Covering Movies, Television and Other Life Altering Issues
Young Sheldon, Frasier comeback?, New Charlie’s Angels, Stanley Kubrick, Mission:Impossible – Fallout, Teen Titans Go! to the movies, Hot Summer Nights, Puzzle, Our House.
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The fall season for NBC in the 1978-79 season was a disaster. It was such a wreck that virtually of their fall debuts were gone by the time January rolled around. However, hope was on the horizon. For the last place network, they had an ace up their sleeve that they could not wait to play. That was called Supertrain, a super expensive, super marketed, super show that couldn’t miss. Until it did. The failure of Supertrain is of legendary proportions. A failure that all other giant television failures would become measured against. Was it really that expensive? Was it really that bad? And did it really almost bankrupt NBC? We talk to Supertrain Superfan Tony Cook to sort out the truth.
Visit Tony’s Supertrain website here.
So long, Sir Darryl, RIP Steve Ditko, Lin-Manuel Miranda directs, Live Action Rugrats, Equalizer II, Momma Mia: Here We Go Again!, Unfriended: Dark Web, Blindspotting, McQueen.
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In 1977 actor Cliff Robertson received a notice in the mail saying he owed taxes a $10,000 payment he received from Columbia Pictures. The only problem was he hadn’t worked for Columbia Pictures in the previous year.
What followed uncovered embezzlement, a corporate power struggle, and the blackballing of the man who started it all and would not stop talking about it.
Emmy Nominations, More RoboCop, Black Widow, Skyscraper, Hotel Transylvania 3, Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot, Shock and Awe, Eighth Grade.
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New episode of The Industry is out!
Director William Richert had a dream set up for his first feature film. It was based on a new popular novel from the author of The Manchurian Candidate, he had a hot leading man in Jeff Bridges, and he had an all-star supporting cast made of up Oscar winners, legendary character actors, and one bonafide member of Hollywood royalty. What could go wrong? As it turns out, everything! William Richert helps tell this story that involves shotguns, drug dealers, and a repossessed mink coat.
Visit William Richert’s homepage here.
MoviePass surcharges, Sony releases a movie on accident, Ant Man and the Wasp, The First Purge, Sorry To Bother You, Firework, Whitney, Bleeding Steel.
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After earning massive success in the early 1970’s with the movies The French Connection and The Exorcist, William Friedkin could call his own shots. For his next movie he decided on a remake of the 1953 French thriller The Wages of Fear. What started out as a small budgeted movie turned ballooned into a never […]
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