These are the posts for the month of April in the year 2007 of the common era.
Russians don’t take a dump, son, without a plan.
How quickly did we leave the Cold War behind? The dust had barely settled on the fall of the Berlin Wall when this 1990 Tom Clancy adaptation was treating the subject like a period film. Of course, the world had changed so drastically since the novel’s 1984 publication that it was impossible to view the material as current events.
Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government.
Believe it or not, those potheads who sat around all day back in the seventies, listening to Led Zeppelin IV
Members of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd used some of the profits from their albums to help finance a little gem of cinematic anarchy known as Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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It’s not easy being a cast-iron bitch. It takes discipline, years of training… A lot of people don’t appreciate that.
James Cameron’s deep sea science fiction tale is one of those rare instances of a director revisiting a finished work and genuinely improving the film. The 1989 theatrical release was marred by an abrupt, confusing ending that was the product of Cameron removing almost an entire storyline to bring the film down to a more commercial 146 minute running time. This drastic surgery earned it some lukewarm reviews when it first hit theaters.
Four years later, Cameron re-released a 171 minute cut to theaters and then home video. (more…)
