The wide-open mouths, extended fingers, and high-pitched screeching of Invasion of the Body Snatchers should be enough to keep you locked in your house for at least a week. Jack Finney’s classic science fiction novel has been the basis of three big-screen adaptations, beginning with the 1956 chiller Invasion of the Body Snatchers and most […]
Gilligan’s Island: The Series
During what was supposed to be a three-hour tour, the S.S. Minnow is shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island following a typhoon. The seven castaways include the Minnow’s blustery captain (Alan Hale Jr.), his bumbling first mate Gilligan (Bob Denver), a millionaire couple named the Howells (Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer), curvaceous movie star Ginger […]
American Graffiti
Here’s how critic Roger Ebert described the unique and lasting value of George Lucas’s 1973 box-office hit, American Graffiti: “[It’s] not only a great movie but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological treatise could duplicate the movie’s success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant.” The time […]
Pretty Woman
Like a pumpkin that transforms into a carriage, some very shrewd casting and the charisma of Julia Roberts, in particular, morphed this story of a Hollywood whore into a Disneyfied Cinderella story. This is the movie that made Roberts a star; the charm of her personality helping tremendously to carry viewers over the rough spots […]
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