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The new Western The Magnificent Seven is a remake of a remake, based on the 1960 Yul Brynner-Steve McQueen picture directed by John Sturges,...
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The new Western The Magnificent Seven is a remake of a remake, based on the 1960 Yul Brynner-Steve McQueen picture directed by John Sturges,...
I don’t intend to get in a rut with two RIP Spasms back-to-back, but, man, Gene Wilder. Another great one departed and gone up...
If you went to the movies with any regularity in the 1970s and ’80s, you’ve likely seen or at least heard of a film...
Unless you’ve been living on a fragment of the planet Krypton for the past six months, you know the recent Blu-ray issue of Batman...
The recent release of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is a reminder of the seemingly endless array of television series that have been turned into...
The new Ghostbusters has finally arrived. The remake/reboot/what’s-it-really has opened to medium-cool reviews and decent box office—it’s by no means a dud, but hasn’t...
The script is a familiar one to longtime 007 fans. Immediately after the rollout of any given James Bond movie, the reigning actor will...
Pixar’s seventeenth animated feature Finding Dory has just swum into theaters, and advance word at the time of this writing suggests the long-awaiting follow-up...
If you haven’t seen The Nice Guys yet, do yourself a favor and buy a ticket pronto. Directed and co-written by Shane Black (writer...
I knew when I wrote my previous Spasm that I had not included every Part Two that killed its franchise, but not only had...
The super-sized box office of the decidedly hard-R-rated Deadpool has Hollywood rewriting the playbook on comic book/graphic novel adaptations. Considering the enthusiastic global...
The year that was 1991 will go down in history as the true dawn of the Digital Age of Cinema. Rudimentary computer-generated imagery...
So, Happy 2016! It’s hard to fathom that it’s been a full turn of the seasons since my last Geek Spasm. During my sabbatical,...
The release of James Bond 24 a/k/a SPECTRE is imminent. The previous entry Skyfall came out three years ago, timed to the fiftieth anniversary...
Written by Steve Segal At precisely 4:29 p.m. on the day of October 21, 2015, Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrive from 1985 in...
The release of the 24th James Bond epic SPECTRE is just around the corner, and the theme song “Writing’s On The Wall” by Sam...
Summer is officially over and class is back in session, so it’s the perfect time to revisit some of my favorite movies that, collectively,...
The dog days of the summer of 2015 are crawling to a close, and it’s time to take a look at the July/August offerings....
The month of June started off with a reunion of the co-star and director of Bridesmaids and The Heat. Melissa McCarthy and Paul Feig’s...
This month marks the 40th Anniversary of Jaws, the movie that firmly established Steven Spielberg as a director to be reckoned with and made...
It takes more than being the resourceful and loving head of a family to become a Great Movie Dad — the truly great movie...
The month of May saw the release of two geek-friendly sequels, one the swift family-friendly follow-up to a billion-dollar superhero all-star assembly, and the...
For the first time since The Color Purple in 1985, someone other than John Williams will be scoring a Steven Spielberg movie. The Spielberg/Williams...
From all-mechanical contraptions like the droids of Star Wars and Wall-E to the cybernetic entities in classics such as RoboCop and Terminator, robots have...