More from Comic-Con 2016: Costumes!
Posted on August 2, 2016 at 1:07 pm
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William Shatner Talks to AARP About Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary
Posted on August 2, 2016 at 11:49 am
William Shatner spoke to AARP The Magazine’s Bill Newcott about the 50th anniversary of “Star Trek.” My favorite quote: I was making a documentary, and I needed an airplane. So I cold-called an executive at the Canadian airplane manufacturer Bombardier and asked to borrow one. He said, “Sure! I became an aeronautical engineer because of …
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Family Movies About the Olympics
Posted on August 2, 2016 at 8:00 am
Hurray! The summer Olympics start this week. Here are some movies to help kids get ready. The First Olympics: Athens 1896, one of my very favorite sports movies ever, is a made-for-TV miniseries about the first modern-day Olympics. We take the Olympics as a given now, but there were 1500 years between the time of …
Two New Remakes With a Twist: Splash and Rocketeer
Posted on August 1, 2016 at 3:53 pm
More remakes! Two Disney films are getting remakes and both have gender twists. I’ve always had a lot of affection for Disney’s Rocketeer, with Billy Campbell, Timothy Dalton, Alan Arkin, and Jennifer Connelly. It was not a hit when it was released, but it is stylish and smart and exciting. I’m not the only one …
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New on DVD: Orry-Kelly Documentary “Women He’s Undressed”
Posted on August 1, 2016 at 3:23 pm
The greatest hat in the history of movies is the one worn by Ingrid Bergman at the end of “Casablanca.” The second greatest hat in the history of movies is the one worn by Bette Davis in “Now Voyager.” Both, along with iconic gowns like Marilyn Monroe’s almost-bare dresses in “Some Like it Hot” and …
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