Earlier Movies of the Week

MOVIE OF THE DAY: For a movie called When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, this film -- written and directed by Val Guest -- has surprisingly few dinosaurs in it and the few that it does have don't play much of an integral part in the plot.

I was fortunate enough to meet Donner twice. The first time was when I was working at Paramount and he was on the lot shooting SCROOGED.

It is unlikely this film would be made today, as it depicts a sexual encounter between an adult woman and an underage boy.

It's part of Legendary Pictures Monsterverse series, which began in 2014 with an American remake of Godzilla and was followed by 2017's Kong: Skull Island and 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

This film has gotten a lot of attention for understandable reasons -- it's a provocative, highly-stylized fantasia that directly takes on some of the hottest hot buttons of our times -- #Metoo, rape culture…

To write the book, Crowe, then in his twenties, posed as a high school student for the entire school year so that he could get up close and personal with the kids he was writing about.