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  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Network

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Network

    About a 5-minute read Here’s a movie I didn’t expect to go off the rails: Network. Number 64 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest American Films of All Time, this 1976 Sidney Lumet film looked like a peek behind the curtain of television in the Seventies, where, in this reality-adjacent setting, four major networks…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

    1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a movie steeped in nostalgia, but it is also a weird movie with eccentirc characters. This article explores what makes Prince of Thieves enjoyable and what brings it down.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Violent Night

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Violent Night

    Violent Night is not your traditional holiday movie fare, at least not on the surface. Peel back the violence and explosions, and you get something familiar that will either wrap you in the warm embrace of Christmas nostalgia or beat you over the head with it.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – House of Wax (2005)

    Saturday Morning Cinema – House of Wax (2005)

    About a 5-minute read Wax on. Wax off. Paris Hilton. Pre-“Sammy” Padalecki. Serial Siamese Twins. A mid-aughts horror delicacy. When you think of 2005’s House of Wax, do you think of Paris Hilton? I do. It’s easy to dismiss the movie because of her presence, not that anything she did or did not do in…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Nothing But Trouble

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Nothing But Trouble

    About a 5-minute read I dreamed a dream of Halloween and hoped what I saw was not to be. In a never-ending fever of grotesque and macabre, my fleeting sanity the torment did rob. When I awoke, its presence I felt, though night’s shadows and darkness ran from the dawning sun’s melt. My dream was…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Tootsie

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Tootsie

    I didn’t trust that I’d like Tootsie, but that could be a side effect of my sentiment toward the state of disappointing new releases. However, there’s a reason Tootsie is #69 on AFI’s top 100 list. Let’s see if a trip back in time to 1980s NYC can rekindle the cinematic flame in my heart.