By Furious, on April 7th, 2009
The first Topper movie was made in 1937 and starred Cary Grant as a ghost who, along with his ghost wife, decides that in their recently deceased state, what they need to do is loosen up Cosmo Topper and get him to bust out of the staid mold his wife has forced on him. It was a big financial success and even got nominated for a couple Academy Awards. It solidified Grant’s comedy career and inspired a couple sequels and a couple TV iterations. It sounds like a great movie for a remake, doesn’t it? Once popular and pretty much forgotten, but probably has enough name recognition to attract an audience.
So it should be no surprise [...]
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By Furious, on March 16th, 2009
March 17th. It’s one of those nondescript days of the year that you think will never really amount to much. It’s just an extra day before March 18th. But on the contrary, the 17th is pretty sweet.
Birthdays:
Gary Sinise was born on this date in 1955 and it don’t matter what else he ever does, he’s never outliving that whole Lieutenant Dan thing.
1927 saw the birth of Rudy Ray Moore. If you don’t mind the language, I’d put up Dolemite as the most quotable movie ever.
Kurt Russell was born in 1951. If he can ever team up with John Carpenter again, I swear it’ll solve the world’s economic problems. Is there a person alive that WOULDN’T pay to see that?
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By Furious, on March 5th, 2009
Castaway 2: Wilson’s Revenge
The Deer Hunter: The Next Generation
Harry and the Hendersons 2: Let’s Get Hairy
Remo Williams: The Adventure Ends
Chaplin II: 23 Skidoo
The Continuing Adventures of Ford Fairlane
The Return of George Kaplan: North by Northwest 2
American History XI
8ight
The Fourth Man
Platoon 2: In the Shit
Searching for Bobby Fischer 2, Learning to Castle
Jerry Maguire: Holdout
Traffic Jam – An Easy Rider Tale
Yours, Mine and Ours 2: Who’s Your Daddy?
Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Out to Brunch!
Freaks 2: Freakier
Singing in the Rain: Thunderstorm
Some Like it Hotter
Tranquilizer: The Big Sleep 2
30 Great Sequels That Haven’t Happened. Yet.
By Furious, on December 17th, 2008
December 17th, what more can I say? Maybe it’s because it’s near the end of the year, but there’s all kinds of good stuff about December 17th.
First, the birthdays:
Milla Jovovich, the first lady of zombie movies, was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1975
Giovanni Ribisi, whose father’s name is Gay, was born in 1974
Writer/director/producer/editor/cinematographer Gregg Araki was born in 1959
Rhode Island-obsessed director Peter Farrelly was born in 1956
Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione was born in 1930
Prolific supporting-actor Ernie Hudson was born in 1945
Cherokee actor Wes Studi was born in 1947
Bill Pullman, who is somehow often confused with Bill Paxton, was born in 1953
There were a slew of older movies released on this date that have especially dirty sounding names: The Taint (rereleased 1916); Making a Man [...]
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By Furious, on November 4th, 2008
Next up for the Farrelly Brothers will be perhaps the most ambitiously repugnant thing they’ve attempted yet, a Three Stooges [...]
Continue reading The Three Stooges Ride Again?
By Furious, on November 2nd, 2008
November 2nd has been an interesting day in movie [...]
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By Furious, on October 8th, 2008
October 8th has historically been a pretty good day, at least as far as movies are [...]
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By Furious, on September 2nd, 2008
So, September begins the way August ended, on a bad note. Two days and the loss of two Hollywood [...]
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By Furious, on September 1st, 2008
This motley crew of animated jerks can throw me into a vitriolic rant as easily as any living person. The worst thing about these characters is that I first saw some of them when I was a little kid and they will account for some of the oldest movie memories I’ll ever [...]
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