenseful, sometimes spooky film noir, The Red House weaves an intriguing story that, from time to time, will have the hairs on the back of your neck... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,868. Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) - Edward G. Robinson Triple Feature

  

  Director John Farrow’s 1948 movie Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a unique film noir in that it blends elements of the supernatural into the mix. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,867. Scarlet Street (1945) - Edward G. Robinson Triple Feature

  

  The man behind such classics as Metropolis and M, Fritz Lang fled Germany in 1933 when Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels tried to make him the head of th... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,866. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) - Peter O'Toole Triple Feature

  

  By the time MGM released Goodbye Mr. Chips in 1969, big-budget musicals were already on their way out. But that didn’t stop the studio from giving this movie... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,865. The Ruling Class (1972) - Peter O'Toole Triple Feature

  

  Peter O’Toole was nominated for Best Actor eight times by the Academy. He never won it.Occasionally, it was just bad timing. O’Toole was brilliant in Lawrence o... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,864. Becket (1964) - Peter O'Toole Triple Feature

  

  In 1968, Peter O’Toole played England’s King Henry II in The Lion in Winter, a movie I adore. In that award-winning film, O’Toole’s Henry was a force of... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #2,863. Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) - Burt Reynolds Triple Feature

  

  You go into Smokey and the Bandit II, Hal Needham’s follow-up to his runaway 1977 hit, expecting more of the same.No, check that; you go into this 1980 movie... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES