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Paramount Presents: The Haunting

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/21/2020 9:15 AM EDT
While Shirley Jackson (The Lottery) may have lacked quantity in her writing, she certainly made up for it in quality. Regarded as a prolific author, she created images that terrified her readers while conversely drawing them into her made-up worlds. In 1959 Viking published Jackson's novel, The Haunting of Hill House, which is consi... Read More

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/19/2020 8:24 PM EDT
Back in the early 2000s, AMC (originally American Movie Classics) aired mostly…you guessed it, old movies. However, by the latter half of the decade, they were experimenting with some original programming. In January of 2008, they furthered their ambition by airing a new show called Breaking Bad. It immediately generated "bu... Read More

Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/19/2020 12:39 PM EDT
If you were a teenager in the 1980's you should definitely remember what movie this line is from…" Are you telling me you built a time machine…out of a DeLorean?" Amazingly, it was thirty-five years ago when the first Back to the Future movie screeched into theaters at 88 miles per hour. Four years later the ... Read More

The Secret: Dare to Dream

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/9/2020 2:00 PM EDT
"The Secret". What is it? Some would say it's all a bunch of mumbo jumbo while others believe it is almost a religion of some sort. It centers on the "law of attraction" or the idea of "positive thinking". Basically, if you think of all the good things you want to have happen in your life,... Read More

The Secret Garden

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/8/2020 2:40 PM EDT
When someone comes across a great story, they often think, "this would make a really good movie", which is why so many novels become major motion pictures. Many of those stories are literary classics – Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, The Great Gatsby, etc. – that lend themselves to the big screen. Frances Hodgson... Read More

300

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 10/6/2020 9:35 AM EDT
This. Is. Sparta!!!!! With those three little words spoken back in 2006, actor Gerard Butler (Law Abiding Citizen) and director Zach Snyder (Man of Steel) became part of cinematic history. It all began when graphic novelist Frank Miller (Sin City) decided to write a story about the Battle of Thermopylae which reportedly took place in 48... Read More

Little Monsters

(Leonard Buccellato) 9/29/2020 3:32 PM EDT
The 1980s were a time of no-holds-barred movies. Some of these films, like Terminator or Amadeus, represent the dichotomy of experimental and groundbreaking movies, to be had across genres. However, there were also too many that were derivative and downright forgettable. This next film falls somewhere in between.Little Monsters is the story o... Read More

Shivers

(Leonard Buccellato) 9/24/2020 8:54 PM EDT
David Cronenberg, without hyperbole, is one of the greatest genre movie directors. Body-Horror, a term used to describe a sub-genre which showcases violations of the human body, is a genre some would say he single-handedly created, albeit admittedly the tropes existed before Shivers and Rabid melted the silver screen. However, no one director/scree... Read More

Full Metal Jacket

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 9/22/2020 1:35 PM EDT
Stanley Kubrick (The Shining) was born in a Manhattan hospital in the summer of 1928. While still in high school he displayed an affinity for writing, photography, and film. By the time he was 23 he was producing and directing short films and four short years later he was directing his first Hollywood feature, The Killing. While the mov... Read More

Irresistible

(Alyn Darnay) 9/22/2020 9:17 AM EDT
Jon Stewart, the genius behind 16 years of the best version of Comedy Central's "Daily Show" may have taken his leave from television, but he hasn't left the spotlight for a minute. Recently, after nine years of lobbying, he showed up at a congressional hearing fighting for health benefits for the First Responders of 911. Then, he showed ... Read More