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Horror was so prevalent and popular in the early ‘80s that even the action genre wanted in on the…uh, action. Chuck Norris haiyah’ed a Michael Myers wannabe in Silent Rage (1982), so next up it was granite faced Charles Bronson’s turn to take on slashers with 10 to Midnight (1983), a sleazy yet fascinating trip through the mind of a serial killer. While it’s never as deep as it thinks it is, it’s smarter than it has any right to be.

Released in March, this Cannon production, co-distributed by MGM, recouped its 4.5 million plus a few million more at the box office. Certainly not Death Wish numbers, but it’s not really a Death Wish type of film (until it is). As for the critics, Mr. Ebert called it “a scummy little sewer of a movie”. He’s not completely right, though; the misogynistic male gaze is upended...

What’s the best true-story WW2 combat film for pure-grit, no-nonsense tanks ‘n’ bombs ‘n’ crazy mayhem action on a giant scale? This non-stop battle epic gets my vote. George Segal and Ben Gazzara’s infantry dogs are suitably tough, cynical and desperate, especially when they’re repeatedly sent into danger. The history is fairly accurate — there was indeed a race to seize the last bridge across the River Rhine.

The Bridge at Remagen

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Twilight Time

1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 117 min. / Street Date June 13, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95

Starring: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall, Peter Van Eyck, Hans Christian Blech, Bo Hopkins, Matt Clark, G&uunl;nter Meisner.

Cinematography: Stanley Cortez

Film Editors: William Cartwright, Harry Knapp, Marshall Neilan Jr.

Original Music: Elmer Bernstein

Written by Richard Yates, William Roberts, Roger Hirson

Produced by David L. Wolper

Directed by John Guillermin

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According to IMDb, Woody Woodpecker is coming to theaters in 2017 in his first ever movie. Which is odd, since we've heard little to nothing at all about it. Today, we have a look at the annoying bird courtesy of Imp Awards. This one-sheet is for international audiences, which has us wondering if this is even going to get a proper release on America shores.

The Woody Woodpecker movie is taking on an environmentally conscious theme, and will tackle social issues with a deft hand at the comedy fans have come to know and love. The plot finds the hyperactive red-head entering a turf war with a big city lawyer who wants to tear down his home. This is all in an effort to build a house to flip. From the poster, we'd assume that this is a fully animated CGI movie. But we'd be wrong, as it's listed as being...

Dolores Hart, Pamela Tiffin and Lois Nettleton are flight attendants aiming to snag three attractive, wealthy husbands right out of the air -- Karl Boehm, Hugh O'Brien and Karl Malden. There's more social comment in this 'coffee, tea or me' romantic comedy than can be found in a graduate thesis about the sexual habits of liberated stewardesses. And Hey, Frankie Avalon warbles the classy title tune! Come Fly with Me DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1963 / Color / 2:35 enhanced widescreen / 109 min. / Street Date June 30, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 18.49 Starring Dolores Hart, Hugh O'Brian, Karlheinz Bohm, Pamela Tiffin, Lois Nettleton, Karl Malden, Dawn Addams, Richard Wattis, Andrew Cruickshank, James Dobson, Lois Maxwell, John Crawford, Robert Easton, Maurice Marsac, George Coulouris, Ferdy Mayne. Cinematography Oswald Morris Film Editor Frank Clarke Original Music Lyn Murray Written by William Roberts from a book by Bernard Glemser Produced by Anatole De Grunwald Directed by Henry Levin

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

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For the second time this month, Rick Ross has had to take a trip to the Fayette County jail — only now the charges are far more serious. According to local news station Wsb-tv, both Ross (whose real name is William Roberts II) and his bodyguard were arrested in Georgia overnight on outstanding warrants for aggravated assaulted. The charges reportedly stem from an incident that happened two weeks ago and involves Ross and someone working on a property he purchased in Fayette County, whom he allegedly pistol-whipped. Both Ross and his bodyguard have been charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, and aggravated battery. The circumstances of some of those charges are unclear at this time. On June 10, Ross was also arrested for marijuana possession and charged with a misdemeanor. Update: Rick Ross has been denied bail and is currently being held in Fayette County Jail, reports Billboard. According to court records,...

Rick Ross' day got off to a rough start. The rapper (real name: William Roberts) and his bodyguard Nadrian James were arrested Wednesday morning at Ross' home in Fayette County, E! News can confirm. Both men were charged with aggravated battery and kidnapping, and Ross was hit with an additional charge of aggravated assault, Marshals' Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force supervisor Jim Joyner confirmed to E! News. Joyner confirmed that the 39-year-old rapper got into an altercation with someone on the property and allegedly pistol whipped him. Both Ross and James, 42, were arrested at the former's Fayetteville, Ga., home without incident. According to a press release from the Fayette County...

At first, he seems unsure. Hesitant, even. His voice is coming out metered, measured, and his reading feels more like recitation than performance. Then, something astounding happens: he hits dialogue, and everything ramps up. Voices, it seems, help Michael Kelly find his voice. For those used to listening to crime stories on audio, Kelly’s take on Joyland might be jarring. The narrators of Lawrence Block’s Matt Scudder series, for example – Alan Sklar, William Roberts, Mark Hammer – explore every word as a threat, pummeling headlong toward finales composed of shock and sadness (only Block himself, on Eight Million Ways to Die, seems to get to the deep sorrow of the character). On the other hand, the more stately readings of both Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series (Michael Prichard, who has taken on Tom Clancy’s techno-thrillers with the same endearing seriousness as John Irving’s The World According to Garp...

Just one day after Reebok dropped him as their spokesman, Rick Ross released an official apology for date rape lyrics appearing on the Rocko track, "U.O.E.N.O."

In the song, Ross raps, "Put molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it. I took her home and I enjoyed that. She ain't even know it."

On Thursday, the rapper posted a remorseful message on Twitter, saying, "I dont condone rape. Apologies for the #lyric interpreted as rape. #Boss," followed by, "Apologies to my many business partners,who would never promote violence against women. @ReebokClassics @ultraviolet."

After increased pressure for the brand to drop the "You the Boss" rapper, Reebok released a statement, saying, "Reebok holds our partners to a high standard, and we expect them to live up to the values of our brand. Unfortunately, Rick Ross has failed to do so. While we do not...

Saludos Amigos

Directed by Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, William Roberts

Written by Homer Brightman, Bill Cottrell, Dick Huemer, Joe Grant, Harold Reeves, Ted Sears, Webb Smith, Roy Williams, Ralph Wright

Considering Saludos Amigos in comparison with its follow-up, The Three Caballeros, is akin to analyzing the pregame to the Super Bowl. (Our guest, Jeff Heimbuch, may disagree but will surely appreciate comparing these two movies to such a titanic worldwide event.) I’m often very vocal about not enjoying Disney’s release strategy for some of their lesser animated films—or, if you like, films they consider to be lesser even if the fans of those films are legion—specifically how they combine films in a Blu-ray combo pack. If you like Pocahontas and want it on Blu-ray, great! You’re cool if the film is packaged with its direct-to-dvd sequel, yeah? Well, you don’t have a choice,...

Police have yet to turn up any surveillance video that captured the apparent attempted murder of rapper Rick Ross Monday morning, according to Wsvn.

Investigators returned to the scene of the drive-by shooting in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday, seeking any video record of the crime -- but the station reports they have so far come up empty-handed. According to CBS Miami, detectives don't even have a description of the shooter or shooters.

Ross was leaving the Floridian restaurant on Las Olas Boulevard around 5 a.m. Monday morning, having spent the previous evening celebrating his 37th birthday at Liv nightclub on Miami Beach.

But when the Miami-bred rapper drove off in his 2011 Rolls Royce, with rumored girlfriend fashion designer Shateria Moragne-el along for the ride, gunshots rang out, reportedly from a second vehicle.

In his attempt to escape the hail of bullets, Ross -- real name William Roberts -- turned onto a...

The “adult” Western – as it would come to be called – was a long time coming. A Hollywood staple since the days of The Great Train Robbery (1903), the Western offered spectacle and action set against the uniquely American milieu of the Old West – a historical period which, at the dawn of the motion picture industry, was still fresh in the nation’s memory. What the genre rarely offered was dramatic substance.

Early Westerns often adopted the same traditions of the popular Wild West literature and dime novels of the 19th and early 20th centuries producing, as a consequence, highly romantic, almost purely mythic portraits the Old West. Through the early decades of the motion picture industry, the genre went through several creative cycles, alternately tilting from fanciful to realistic and back again. By the early sound era, and despite such serious efforts as The Big Trail (1930) and The Virginian (1929), Hollywood Westerns were,...

Maybach Music boss is not a suspect nor is he being sought for questioning in a murder, police confirm to MTV News.

By Rob Markman

Rick Ross

Photo: Getty Images

After police found a dead body in front of a Miami Gardens home owned by Rick Ross, the Maybach Music boss' name began to pop up in connection to the killing, but an area detective confirmed to MTV News on Wednesday (February 29) that the rapper is not a suspect, nor is he being sought for questioning.

Miami Gardens officers responded to a 911 call at approximately 7 a.m. Et after reports of gun shots. When police arrived at the scene of the crime they found a dead body in the yard of a house owned by the rapper, whose real name is William Roberts. Though Ross owns the property, it is not where he resides. "He lives at a different location,...

There was no a-ha! moment, no seeing of the light, no epiphany. I’d loved movies since I was a kid, had been a buff since my early teens, but there was no one, shining instance of enlightenment where my relationship with film graduated to something — … Well, the kind of thing my Sound on Sight colleagues have been talking about this month with their “gateway” films. Instead, it was a cumulative experience for me; my road to that point was a long, winding, gradual one. Here and there along that road something would lodge in the ol’ gray matter, tickle at some deep place, until enough of those somethings gathered up over the years finally coalesced into a critical mass.

But I can tell you where that first turn in that road was; that first stop where I picked up that first something. I was six years old, it was...

The Movie Pool jumps on the bandwagon for the classic The Magnificent Seven on Blu-ray for the first time!

Blu-ray Specs

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Running Time: 128 minutes

Rating: Not rated

Audio: English 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio, English Mono 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles: English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired, French, Spanish

Special Features: "Guns for Hire: The Making of the Magnificent Seven" documentary, "Elmer Bernstein and The Magnificent Seven" featurette, "The Linen Book: Lost Images from The Magnificent Seven" featurette, Original theatrical trailers, still gallery.

Audio Commentary: With producer Walter Mirisch and actors James Coburn and Eli Wallach.

The Set-up

A group of gunfighters gets more than they bargained for when they head south to protect a town of farmers terrorized by a ruthless bandito (Eli Wallach) and his men.

Director: John Sturges

Screenplay: William Roberts

The Delivery

Based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven has earned,...

Rick Ross has been arrested at a hotel in Louisiana for illegal possession of marijuana, according to reports. Police spokesman Bill Goodin revealed that the rapper - real name William Roberts II - was arrested on Friday, and was released today with misdemeanour summons. Ross was arrested at the Hilton Hotel after police responded to a complaint about the smell of marijuana, reports ABC News. Police then found (more)...

TCM has put out some great vintage film collections in the last few years. The collections usually have a fair collection of winners and so-so contenders who need the better films to make them palatable and Esther Williams: Volume 2 is no exception. However, to the volume’s credit, it has a better ratio than most sets with 4 good to great films supporting 2 mediocre ones. The set could very well help reel in some younger viewers as the films in this volume have a surprisingly modern feel to them all. This one maybe good, but it might still qualify as “for collectors only”.

Thrill of a Romance (1945)

Directed by Richard Thorpe and written by Richard Connell and Gladys Lehman.

Co-starring Van Johnson and Henry Travers.

Summary: Two lovebirds get swept up in a whirlwind romance; one a girl looking for love and one a celebrated veteran, the two find their...