Category Archives: Classics

War Movie Mondays (Wednesday Edition): ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s War Movie Monday pick is Universal Picture’s first ever Academy Award winning film for Best Picture and for Best Director (Lewis Milestone), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). The film stars Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, … Continue reading →

Posted in Academy Awards, Action, Blu-Ray, Books, Classics, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, Movies, Netflix, Reviews, Universal Pictures, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged Ben Alexander, Fred Zinneman, John Wray, Lew Ayres, Lewis Milestone, Louis Wolheim, Slim Summerville, Walter Rogers | Comments Off

Get Your First Look at the Official ‘Naked Gun’ Video Game

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Matt Raub

Now that we are well into what experts in the 70s referred to as “the future,” video game development has become one of the cheapest and easiest ways to continue a popular franchise from another medium. You have seen it … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Adaptation, Classics, Comedy, Game Trailers, Games, Movies, News, Trailers, Video, Video Games | Tagged Frank Drebin, gamecentric media, icup, Leslie Nielson, naked gun, Naked Gun 33 1/3, Police Squad!, Robert LoCash, tv show | 8 Comments

Monday Picks: ‘Scrooged’

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

Merry Christmas to all the fans of Monday Picks. This week’s pick in celebration of the holiday season is Scrooged. Richard Donner (The Omen, Superman I & II, Lethal Weapon series) directs this modern comedy version of Charles Dickens’ A … Continue reading →

Posted in Blu-Ray, Classics, Comedy, DVD, DVD Reviews, Holiday, Monday Picks, Reviews | Tagged Alfre Woodard, Bill Murray, Bobcat Goldthwait, Brian Doyle-Murray, Carol Kane, David Johansen, John Glover, John Murray, Karen Allen, richard donner, Robert Mitchum | Comments Off

Monday Picks: ‘Die Hard’

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s Monday Pick is the John McTiernan holiday action classic Die Hard. It stars Bruce Willis as tough New York cop John McClane who arrives in Los Angeles during the Christmas holidays to reconcile with his estranged wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) who … Continue reading →

Posted in 20th Century Fox, Academy Awards, Action, Blu-Ray, Books, Classics, DVD, DVD Reviews, Holiday, Monday Picks, Movies, Netflix | Tagged Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Bruce Willis, Clarence Gilyard, De'Voreaux White, Dennis Hayden, Lorenzo Caccialanza, Paul Gleason, Reginald VelJohnson, Robert Davi | Comments Off

Monday Picks: ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

Seasons greetings! This week’s pick is a comedy holiday classic from the successful National Lampoon’s Vacation series. Chevy Chase stars as Clark W. Griswold in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. This third installment of the series follows the Griswolds and Clark’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Box Office, Classics, Comedy, Cult Cinema, DVD, DVD Reviews, Holiday, Monday Picks, Movies, Netflix, Prequels and Sequels | Tagged Beverly D'Angelo, Brian Doyle-Murray, Chevy Chase, Dianne Ladd, Doris Roberts, E.G. Marshall, Johnny Galecki, Juliette Lewis, Mae Questel, Randy Quaid, William Hickey | 1 Comment

Monday Picks: ‘Planes, Trains, and Automobiles’

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

Happy Thanksgiving! In honor of turkey day this week’s Monday Pick is the John Hughes comedy road trip classic Plains, Trains, and Automobiles (1987), which stars Steve Martin and the late, great John Candy in one of his most lovable … Continue reading →

Posted in Classics, Comedy, DVD, DVD Reviews, Monday Picks, Movies, Netflix, Paramount | Tagged John Candy, John Hughes, Kevin Bacon, Plains Trains and Automobiles, Steve Martin | 2 Comments

Late Monday Picks: John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is John Carpenter’s independent horror classic hit Halloween that held the record as the highest grossing independent film of all time. Halloween helped to usher in a new era of slasher films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. … Continue reading →

Posted in Anchor Bay, Blu-Ray, Classics, Cult Cinema, DVD, DVD Reviews, Editorial, Horror, Monday Picks, Netflix | Tagged Charles Cyphers, Debra Hill, Donald Pleasence, Irwin Yablans, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, Moustapha Akkad, Nancy Loomis, Nick Castle, P.J. Soles | 1 Comment

Monday Picks: ‘John Carpenter’s: The Thing’

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

Welcome to Monday Picks, a new weekly feature that examines a new movie every week from a wide array of different genres. In the spirit of the Halloween season, and being that the prequel opened this weekend, to kick us … Continue reading →