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Number-Crunching The 85th Annual Academy Awards (50th Post!)

The 85th Annual Academy Awards are Sunday night! And while I may have passionately railed against one of the films nominated for Best Picture, I am still extremely excited for Oscars night. There will...

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Make Musicals, Not Museum Pieces! (The Real Revival Lesson From Hollywood’s...

Some people may think I’m beating a dead War Horse devoting so much of this blog to the problems with recent Hollywood adaptations of Broadway shows. But with Sunday night’s Oscar tribute to the New...

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Wizard Of Oz

I was almost giddy when The Film Experience chose The Wizard of Oz for the first “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” Challenge. “The answer is obvious!” I thought. “Everyone knows what the most Historic And...

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Barbarella

Barbarella is a silly, softcore, S&M, PG-rated movie from 1968. Yes, I’m aware of how many times I just seemingly contradicted myself. I promise to explain all. As those of you who frequent my...

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Forbidden Games

You can’t predict how people will grieve. After World War II, a psychic scar was left on the world that produced some of the most tragic films, as each country and culture tried to deal with the...

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Jackie Brown

More than any other director, Quentin Tarantino uses his films as love-letters to the genres he worships. Reservoir Dogs is a gangster film; Kill Bill is a pastiche of spaghetti westerns and Chinese...

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Passover Guest Blog for Beer And A Movie

Happy Passover/Lent/Easter! My good friend Gabe over at the blog Beer And A Movie allowed me to write a guest blog for him. If you’re not already following him, Gabe is a film-and-beer-expert who...

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Shorts

Short reviews for short films. I’m writing this (and watching these) from my iPhone as I stand in line for Jurassic Park in 3D at the Academy. And since I just wasted a bunch of words bragging to you...

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Happy Birthday Natalie Kalmus, Queen of Technicolor!

The three greatest words in cinema! I can’t believe how little I’ve talked about Technicolor on this blog. It is far and away my favorite subject. I’ve touched on it a few times here, but if you’ve...

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HMWYBS Jurassic Park 3D & CGI

Jurassic Park is one of those defining movies for kids of the ’80s and ’90s. Whether they love it or hate it (and let’s be honest, we all love it), they can still tell you where they saw it, when they...

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5 Weird Colors From Merriam Webster As Seen In Technicolor

Did you miss these Top 5 lists? I know I did. Last week’s brief (that’s right, 2,500 words count as brief) history of the Queen of Technicolor lends itself perfectly to a list of Top 5 Technicolor...

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HMWYBS: How “A Star Is Born” Changed My Life

It’s strange to think how much one movie can affect your life. A Star Is Born could easily be considered the mascot film of this blog. I’ve raved (and occasionally ranted) about A Star Is Born in all...

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4 Best Movie Spoofs From “The Carol Burnett Show”

Today is the 80th birthday of one of the funniest women in America, A lady who ruled TV for 11 years on her own sketch show on CBS, Carol Burnett! Although I clearly wasn’t alive during 1967-1978, I...

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WRM Podcast: Treasure Island(s)!

Avast ye recyclers! After a month-and-a-half long hiatus, the We Recycle Movies podcast is back and better than ever (now with sound clips)! This month, we talk about four of the over fifty...

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HMWYBS: Double Indemnity and LA Architecture

I seem to start every Hit Me With Your Best Shot post like this, but I’m going to say it again: Today I would like to talk about one of my favorite subjects. No, this time it’s not Technicolor or film...

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HMWYBS Summertime and Trains!

Anne is technically on hiatus through May to finish a writing project, but will contribute brief submissions to Hit Me With Your Best Shot because she’ll be damned if she doesn’t see the entire series...

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Special Guest Post from Gabe: Die Hard!

Anne is on hiatus during May as she finishes what is quickly becoming the writing project from Hell. In the meantime, please enjoy this guest review by Gabe, writer/drinker of Beer And A Movie. Hey...

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HMWYBS: The Talented Mr. Ripley

Anne is technically on hiatus through May putting super-heroic effort into a writing proposal, but will contribute brief submissions to Hit Me With Your Best Shot because she never started a project...

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HMWYBS: Fantasia

Anne continues to technically be on hiatus in May, but apparently she doesn’t know the meaning of the word “hiatus” since she insists on continuing with Hit Me With Your Best Shot. We forget that Walt...

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HMWBS: Hud

Anne continues breaking her hiatus with this last entry for Hit Me With Your Best Shot, which ironically ends the same time as her self-imposed May break. Regular updates resume next week. Before we...

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