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PETE EMSLIE: SEND IN THE CLONES (OR WHY I FINALLY CANCELLED MY CABLE TV SUSCRIPTION) 18 Aug 2012 | 02:29 am
Pete Emslie is one of the best contemporary cartoonists around and his blog, The Cartoon Cave, is a must-read. Emslie has recently published what we will term "a guest editorial" because it captures m...
BOB HOSKINS TO RETIRE AFTER BEING DIAGNOSED WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE 17 Aug 2012 | 02:46 pm
Noted British actor Bob Hoskins is ending his film career due to a recent diagnosis that he has Parkinson's Disease. The degenerative ailment will deprive movie goers of enjoying the 69 year old...
TIME MAGAZINE 1965 MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. ARTICLE 17 Aug 2012 | 02:44 am
It's worth a trip in the Cinema Retro Time Machine to travel back to 1965 to see how Time magazine portrayed Robert Vaughn, then 32 years old, as TV's answer to Horatio Alger in the starring role of N...
DVD REVIEW: SIDNEY LUMET'S "THE HILL" (1965) STARRING SEAN CONNERY, HARRY ANDREWS AND OSSIE DAVIS 16 Aug 2012 | 02:31 pm
By Lee Pfeiffer If you're a Sean Connery and haven't yet seen what is possibly his greatest on screen achievement - The Hill- then you've been depriving yourself of a great cinematic experience. Wh...
DVD REVIEW: MICHAEL CAINE IN "PLAY DIRTY" 16 Aug 2012 | 03:00 am
By Lee Pfeiffer With a tidal wave of DVD releases hitting the market every year, it may well be that you are unaware that some of your favorite films are available on home video. In Cinema Retro's n...
THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: WAS AUGUST 1996 THE WORST MONTH FOR MOVIES EVER? 15 Aug 2012 | 02:27 pm
It's no secret that, with few exceptions, the month of August is used by studios to dump dumb or uninspired movies on to audiences. Not really sure why this is the case, but it's true. The blockbuster...
ACTOR ALBERT FREEMAN JR. DEAD AT AGE 78 14 Aug 2012 | 03:08 am
Actor Albert Freeman Jr. (also known as Al Freeman Jr.) has died from unspecified causes at age 78. Freeman had been teaching acting at Howard University in Washington, DC. where he also chaired...
THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS: OCTOBER 21, 1963 13 Aug 2012 | 02:48 pm
The following news items were reported in Film Daily during the week of October 21, 1963 Stephen Boyd in "The Fall of the Roman Empire" Paul Lazarus Jr., executive vice president...
BOOK REVIEW: "HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STILLS" BY JOEL W. FINLER (TITAN BOOKS) 13 Aug 2012 | 02:17 pm
(Published by Titan Books $24.95/£19.99) 208 pages, Illustrated (B&W) ISBN 9781781161937 By Kevin Wilkinson Movie stills have been a rather neglected area of the film industry so it is pleasing...
REVIEW: "THE WAYWARD BUS" ON BLU-RAY STARRING JOAN COLLINS, JAYNE MANSFIELD AND RICK JASON 13 Aug 2012 | 12:06 am
By Lee Pfeiffer It was a long road for John Steinbeck's 1947 bestseller The Wayward Bus to make it on to the silver screen. The steamy novel about sexually frustrated people who find themselves on a...
