yeah, right… like Tom Cruise ages.

More like Jane ERMERGERD, if you know what I mean*

When he took over NBC (left in a rut by his predecessor. legendary schlockmeister Freddy Silverman), his first step was to try and get a decent crop of shows together, and THEN figure out how to get people to watch them.
It worked- but it took a kind of self-confidence and patience that's hard to imagine at the…

Some probably are.
But the Romero films that kicked off the modern version of the genre are pretty left-wing, as are many other good ones.

And THE WALKING DEAD is just a rip-off of Romero's films.
If everyone's going to be ripping off someone else, I'll go with the guy who's at least making jokes about it.

"So,Martin, my son…. do you still get royalties from that sitcom based on ALICE DOESN"T LIVE HERE ANYMORE? Because they rerun that thing like CRAZY over here".

They originally wrote it as AIRPORT V, but then AIRPLANE! came out and basically killed the franchise.
Well, the previous Airport movie (THE CONCORDE: AIRPORT 79) had really fired the fatal shot; AIRPLANE! just snuck into the hospital, put a pillow over it's face, and whispered "it's better this way, daddy".

Actually, Leone wanted Eastwood, Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach to play the 3 gunmen waiting for Bronson at the start of the movie, but Clint refused to do it.

It's pretty unfortunate that, after spending the 1960s appearing in great ensemble cast films,(for top directors,too) Bronson and his agent decided he would only take lead roles in star vehicles.
I'm sure the money was great, but he went from a string of genuine classics to a lot of generic filler.
And it was a…

of course, MC Gaines' son Bill Gaines inherited his publishing company, and REALLY got in trouble with the censorous types in the 1950s….

The thing about RED SUN is that when you take America's most stone-faced badass Bronson and put him next to Mifune, suddenly Bronson becomes the comic relief sidekick.
(Much to his credit, Bronson rolls with it; both the performance and character cheerfully acknowledge that Mifune is large and in charge… which,…

Well, I always knew THE WALKING DEAD was just a George Romero rip-off with the left-wing politics surgically removed, but this makes it's success even MORE depressing.
There's no room for Bub in Trump's America.

Actually, Westlake wouldn't let them use the name "Parker" because he didn't want to lose control of the character (there was a long-running multi-party legal battle over the film rights to James Bond back in the day, resulting in two "unauthorized" Bond films, the 1967 CASINO ROYALE and 1984's NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN)

Actually, Netflix (or at least Canadian Netflix) has a surprising number of his older movies on it (considering anything over 10-20 years old is practically non-existent on there).
I'm thinkin' he's one of the few old skool movie stars who are still cool by contemporary standards.

The security guards insist it wasn't THAT hard.

I've never read any of Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger novels, but I've read some of the ones about his dad Earl Swagger, and they're actually pretty cool and smart in that old school bad-ass way. But I think they work because they're period pieces, and Earl's hard-headed macho act fits better set in that world, where he's…

If you tell a child a story at an influential age, he will grow up believing it's The Way Things Ought To Be.
As a kid, I loved stories about spies. (of course, I still do!) My favorites were the British ones, naturally, but there was this one American spy I liked. He didn't work for the CIA, though; he worked for the…

Well, Valerie Leon wasn't exactly a grotesque figure out of nightmare either!
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It's basically a pretty good Indiana Jones movie.
But I totally get how classic horror buffs can't bring themselves to embrace it, given that during it's years in Development Hell, Clive Barker, George Romero, and Joe Dante were all slated to direct it at one point or another… and then Steven Sommers came in, pitched…

Those "Kharis The Mummy" films also have a timeline and continuity that practically seems DESIGNED to piss off the nerdier fans. Just totally self-contradictory stuff, like that female mummy going into the quicksand in New England in one movie, and coming out of it in the next film in Louisiana.