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So apparently the American government dabbled in genetic testing, impregnating the perfect host, Mary Ann Benedict, with the combined (somehow) sperm of 6 different fathers, each contributing traits that together would make the perfect child. But what resulted was a … Continue reading →

Her husband, John Travolta, said in an Instagram post that his wife of 28 years died after a two-year battle. Continue reading → via Kelly Preston, actor and wife of John Travolta, dies at 57 from breast cancer — Global News

A very heavy tribute to the American Actress Kelly Kamalelehua Smith who died Sunday at age 57. The popular American actress and model popularly known as Kelly Preston had featured in more than sixty television and film productions. Preston delivers … Continue reading →

Young innocent love gets the crime noir treatment in my review for They Live by Night (1948) via They Live by Night (1948) Innocent Love, Crime, On The Run, Film Gris & Marie Bryant — Wolfmans Cult Film

(Marlon Brando died on this day, the 1st of July, in 2004, at the age of 80) If there was ever an actor who captured, both in their screen personas and their own life, the frustration and anger at a … Continue reading →

Following The Mechanic in 1972, a film that pitted an aging hitman playing a game of cat and mouse with his young protege, director Michael Winner returned to a similar theme with this espionage thriller. The plot deals with an … Continue reading →

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. W. C. Fields in My Little Chickadee I’d buy that for a dollar! Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars Somebody blows their … Continue reading →

Today, as part of our “Kazan Redux” series, we’re going to re-review director Elia Kazan’s eighth film, “Viva Zapata!” This movie has always been one of my least-favorite of Kazan’s nineteen projects, but as I re-watched it for this re-review, … Continue reading →

The popular idols of our post-modern era are tolerance, plurality, and relativism. Tolerance and plurality can be excellent guiding principles in some circumstances, but NOT when essential truth is at stake. We have only one authority, God’s Word, and only … Continue reading →

Today, as part of our “Kazan Redux” series, we’re going to re-review director Elia Kazan’s ninth film, “Man on a Tightrope.” I enjoyed re-watching the film for this re-review and appreciate it a bit more each time through. The review … Continue reading →