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The Sci-Fi Western Horror Of 'Westworld' In Today's Sick Day Stash
7 October 2009 12:00 PM, PDT
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Call them "cult classics." "Guilty pleasures." "Comfort movies." We all have a mental rolodex of flicks that may not be terribly popular but, for one reason or another, they resonate in a very special way. Maybe you saw it at the right moment. Maybe you just see gold where everyone else sees feces. Whatever the case, these are the special favorites that you keep stashed away for sick days. Here are some of ours.
Long before Michael Crichton threatened park goers with T-rexes and Velociraptors, he directed "Westworld," his own script about Yul Brynner as a black-hatted robo-cowboy gone berserk. James Brolin played the heroic counterpart to his nerdy "Jurassic Park" counterpart portrayed by Jeff Goldblum, and Brolin's son Josh could have benefited from a re-examination of this horror-infused Western before filming next year's "Jonah Hex," as it cleverly splices science fiction and human/inhuman struggles into a classic Western framework.
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- Brian Warmoth
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Rare Movie Alert! James Bond Alumni In "Triple Cross" On TCM Tomorrow
25 August 2009 9:49 AM, PDT
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Turner Classic Movies (North America) is presenting a full day of Yul Brynner films tomorrow. Among them is the rarely-seen 1967 WWII spy thriller Triple Cross that pairs Brynner with a stellar cast including Christopher Plummer and Trevor Howard. The film is directed by Terence Young, who helmed the early James Bond classics and, intriguingly, the movie features three prominent Bond cast members: Thunderball leading lady Claudine Auger, Dr. No baddie Anthony Dawson and Goldfinger himself, Gert Frobe. The film has never been released on video in the USA. It airs at 3:30 Pm (Est) Incidentally, keep your video recorders in high gear because other Brynner gems showing throughout the day include Taras Bulba, Adios Sabata, The Magnificent Seven, The King and I, Kings of the Sun and Westworld.
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- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
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The Ten Megaton ToM: Twitch-o-Meter turns 10,000,000 part 0,011 (or “3”)
12 July 2009 5:38 PM, PDT
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When our Twitch-o-Meter column reached number fifty we did something cool: ten writers gave a list with five of their favorite directors, creating one huge Twitch-o-Meter which we lovingly called the Mega-ToM. However, the next big round number is already upon us: 128, which in binary is 10,000,000.
It’s a 10 megaton Mega-ToM!
Therefore this whole week will be devoted to a huge multi-article Twitch-o-Meter. And this time, the writers will give us their top 1,000 of favorite movies (which, thankfully, is only eight in non-binary…).
Third in line is our mysterious visitor from the far East: The Visitor!
The Chronological Failing Of My Fear Threshold
Or How 8 Horror Movies Gradually Made Me Lose My Nerve
My earliest memory of cinema is going to see Westworld with a bunch of kids from my neighbourhood when I was about 5. I remember till today how Yul Brynner’s face was melted by acid to reveal the circuitry underneath.
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Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (April 24, 2009)
23 April 2009 6:00 PM, PDT
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So in last Sunday’s much-discussed episode of Brothers & Sisters, Kevin and Scotty considered having a
threeway with Kevin’s oh-so-forward ex, Chad.
I didn’t mind that Kevin and Scotty ultimately decided not to go through
with it – that seems to fit their characters, after all.
But I was shocked that the writers managed to do a whole storyline about a gay
couple considering whether or not to have a threeway … without ever saying a
single interesting thing about a gay couple considering whether or not to have
a threeway!
No matter. It’s still enough of an excuse to declare this the “Threeway
Edition” of B.G.W.E!
Incest, “Fun Buddies,” And Teabagging, Oh
My!
Along with Brothers & Sisters’
potential threeway, the big news last week was when easily-manipulated Fox
viewers decided to protest the fact that President
Obama has already cut taxes for most taxpayers (while
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- AfterElton.com Staff
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"Wanna hear a story... city boy?": The Ten Best Horror Westerns
22 April 2009 8:34 AM, PDT
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Westerns. Horror films. Two great genres that go great together? You would think so. Westerns and horror films are, more than any American film genres I can think of, viscerally grounded in mortality, the vulnerability of human flesh and the primal drive of survival instinct. Whether facing wild animals or bloodthirsty monsters, cold-blooded gunfighters or psychotic madmen, roving bands of raiders or packs of zombies, the heroes of these films fight to live. "It feels like a natural connection. They're two of the most cinematic experiences that you have watching a movie," notes director J.T. Petty. He should know -- his film "The Burrowers," which was released on DVD yesterday, is the most recent and one of the most creative approaches to the horror western hybrid, a unsettling monster movie by way of "The Searchers."
Despite seeming ripe territory, there are relatively few horror westerns to speak of, but a
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- Sean Axmaker
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Multiple Personality Disorder Report
13 March 2009 9:46 AM, PDT
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[Editor's Note: Multiple Personality Disorder Reports are news blasts to let you know about the stuff that didn't make it to the news page but still had us talking behind the scenes]
#1: Gotham buys a Minotaur
Steven Sherrill's 2000 novel, "The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break," has been optioned bt Gotham Group with the hopes of turning it into a live action film. The book, which "centers on the mythical half-man, half-bull minotaur who was supposedly slain by Theseus 3,000 years ago and now lives a lonely life in a Wichita trailer park, making ends meet as a short-order cook in a rundown diner," has been adapted by Mike Jones. No director is attached yet
Sounds like it could be the makings of an American riff on Executive Koala or something. [Via: Variety]
#2: A World Without Women?
Louis Palma will be shooting an indie film starting around April 10th which should interest Quiet Earth readers as it's called World Without Women. Logline: "Looie and Jer, mid 30's children, discover along with the rest of the male population that all the women in the world
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