“Nothin’ like a good piece of hickory.”
The Scoop: 1985, R, Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Clint Eastwood, Richard Kiel and Michael Moriarty.
Tagline: Hell has come home.
Summary Capsule: The Man With No Name saves a mining settlement with no hope.
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“If I would’ve known that my work would’ve had such a morbid effect on people, I would’ve devoted more time to eroticism.”
The Scoop: 2012 R, directed by James McTeigue and starring John Cusack, Luke Evans, and Alice Eve
Tagline: The only one who can stop a serial killer is the man who inspired him.
Summary Capsule: Tagline kinda steals my thunder: Edgar Allan Poe has to stop a serial killer who uses his stories as inspiration.
“That Jezebel is still among us, sequestered in her castle, bathing in the blood of innocent virgins.”
The Scoop: 2008 15, directed by Juraj Jakubisko and starring Anna Friel, Vincent Regan and Karel Roden.
Tagline: Warrior. Tyrant. Lover. Vampire. A Legend has many faces.
Summary Capsule: Sixteenth-century ruler keeps getting mistaken for a vampire while she struggles to keep control over Hungary. Read the rest of this entry »
“This is a revolution, dammit! We’re going to have to offend SOMEbody!”
The Scoop: 1972 G, directed by Peter H. Hunt and starring William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard, and David Ford
Tagline: The Award Winning Musical Comes To The Screen!
Summary Capsule: Founding Fathers quibble, make love AND war, and get drunk very early in the morning. It makes ya proud to be an American.
“It will be good of you to mark my face, Saxon, for the next time you see it, it will be the last thing you see on this earth.”
The Scoop: 2004 R, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Clive Owen, Keira Knightley and Ioan Gruffudd.
Tagline: The untold true story that inspired the legend.
Summary Capsule: Um, tagline? I think you might be a bit off-base with that “true” bit, but still, this is an enrapturing retelling of the Arthurian legend set in Roman times. Read the rest of this entry »
“Talk is for lovers, Merlin! I need the sword to be king!”
The Scoop: R 1981, directed by John Boorman and starring Nicol Williamson, Nigel Terry and Cherie Lunghi.
Tagline: No mortal could possess it! No kingdom could command it!
Summary Capsule: Arthur is on the rocks, but a cryptic wizard and a green sword are on his side. Read the rest of this entry »
“In my world, people like me do not write plays. People like you do.”
The Scoop: 2011, PG, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Rhys Ifans, Sebastian Armesto, Vanessa Redgrave and Rafe Spall
Tagline: We’ve all been played.
Summary Capsule: Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare. It’s probably a lot more mind blowing if you’re high.
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“If you don’t go out there, everyone will say that Clint Eastwood is the biggest yellow-belly in the west!”
The Scoop: 1989 PG, directed by Rovbert Zemeckis and starring Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, and Mary Steenburgen
Tagline: They’ve saved the best trip for last… but this time they may have gone too far.
Summary Capsule: Marty and Doc travel to the ooooooooooold west and battle the Lone Ranger and Tonto and camp out on the Ponderosa while singing Oklahoma.
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“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need… roads.”
The Scoop: 1985 PG, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson
Tagline: 17 year old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early.
Summary Capsule: Teen brings the 80′s to the 50′s, makes out with his mom, and invents rock ‘n roll
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“I could be good for five thousand pounds a year.”
The Scoop: 2004 12, directed by Mira Nair and starring Reese Witherspoon, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Gabriel Byrne.
Tagline: In a time of social climbers, Becky Sharp is a mountaineer.
The Scoop: Poor girl tries to make good through skulduggery, while the classic-novel-adaptation genre gets a kick in the pants.
