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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.

A remake of the 1946 noir classic (based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway), this hard-boiled production was a made-for-TV movie that was deemed too violent for TV and so was released theatrically.

The film is shot in black and white and looks terrific, although Fincher has chosen to use a very hyper-active visual style that creates a great deal of anxiety in the viewer for no reason I can fathom.

This is supposed to be heartwarming, I think, but I found it to be pretty creepy.

Saw him once at Paramount when he was filming The Presido. I was walking down an alley and a stage door swung open and out stepped Sir Sean Connery.

On October 24, Arlo Guthrie announced he was retiring after a fifty-year-plus career due to poor health.

have a pretty high tolerance for most things, but sadism in movies is something I find hard to take, so I avoided seeing this film for many years because it has a reputation for being extremely graphic and cruel.