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Movie: Ruthless People Release Date: June 27, 1986 Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker. Starring: Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bette Midler, Bill Pullman. Tag Lines: “Barbara Stone has just been kidnapped by K-Mart, and what she doesn’t know won’t hurt her.” “The Big Screw.” “Sam Stone’s wife has just been kidnapped… And […]… Continue reading 248. Ruthless People — A Movie A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

Movie: Heaven Can Wait Release Date: June 28, 1978 Director: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry. Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Buck Henry, Vincent Gardenia, Jack Warden. Tag Lines: “Joe Pendleton…the only guy who ever raised Hell about going to Heaven.” Relevance: I was only seven years old when ‘Heaven Can […]… Continue reading 246. Heaven Can Wait — A Movie A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

Three years ago, fans of “The Simpsons” were left in shock after longtime music composer Alf Clausen was fired from the long-running animated series. They were baffled even moreso when two years after his dismissal, he accused 20th Century Fox Television, Disney and Gracie Films of age discrimination, wrongful termination and retaliation in a lawsuit. However,…… Continue reading ‘Simpsons’ Composer Alf Clausen Was Fired For Delegating Work To His Son, Says Fox — Latest Entertainment News | Top Celebrity News, Hollywood Headlines

While many of us are spending our quarantine time vegetating on the couch, binging Netflix and wondering why we can’t summon the mental willpower to start writing that novel we promised ourselves we would, Kevin Smith is as tirelessly productive as ever and has finished the first draft of the screenplay for his Mallrats sequel. […]… Continue reading Kevin Smith Reveals Which Characters Are Returning For Mallrats 2 — Entertainment Updates

He’s a triple threat because he has done acting, music, and standup comedy. He fucking killed it in each one! Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Childish Gambino, A.K.A. Donald Glover. The multi-talented Donald Glover does it all. If you pieced it together by now! He is called the triple threat because he does(did) […]… Continue reading The Triple Threat — MyStreetLounge

Filmmaker Alice Wu admits that she is someone who needs deadlines. “I guess I respond to external pressure,” she says with a laugh when discussing how she was trying to write her second film, “The Half of It.” Prone to procrastination, she went to extreme measures. “I wrote a check for a thousand dollars to […]… Continue reading Fifteen Years After ‘Saving Face,’ Filmmaker Alice Wu Is Back with ‘The Half of It’ — Variety

It’s no surprise that the novel Coronavirus has changed the average human’s day-to-day life, and television is no exemption. With so called, “stay at home” orders the new normal, talent and technical crews alike need to adapt for the task of working remotely. In an age where everyone carries a camera around in their pocket […]… Continue reading THE TELEVISION ADAPTATION – How TV is coping with COVID-19 — TVDM101 Blog – Nick Vitagliano

United States President and widower Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) is waltzing into an election year, hopeful and somewhat assured of a second term. via The American President (1995) — ref score

Joel and Ethan Coen’s second feature-film, Raising Arizona stands in stark contrast to their first, Blood Simple. It’s an extremely silly movie, constructed from bright colours, slapstick, overacting, babies and optimism. It lacks the strong defining images that structure Blood Simple, but is nevertheless a very visual narrative, in which striking facial expressions and extravagant […]… Continue reading Style over easy — Oliver Arditi

It’s true, quarantine is hard time for all of us. As much as we can make the most of it and keep safe, we all have things that we wish we were doing instead. Wether it’s hanging out with your friends, going to the library or dancing to your favourite tunes at a live concert, […]… Continue reading 10 things I’m looking forward to doing after quarantine — Jorja’s Journal