Tag: The Alamo
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John Wayne’s Oscar-Nominated Movie Was Remade and Completely Bombed
Ever since the early days of cinema, filmmakers have turned to inspiring stories from history as a source of inspiration. Classic films like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Cleopatra, How The West Was Won, and Lawrence of Arabia took important historical events and used them as the basis for dramatic storytelling. Among the most popular “epics” of this…
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The Alamo Drafthouse LA Is Hosting A Movie Mash-Up Sketch Comedy Show And You’re Invited
Comedian Ian Abramson is about to become every movie fanatic’s favorite funny man. Now, I don’t know the guy personally, but I caught his appearance on “Conan,” where he performed most of his set while wearing a shock collar and allowing a random audience member to shock him if they didn’t find the joke funny.…
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With ‘The Little Things,’ John Lee Hancock Wrote a Script So Dark Even He Wasn’t Ready to Direct It
If “The Little Things” seems like a movie from another time, it is. John Lee Hancock wrote the script 28 years ago, back when he wrote the Kevin Costner vehicle “A Perfect World” for director Clint Eastwood. Steven Spielberg was interested, but found the drama about the fight to find an L.A. serial killer too…
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‘The Eight Hundred’ Review: Blockbuster Chinese War Epic Delivers Imax-Scale Spectacle
Four days feels like an eternity in “The Eight Hundred,” mainland Chinese writer-director Guan Hu’s monumental, if sometimes unwieldy epic interpretation of the courageous defense of a warehouse by the Chinese Nationalist Army in October 1937. For those with little knowledge of the Sino-Japanese War, the bombardment of facts, action and characters in the 147-minute…