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A new reboot of a cult classic science fiction adventure series is coming to Netflix. Deadline reports that Land of the Lost, a 1970s kidvid favorite about a modern family stranded in a prehistoric wilderness, is getting a reboot courtesy of Netflix and Legendary Television. The short-lived series already inspired a reboot series in the 1990s, and a big-screen comedy adaptation starring longtime fan Will Ferrell.

The original series was the brainchild of Sid and Marty Krofft, a pair of Canadian TV auteurs who made a huge splash in kids' TV in the 1970s, with projects like Lidsville, Far Out Space Nuts, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, and H.R. Pufnstuf. Their work was characterized by slapstick humor, surreal puppet creatures, and low-budget chroma-key special effects; their shows have earned the duo a cult following among Generation X. Marty died in 2023, but Sid Krofft and Marty’s daughter,...

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Dalton Trumbo's antiwar novel "Johnny Got His Gun" was first published in 1938, and it followed the experiences of an American soldier who had been grievously injured in a violent shelling during World War I. The soldier, named Joe Bonham, lost his arms and legs in the explosion, as well as his lips, teeth, tongue, ears, and eyes. He breathes through a tracheotomy tube, strapped to a hospital bed. Joe is locked inside his own body, unable to communicate any of his thoughts. In his injured state — he knows what happened to him — Joe wants nothing more than to take his own life, but is unable to. All he can do is hammer out pleas for euthanasia in Morse Code by dropping his head on his pillow. A lot of the story involves flashbacks to Joe's childhood and teen years leading up to the war.

Nearly 49 years later, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws remains one of the most iconic classic thriller movies in cinematic history. As for the movie characters, it’s hard to imagine Jaws without Richard Dreyfuss’ portrayal of Matt Hooper. The sharp-witted marine biologist became one of the movie’s most memorable characters.

But according to Steven Spielberg, Dreyfuss was far from his first choice for the role. In fact, the movie almost had a very different Hooper as Spielberg initially eyed for other big actors. However, a little persuasion from Star Wars mastermind George Lucas and a lot of persistence.

Steven Spielberg at 2017 San Diego Comic Con | Credits: Gage Skidmore, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Steven Spielberg revealed how Richard Dreyfuss came got the role of Hooper in Jaws

In an interview excerpted from the book Spielberg: The First Ten Years by Laurent Bouzereau, via Vanity Fair, Steven Spielberg opened...

From April 4 to May 23, 2001, Comedy Central ran eight episodes of a 30-minute sitcom called "That's My Bush!," a sendup of the then-active George W. Bush administration. The premise of the show was as broad as possible. George W. Bush (Timothy Bottoms) was in the White House, but his life was more akin to that of an old-fashioned, 1980s-era workplace sitcom than that of a sitting president. There was a noisy, obnoxious laugh track paired with bright, even TV lighting, making the show look deliberately old-fashioned and artificial. Kurt Fuller played the buttoned-down killjoy Karl Rove, while Carrie Quinn Dolin played Laura Bush.

More than being a spoof of the Bush administration, however (and there was plenty to spoof), "That's My Bush!" was a satire of all-American sitcoms. Show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker (of "South Park" fame) merely used the White House as a backdrop to mock dated sitcom...

While many children of famous actors follow their parents into the profession, it is pretty rare that the child equals or surpasses the achievements of their parent. A few names come to mind: Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, Angelina Jolie. And Jeff Bridges definitely belongs on that list.

His father was the highly successful actor Lloyd Bridges, who appeared in over 100 films and starred in multiple TV series including the popular “Sea Hunt.” Jeff’s brother is the Emmy Award-winning actor Beau Bridges.

Jeff’s career had an auspicious start when he earned an Oscar nomination at age 22 for his second film “The Last Picture Show.” Still regarded as a classic, the film featured an all-star cast of experienced performers and introduced a bunch of new young actors such as Cybill Shepherd, Timothy Bottoms, Sam Bottoms and Bridges.

Bridges would continue to earn accolades from the Academy Awards, amassing seven nominations...

Since the birth of cinema, war movies have acted as powerful vehicles for delivering gut-wrenching anti-war messages exploring the deteriorating effects of conflict. While some films may present themselves as being anti-warfare, in the process, they often end up glorifying battle, and bloodshed looks like a heroic act to be lauded and praised. However, there have been some truly effective anti-war films that showcased the soulless, unnecessary, and inhumane nature of allowing citizens to fight and die for political causes from which they will not even benefit.

The greatest war movies of all time all echo themes around the need to end conflict, yet not all were entirely anti-war. Some of the most compelling anti-war movies were produced while conflicts were still ongoing and acted as pleas for those with the power to do so to end the needless violence and ensure soldiers were able to reunite with their families before facing unspeakable harm.

There's nothing quite like The Last Picture Show directed by Peter Bogdanovich, it was only his second feature and is now considered one of the greatest films of the 70s, for its deconstruction of the American Dream through its teen leads. It started the careers of many young actors, including Jeff Bridges, alongside Cybill Shepherd, Timothy Bottoms, and Randy Quaid. Striking a chord with audiences and critics alike, it's a stark, black-and-white filmed period piece set in the 50s.

It’s understandable that most movie and TV fans remember Maggie Smith for her dynamic work in the “Harry Potter” films and “Downton Abbey.” More recent and far more widely seen in their time, they are worthy examples of her outstanding work.

But unknown to even some of the most knowledgeable cinephiles is most of her screen work before the 1980s beyond her two Oscar wins (Best Actress for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and Supporting Actress for “California Suite”). Her passing at 89 represents a chance to look back at not only roles that conveyed her later brilliance but also, in some cases, present a broader range than what became the standard — though always with nuance and distinctiveness — Maggie Smith role of later years.

When reviewing her film career until at least 2008, it’s critical to remember that she was first and foremost a stage actor. She joined Laurence Olivier...

Spencer Milligan, who starred in the 1970s Saturday morning series Land of the Lost from Sid & Marty Krofft and was a regular guest star on TV into the late 1980s, has died. He was 86.

An obituary on the Huehns Funeral Home website said he died April 18 but did not provide details.

Born on September 10, 1937, in Oak Park, Il, Milligan was active in local theater during the 1960s before serving a tour in the Army. His screen career began with a small role as a head-change specialist in Woody Allen’s futuristic 1973 comedy, in which the filmmaker starred with Diane Keaton. He also appeared in the 1974 features The Man from Clover Grove and The Photographer, serving as an associate producer on the latter.

The following year, Milligan was cast as Rick Marshall in the Krofft brothers’ hybrid live-action/stop-motion sci-fi/adventure series Land of the Lost. It focused on Rick and...

Grounded in reality, The Last Picture Show offers a stark and somber look at growing up in a fading era of Americana. Characters reveal realistic regrets, desires, and disappointments in a small town where life doesn't necessarily get better with age. Unlike other coming-of-age films, The Last Picture Show portrays the brutal truths of youth and adulthood without melodrama.

Based on Larry McMurtry’s novel of the same name, The Last Picture Show is a wholly American heartbreaker. Rooted in a fading era when restless youth crossed unexpected paths with their listless elders, the film was a massive success upon its release in 1971. Earning eight Academy Award nominations and winning two Oscars, the film was championed by legendary film critics like Roger Ebert as a truly "Great Movie."

Over fifty years after it debuted in theaters, The Last Picture Show -- now available on 4K-uhd and Blu-Ray from the Criterion...

Every school has that certain teacher who is a bully, heartless and at times sadistic. Everyone must take their class, but no one finishes the course unscathed. Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) of Alexander Payne’s acclaimed comedy-drama “The Holdovers” is one such instructor. Set in 1970, “The Holdovers” revolves around the by-the-books classics professor teaching at the same New England boarding school he had attended. Hunham is hated by his students, as well as his fellow teachers. And he’s also in hot water, after he failed one of the school’s largest donor’s son in his class. During the Christmas break, he is forced to supervise the “holdovers — -the students who for various reasons must stay on campus. He ends up sharing the holidays with one troubled student (Dominic Sessa) whose mother recently remarried; and the cafeteria administrator (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) grieving her only son’s death in the Vietnam War.

While promoting the home video version of his historical blockbuster “Oppenheimer,” director Christopher Nolan recently stressed that it’s really the only way to go when it comes to watching his movies at home. Not only does he finely calibrate his films for the best home video experience (leading to the 4K Ultra HD version of the movie to sell out everywhere) but he stressed buying the movie on physical media means you can “put it on a shelf so no evil streaming service can come steal it from you.”

And while, yes, he’s joking, he is right about one thing: the only way you can insure that the movies you love will be around is by owning them on physical media. Thankfully the home video labels have been stepping up their game, with deluxe packages overflowing with extras and feature films presented in their best possible format.

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Marty Krofft, who with his brother Sid produced memorable kids shows “H.R. Pufnstuf” and “Land of the Lost” — as well as the 2009 feature based on the latter — has died. He was 86.

Krofft died of kidney failure Saturday in Los Angeles, Calif., a family representative told Variety.

Often referred to as the King of Saturday Mornings, Krofft and his brother also produced a number of primetime variety shows, including “Donny and Marie” and “Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters.”

Sid and Marty Krofft began their careers producing children’s television with “H.R. Pufnstuf,” a live-action program about a boy (played by British actor Jack Wild) in a fantastic land with a dragon for a friend and a witch — Witchiepoo, played by Billie Hayes — for an enemy; as conceptualized, the show followed the interactions between human actors; actors in colorful, oversized costumes; and life-size puppets with enormous heads.

The Kroffts were proudly...

Adapted from Larry McMurtry’s bittersweet 1966 novel of the same name by McMurtry and director Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show delineates the quiet, desperate lives of the citizens of Anarene, Texas, from November 1951 to October 1952. The film is a pure Janus-headed product of the New Hollywood. Bogdanovich pours the new wine of sexual frankness available to filmmakers after the inauguration of the MPAA ratings system into old bottles borrowed from the cellars of classic Hollywood cinema, namely those older films’ expressive visual grammar and obliquely suggestive dialogue.

As an erstwhile film critic and historian, Bogdanovich drew formal and technical inspiration from his years spent programming films from Hollywood’s Golden Age at MoMA. He also solicited advice from houseguest Orson Welles when it came to shooting the film in black and white, and employing long, unbroken takes rather than break up important scenes. As Welles reportedly put it:...

This month’s installment of Deep Cuts Rising features a variety of horror movies. Some selections reflect a specific day or event in March, and others were chosen at random.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

From dinosaurs to a killer clown, here are five hidden horror gems and deep cuts that you can check out in March 2023.

The Fantasist (1986)

Directed by Robin Hardy.

Despite her family’s mixed reaction to her decision, Moira Harris‘ sheltered but curious character moves to Dublin to be a teacher. There she becomes the next target of a serial killer who gradually escalates from phone calls to murder. The protagonist of The Fantasist eventually suspects her pushy American neighbor (Timothy Bottoms) to be the culprit.

While best known for directing The Wicker Man, and to a lesser extent The Wicker Tree,...

As 2022 comes to a close, we here at JoBlo.com would like to take a moment to pay tribute to some of the people who sadly passed away this year. Our deepest respect goes out to everyone in the industry we have lost, and our thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of those who died in 2022. These talented individuals will always be remembered for their impact on the world of film and television.

In Memory Of…

Peter Bogdanovich

When Peter Bogdanovich was twelve-years-old, he began keeping a record of every film he saw, even including reviews, a practice he kept up for decades, seeing as many as four hundred films a year. This sparked a love of movies and he was intent on becoming a director. Bogdanovich caught his break when he happened to strike up a conversation with Roger Corman at a screening, who quickly offered him a job.

Netflix is developing a new limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden,” Variety has confirmed.

The series, which is still in early development, will be written and executive produced by Zoe Kazan, whose grandfather, Elia Kazan, helmed the 1955 film adaptation of Steinbeck’s novel. Florence Pugh is attached to star in the series, though the character she will play remains unconfirmed. Anonymous Content and Endeavor Content will co-produce the series.

Published in 1952, Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” is set in California’s Salinas Valley over a period that stretches from the Civil War to the end of World War I. The epic novel tells the interconnected stories of the Hamilton family, an Irish immigrant family with nine children, and the Trask family, lead by the wealthy Adam Trask. The story eventually narrows its focus to center around the Trask family and the drama surrounding Adam, his wife...

“Don’t be afraid, it’s only friendly fire.”

Blue Underground will release William Lustig’s Uncle Sam (1996) 25th Anniversary on 4K Ultra HD June 21st . Check out this classic trailer

Despite a relatively short-lived career as a director, spanning 16 years and 8 films, William Lustig has had a major impact on genre cinema. While filming “making-of” features for Anchor Bay, Lustig formed Blue Underground and started to bring exploitation cinema to the home video market with high-quality DVDs loaded with special features. More than 20 years later, Blue Underground is still thriving and upping its game to include 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray releases. Blue Underground’s latest 4K release is Lustig’s very own Uncle Sam, available everywhere on June 21, 2022.

Master Sergeant Sam Harper (David Fralick) is tragically killed in a horrible accident in Kuwait after his helicopter is shot down by friendly fire. Sam’s charred remains are shipped back...

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Bronze Medal choice for Best Shot

The power of Peter Bogdanovich's unassuming breakout feature, The Last Picture Show (1971) sneaks up on you. It's often called a coming-of-age film which is not inaccurate but... coming to what? and of which age? It's mosaic of characters ranges in age from teenagers to senior citizens and at times it feels like they're not so much coming into something as never leaving it; They're lost souls in a ghost town. If you've never seen the film you might assume that a movie theater is a main character but not really. The theater is just one of the haunts that the central trio of high school seniors kill time at. They're less interested in the movie than in making out in the back row, anyway...

A fan favorite 90s slasher, William Lustig‘s All American horror movie Uncle Sam is getting a 4K Ultra HD upgrade from Blue Underground, we’ve learned this week. The 1996 slasher comes to 4K Ultra HD on June 21, 2022! Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show), Bo Hopkins (The Wild Bunch), William Smith (Fast Company), P.J. […]

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Most people question the intention behind doing a remake; is it for money (always), or so an IP won’t revert back to original ownership (sometimes), or is it to improve on an interesting concept but poor delivery (it’s happened before)? These are the normal scenarios. But then you have a legend like Tobe Hooper, who decides as the middle flick in a three-picture deal with Cannon Films, to do a sincere remake of Invaders from Mars (1986), the 1953 minor cult classic. Why? Because you can tell he genuinely loves the original, and he leaves enough Dr. Pepper fingerprints so you know you’re in Hooper Town.

Released in early June, Invaders lost money and wasn’t a critical success. Surprise! Unfortunately, most Hoopers’ aren’t built for the era they occupy; it’s not often his work was appreciated in his time.

Yet look at what he did in...

Peter Bogdanovich was born too late, but also at just the right time.

The 82-year-old film critic, historian, advocate and maker, who died Thursday, first blinked his eyes in 1939, the year Alfred Hitchcock moved to Hollywood, Mr. Smith went to Washington and John Ford made “Stagecoach.” He’d surely love to have worked during the 50-year “Golden Age” he identified as 1912-1962. And though he is most closely associated with the New Hollywood movement of the late ’60s and ’70s, his filmography feels anything but modern.

Bogdanovich’s two best films, “The Last Picture Show” (1971) and “Paper Moon” (1973) were shot in black and white decades after the format had gone out of fashion — the first a poignant elegy to a tumbleweed Texas town, as seen through the eyes of its restless teenage population, the other a Depression-era road movie about a handsome grifter (Ryan O’Neal) and his precocious traveling companion...

Peter Bogdanovich, the actor, film historian and critic-turned-director of such classics as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What’s Up, Doc? and Mask, died today of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82. Family members, who were by his side, said paramedics were unable to revive him.

His daughter, writer-director Antonia Bogdanovich, said of her father: “He never stopped working, and film was his life and he loved his family. He taught me a lot.”

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While he would be best known later for his deadpan turn as the shrink’s shrink in The Sopranos, Bogdanovich exploded onto the cinematic scene in 1971 with The Last Picture Show, a box office hit he wrote and directed that drew comparisons to Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane and earned the filmmaker his only two Oscar noms — for Best Director and Adapted Screenplay. With a...

The bleak 1971 drama is an enduring look at a dying small town that finds moments of humanity in among the sadness

As high-school senior Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) makes his way through main street in the north Texas town of Anarene in The Last Picture Show, the old-timers pelt him with complaints about his football team’s performance the night before, another in what appears to be a long line of embarrassing drubbings. The gentlest jab comes from Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson), who owns the few remaining businesses in Anarene and put money on the game, surely for reasons more sentimental than rational. “A few football teams have had some luck with tackling,” Sam tells Sonny. “Keeps the other team from scoring too often.”

Sonny doesn’t take it to heart. He’s a multi-sport athlete, probably only because the school doesn’t have enough boys to fill out the rosters.

Though there were vestiges of traditional Hollywood in 1971 with the releases of big musical “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” and an extravagant, albeit old-fashioned, historical epic “Nicholas & Alexander,” it was the untraditional fare that dominated the year with such films as Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange,” Alan J. Pakula’s “Klute,” Gordon Parks’ “Shaft” and John Schlesinger’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday.”

Two of the most lauded and influential films of the 1970s made their debuts 50 years ago and earned places in Oscars history: Peter Bogdanovich’s black-and-white study of a dying Texas town “The Last Picture Show” and William Friedkin’s pulsating crime thriller “The French Connection.”

Both directors had made movies before, but these productions made them critics darlings and each film changed the careers of their stars. “The French Connection’ won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, director, and actor for Gene Hackman. “The Last Picture Show...

Larry McMurtry, who won an Oscar for penning Brokeback Mountain, earned a nomination for The Last Picture Show and authored books that spawned Emmy winner Lonesome Dove and Best Picture Oscar winner Terms of Endearment, died Thursday of heart failure. He was 84. The news was confirmed to media outlets by family spokeswoman and 42West CEO Amanda Lundberg.

McMurtry — whose son is the singer-songwriter James McMurtry — won the Pulitzer Prize for writing Lonesome Done, which became a popular 1989 CBS miniseries and spawned a sequel and a syndicated series, and was awarded the 2014 National Humanities Medal by President Obama.

McMurtry’s 1975 book Terms of Endearment became the 1983 film from writer-director-producer James L. Brooks. Starring MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels and John Lithgow, the pic was a commercial smash and led all films with 11 Oscar noms. Along with Best Pictrure, it earned Academy Awards for Shirley MacLaine, Nicholson and...

Bruce Mallen, a Canadian film producer who pioneered studies in the economics of the movie industry and led the revitalization of Culver City’s historic studio district in the 1980s, has died. He was 83.

Mallen died Friday in Beverly Hills of a heart attack, his daughter-in-law Rebecka Biejo announced. He also battled Alzheimer’s disease and had a recent bout with Covid-19.

The Montreal native produced the 1981 movies The High Country, starring Timothy Bottoms, and Heartaches, starring Margot Kidder; executive produced Paradise (1982), featuring Phoebe Cates; and produced Doin’ Time, starring Jeff Altman.

He also served as vice chairman of the Fort ...

Bruce Mallen, a Canadian film producer who pioneered studies in the economics of the movie industry and led the revitalization of Culver City’s historic studio district in the 1980s, has died. He was 83.

Mallen died Friday in Beverly Hills of a heart attack, his daughter-in-law Rebecka Biejo announced. He also battled Alzheimer’s disease and had a recent bout with Covid-19.

The Montreal native produced the 1981 movies The High Country, starring Timothy Bottoms, and Heartaches, starring Margot Kidder; executive produced Paradise (1982), featuring Phoebe Cates; and produced Doin’ Time, starring Jeff Altman.

He also served as vice chairman of the Fort ...

Peter Bogdanovich’s first impression of Cloris Leachman was nothing like the lonely housewife she played in “Last Picture Show.”

The director recalled his first meeting with Leachman, who died Wednesday at 94, when he was casting “The Last Picture Show.”

“One of the producers was Bob Rafaelson. I said, ‘I don’t know any 30 or 40ish women.’ So he made me a list with Cloris and Ellen Burstyn and some other women,” Bogdanovich recalls. “She came in with two or three of her kids, they were very noisy and obstreperous and she was dressed very casually. She was completely wrong for the part, I thought.”

But when she started to read the script, “She was completely different,” he says. “She gave a wonderful performance right away. I think I cast her right then, I didn’t see anybody else.”

Leachman never forgot a difference of opinion she had with the...

Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman’s work ethic and versatility were only exceeded by her love of basking in the showbiz spotlight. The legacy she leaves her fans after dying this week at the age of 94 is immense, as is her share of trophies that she earned over the course of her career that continued up to 2020.

Her path to fame started when she was a Miss America contestant in 1946 as Miss Illinois. That led to a scholarship under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City. She would make her film debut in Robert Aldrich’s disturbing film noir in which private eye Mike Hammer gives a lift to Leachman’s hitchhiker Christina, who has escaped a mental hospital wearing only a trench coat. She is duly tortured to death by a gang of men and her demise haunts the rest of the movie.

She paid her dues...

As Twitter tributes rolled in after Cloris Leachman’s death today, she was most remembered for a comedy career which lasted decades, cemented by iconic roles in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Phyllis” in the 1970s all the way up to last year’s “The Croods: A New Age.” But Leachman’s dramatic performance in Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 masterpiece “The Last Picture Show” not only earned her a supporting actress Oscar, it cemented her as one of the greatest actors of her generation.

The quiet heart of an indelible coming-of-age story, Leachman plays Ruth Popper, a lonely middle-aged housewife who finds solace in an affair with high school senior Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), the film’s protagonist. Mining deep sympathy from a character whose actions could earn her deep scorn from her neighbors in the small Texas town of Anarene, Ruth finds an escape from her closeted high school coach husband in Sonny’s arms,...

Academy Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman has died at the age of 94. The news was originally broken by TMZ who reported the actress passed away of natural causes on Tuesday night at her home in Encinitas, California. Leachman boasted nearly 300 credit in film and television, throughout her career, making memorable turns in “The Last Picture Show,” “Young Frankenstein,” “The Twilight Zone,” and “Raising Hope.”

Leachman was born in Des Moines, Iowa on April 30, 1926. She started acting as a teenager, and after graduating high school she enrolled at Northwestern University in its School of Education. Her classmates included fellow comics Paul Lynde and Charlotte Rae. In 1946, Leachman participated in the Miss America pageant where she placed in the top 16. She used the scholarship she won to attend the famed Actors Studio in New York City, learning under acclaimed director Elia Kazan.

It was quickly after working with Kazan that Leachman started working on Broadway,...

Cloris Leachman, the Oscar-winning actress known for “The Last Picture Show” and “Young Frankenstein” and who had an equally long career on television in shows like “Phyllis,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Facts of Life,” has died. She was 94.

Leachman died in her sleep Tuesday at her home in California of natural causes, her manager told TheWrap.

Leachman’s career has spanned decades, and in that time she won eight Emmys from 22 nominations, setting records for both wins and nominations at the time, while still holding the record for most wins tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Some of her other long-running TV roles have included “Raising Hope,” “A Brand New Life,” “The Ellen Show,” “Lassie” and many more. And on film she’s been seen more recently in “Spanglish,” “I Can Only Imagine,” and she lent her voice to both of “The Croods” animated films, including most recently the sequel from late last year.

Golden Anniversaries, which is co-presented by Cinema St. Louis (Csl) and the St. Louis Public Library, features classic films celebrating their 50th anniversaries. This fourth edition of the event will highlight films from 1971.

Because in-person screenings remain problematic during the pandemic, Cinema St. Louis will hold free online conversations on the films, with people watching the films on their own but gathering virtually to discuss them.

Film critics, film academics, and filmmakers will offer introductory remarks and then participate in discussions about the films. In addition to a fine selection of St. Louis critics, Golden Anniversaries will feature several experts from elsewhere.

The conversations will be offered as free livestreams at 7:30 Pm on the second Monday of every month in 2021 except November, when the St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) hopes to feature several in-person Golden Anniversaries selections.

The first four discussions are already scheduled:

Jan. 11: Peter Bogdanovich...

**Coming to Drive-Ins & Theaters on October 2; Available on Digital and On Demand on October 20** Written and Directed by Aaron Wolf Co-written by Timothy Nuttall Produced by Andrew Kappel and Timothy Nuttall Starring Timothy Bottoms (Golden Globe Nominee), Aaron Wolf, Graham Greene (Academy Award Nominee) Tiffany Shepis and Max Perlich MPAA Rated …

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"His eyes. I'll never forget that look in his eyes." 1091 Pictures has unveiled an official trailer for Tar, an indie monster horror film from filmmaker Aaron Wolf (of LDUniversity). For 40,000 years, a long forgotten wetland teemed with ancient creatures, but now all that’s left is a pit of hot, sticky tar surrounded by a vast urban landscape. For Barry Greenwood and his son Zach, there's not too much left of their family business either. With the city's subway expanding under their feet and their office building slated for demolition, Barry, Zach and their employees are forced to shut down their shop and move out. But when something primal is awoken by the underground construction, a night of somber packing becomes a desperate fight for survival. Starring Timothy Bottoms, Aaron Wolf, Graham Greene, and Max Perlich. There's no real shots of the monster found in this trailer, probably for...

1091 Pictures has unveiled a new trailer for Tar. During a normal Halloween season, we would have some major studio horror flicks competing for dollars at the box office. This year, Halloween Kills was supposed to be among them. But 2020 is no typical year. Fear not though, as genre lovers will still have options. In this case, we have a new creature feature from filmmaker Aaron Wolf, who is taking some inspiration from real life.

Tar draws its inspiration from the famed Los Angeles La Brea Tar Pits. The movie posits that in these pits lies an ancient secret. A creature that is awakened by underground construction and turns five peoples' last night together into an ugly one. The studio will be bringing the movie to drive-ins early next month before later making it available via digital retailers, for those who would prefer to enjoy it from the comfort of home.

1091 Pictures has picked up North American distribution rights to Tar, and indie thriller that it plans on releasing with exclusive theatrical run targeting drive-in theaters starting in early October followed by a digital rollout October 20. Timothy Bottoms, Aaron Wolf, Tiffany Shepis, Max Perlich and Graham Greene star. Wolf directed the film, set in the murky depths of Los Angeles’ world-famous La Brea Tar Pits wherein lies an ancient secret – a creature that, awakened by subway construction, emerges to terrorize its unsuspecting victims in a desperate fight for survival. Howling Wolf Productions partners Aaron Wolf and Tim Nuttall wrote the screenplay and produced. The deal was negotiated by 1091 Pictures’ Emma Manfredi and Sam Curphey for the filmmaker.

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Filmmaker Jim Klock (Green Book) has a new feature. Slayed, an indie horror described as a cross between Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silent Night, Deadly Night, marks the second installment of a three-picture...

Shudder has a packed August lineup that should excite any horror fan, including exclusive premieres, classic titles, and special events. Here's a look at their offerings:

From the Press Release:

Host (premieres Thursday, July 30)

Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance over Zoom during lockdown but get far more than they bargain for as things quickly go wrong. Host was shot remotely during quarantine and features practical scares, stunts, and surprises, all filmed by the actors in their own homes. Director Rob Savage (Dawn of the Deaf) never set foot in the same room as his actors at any point during production and instead directed them remotely. Starring: Haley Bishop (Deep State), Radina Drandova (Dawn of the Deaf), Edward Linard (The Rebels), Jemma Moore (Doom: Annihilation), Caroline Ward (Stalling It) and Emma Louise Webb (The Crown). A Shudder Original (Also available on Shudder Canada and Shudder UK)

LA Llorona (premieres Thursday,...

Shudder continues its push to bring the latest and greatest horror movies to their streaming platform. Today, we have official word that Color Out of Space and The Shed have been acquired, with plans to premiere on the service later this year:

"June 3, 2020 — Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced that it has acquired exclusive U.S. streaming rights for Richard Stanley’s Color Out Of Space starring Nicolas Cage (Mandy), Joely Richardson (“The Rook”) and Madeleine Arthur (“Snowpiercer”). Shudder also announced the acquisition of exclusive U.S. streaming rights for The Shed, the sophomore feature from writer/director Frank Sabatella (Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet), starring Jay Jay Warren (“Bosch”), Cody Kostro (“City on a Hill”), Sofia Happonen (Woman of a Certain Age), Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction), Siobhan Fallon Hogan (Men in Black) and Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show). Both...

Exclusive: Genre-driven streaming service Shudder has acquired the U.S. streaming rights for both the Richard Stanley-directed sci-fi horror Color Out of Space as well as Frank Sabatella’s vampire pic The Shed. Both pics, which are from Rjle Films, are set to debut on Shudder in the U.S. later this year.

“We’re thrilled to be bringing Shudder members Stanley’s masterful adaptation of one of H.P. Lovecraft’s most influential stories—as well as another unforgettable Nicolas Cage performance—and Sabatella’s inventive new take on the vampire genre,” said Shudder General Manager Craig Engler. “The first half of 2020 has been the most successful in Shudder history, and these two great films will be part of an already-strong second half of the year, alongside titles like Scare Package, The Beach House, La Llorona, Scare Me and our upcoming original documentary on the history of Queer Horror.

Stars: Frank Whaley, Timothy Bottoms, Siobhan Fallon, Jay Jay Warren, Cody Kostro, Sofia Happonen | Written and Directed by Frank Sabatella

As an orphan living with his abusive grandfather, life sucks for Stan (Jay Jay Warren). But he’s got it better than his best friend Donmer who regularly needs defending against the school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside his tool shed, he tries to battle the demon alone until Donmer (Cody Kostro) comes up with a far more sinister plan.

Part 976-Evil, part Fright Night, The Shed is something of a combination of old-school 80s monster horror and more modern “woke” horror, dealing with not only the effects having a vampire in your shed can have on your mental health but also how going to school with bullying assholes can effect your mental health too! Though instead of dealing with those effects, the...

Tormented at home and at school, a troubled teenager faces new challenges when a recently infected blood-sucker holes up at the bottom of the garden

Orphaned teenager Stan (Jay Jay Warren) has been forced to live with his abusive grandfather Ellis in a house on the edge of some nowheresville. At school, he and his slightly weedier friend, Dommer (Cody Kostro), are regularly bullied by a jock thug (Chris Petrovski) who, just to rub salt in the wounds, has a thing going with Roxy (Sofia Happonen), the girl Stan has had a crush on for years.

Into this classic teen-drama set up, writer-director Frank Sabatella injects a goofy horror element: a newly infected vampire (Frank Whaley), desperate to avoid burning sunlight, holes himself up in the shed at the bottom of Stan’s garden and starts picking off every creature that comes near, starting with an unfortunate alsatian dog.

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Stars: Frank Whaley, Timothy Bottoms, Siobhan Fallon, Jay Jay Warren, Cody Kostro, Sofia Happonen | Written and Directed by Frank Sabatella

As an orphan living with his abusive grandfather, life sucks for Stan (Jay Jay Warren). But he’s got it better than his best friend Donmer who regularly needs defending against the school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside his tool shed, he tries to battle the demon alone until Donmer (Cody Kostro) comes up with a far more sinister plan.

Part 976-Evil, part Fright Night, The Shed is something of a combination of old-school 80s monster horror and more modern “woke” horror, dealing with not only the effects having a vampire in your shed can have on your mental health but also how going to school with bullying assholes can effect your mental health too! Though instead of dealing with those effects, the characters...

Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, will release The Shed on January 7th, 2020 on DVD and Blu-ray. Written and Directed by Frank Sabatella (Blood Night), the film stars Jay Jay Warren (Bosch), Cody Kostro (City on a Hill), Sofia Happonen (Woman of a Certain Age), Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction), Siobhan Fallon Hogan (Men in Black) and Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture […]

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As Jeff Bridges celebrates his 70th birthday on December 4, 2019, we offer you a photo gallery tour above of his 20 greatest film performances, ranked from worst to best. Our list includes “The Big Lebowski,” “Starman,” “The Last Picture Show,” “The Fisher King,” “Crazy Heart” and more.

While many children of famous actors follow their parents into the profession, it is pretty rare that the child equals or surpasses the achievements of their parent. A few names come to mind: Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, Angelina Jolie. And Bridges definitely belongs on that list.

SEEJeff Bridges to receive the 2019 Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes

His father was the highly successful actor Lloyd Bridges, who appeared in over 100 films and starred in multiple TV series including the popular “Sea Hunt.” Jeff’s brother is the Emmy Award-winning actor Beau Bridges.

Jeff’s career had an auspicious start when he earned an...

Directed and penned by Frank Sabetella, The Shed centers on Stan (Jay Jay Warren) a teenager who discovers a vampire (Frank Whaley) who’s living in the backyard of his grandfather’s (Timothy Bottoms). Having a creature trapped inside the shed becomes a nightmare experience for Stan, but his bullied best friend Dommer (Cody Kostro) sees the [...]

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Rlje Films has acquired Us rights to the horror film The Shed. Written and directed by Frank Sabatella (Blood Night), the film stars Jay Jay Warren (“Bosch”), Cody Kostro (“City on a Hill”), Sofia Happonen (Woman of a Certain Age), Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction), Siobhan Fallon Hogan (Men in Black) and Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show). Rlje Films …

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Rlje Films has acquired Us rights to the horror film The Shed. Written and directed by Frank Sabatella (Blood Night), the film stars Jay Jay Warren (“Bosch”), Cody Kostro (“City on a Hill”), Sofia Happonen (Woman of a Certain Age), Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction), Siobhan Fallon Hogan (Men in Black) and Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show). Rlje Films will release The Shed in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD on November 15th, 2019. “We are […]

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What if you discovered a vampire hiding out on your property? That's the question at the center of Frank Sabatella's The Shed, which has been acquired for Us distribution by Rlje Films ahead of its world premiere at Sitges International Film Festival.

The Shed is slated for a theatrical, VOD, and Digital HD release on November 15th from Rlje Films. Below, we have the official press release with additional details on the film, as well as another image from The Shed:

Press Release: Los Angeles, Sept. 25, 2019 – Rlje Films has acquired Us rights to the horror film The Shed. Written and directed by Frank Sabatella (Blood Night), the film stars Jay Jay Warren (“Bosch”), Cody Kostro (“City on a Hill”), Sofia Happonen (Woman of a Certain Age), Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction), Siobhan Fallon Hogan (Men in Black) and Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show). Rlje Films will release The Shed...