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What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?

• 17 July 2021
• Trailers from Hell

George Seaton’s literal feel-good comedy is the flipside of pandemic films like Contagion: a powerful virus ‘cures’ grumpiness and bad vibes, encouraging a kind of Urban Utopia. The picture has ...

Battleground

• 06 January 2017
• Trailers from Hell

Battleground Blu-ray Warner Archive Collection 1949 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 118 min. / Street Date January 10, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, ...

Robert Pirosh's letter to Hollywood executives, 1934

• 12 October 2013
• The Guardian - Film News

Letters of Note blogger Shaun Usher's favourite letter, a memorable attempt to change careers from advertising to scriptwriting 1934 A New York copywriter by the name of Robert Pirosh quit his ...

From Swordfights in Paris to Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima: Parker Evening

• 18 June 2013
• Alt Film Guide

Eleanor Parker today: Beautiful as ever in Scaramouche, Interrupted Melody Eleanor Parker, who turns 91 in ten days (June 26, 2013), can be seen at her most radiantly beautiful in several films Turner ...

Streaming for Your Pleasure: Memorial Day Edition

• 30 May 2012
• Nerdly

Article by Dan Clark of Movie Revolt Well it’s that time again, time for another installment of Streaming for Your Pleasure. With Memorial Day weekend upon us America is about to officially start the ...

Ten Terrific War Movies You Probably Never Heard Of

• 28 February 2012
• SoundOnSight

I’ve always been a war film buff, maybe because I grew up with them at a time when they were a regular part of the cinema landscape. That’s why I read, with particular interest, my Sound on Sight ...

Producers Prepare For "Combat!"

• 17 May 2010
• SneakPeek

Producers Steven Jay Rubin, Steve Mitchell and Dana Walker continue to develop a $35 million feature version of "Combat!", the 1960's ABC TV series about an American infantry squad fighting in France. ...