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The Film Detective Brings a Celebration of Feel-Good Films in May Cinedigm announced today that the Company is bringing a spring of feel-good films to The Film Detective, its classic media streaming network and film archive that restores and distributes classic films for todays cord-cutters. Focusing on music, romance, comedy, and the light-hearted side of cinema, The Film Detective will feature Feel-Good Fridays, every Friday in May at 8PM ET. Films will include Fred Astaire and Jane Powells...

Eddie Gene Reeves, 73, of Brownwood, passed away Tuesday, March 4, 2021. A visitation with family will be held at Heartland Funeral Home, Friday, March 7, 2021 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. A funeral service will be held in the Heartland Funeral Home Chapel at 2:00 PM, Saturday, May 8, 2021. Eddie Gene Reeves was born May 24, 1947 in Odessa, Texas to Robert Lee and Irma Gene Edwards. Eddie attended high school in Comanche where he loved to play football and he continued to love football in his passion...

--Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" It is the last line, "Well, Im the only one here," that never gets quoted. It is the truest line in the film. Travis Bickle exists in "Taxi Driver" as a character with a desperate need to make some kind of contact somehow--to share or mimic the effortless social interaction he sees all around him, but does not participate in. The film can be seen as a series of his failed attempts to connect, every one of them hopelessly wrong. He asks a girl out on a date, and ...

John Wayne made 142 movies in his career, mostly westerns and war films. When actor John Wayne visited American soldiers in Vietnam in the summer of 1966, he was warmly welcomed. As he spoke to groups and individuals, he was presented gifts and letters from American and South Vietnamese troops alike. This was not the case during his USO tours in 1942 and ’43. According to author Garry Wills’ 1998 book, “John Wayne’ America: the Politics of Celebrity,” the actor received a chorus of bo...

Screenshot: YouTube Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With the release of Gia Coppola’s new movie, Mainstream , we’re highlighting other work from the extended Coppola family. Advertisement Birdy (1984) One of Nicolas Cage’s trademarks as an actor is dedication: He chomped on an actual cockroach in Vampire’s Kiss, for example, and filmed himself drunk to perfect his m...

Eddie Gene Reeves, 73, of Brownwood, passed away Tuesday, March 4, 2021. A visitation with family will be held at Heartland Funeral Home, Friday, March 7, 2021 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. A funeral service will be held in the Heartland Funeral Home Chapel at 2:00 PM, Saturday, May 8, 2021. Eddie Gene Reeves was born May 24, 1947 in Odessa, Texas to Robert Lee and Irma Gene Edwards.  Eddie attended high school in Comanche where he loved to play football and he continued to love football in his passi...

Exclusive Interview: Michael Paré on How the Opioid Crisis Led to His Villainous Role in PAINKILLER Painkiller, Michael Paré decided it was worth playing the villain this time around because Mark Savage’s movie actually has something to say. After losing his daughter to the opioid epidemic, a broken man (Bill Oberst Jr.) becomes an underground radio personality and a masked twilight killer who starts to take revenge on those responsible for her death. In the past, Paré has played iconic c...

Where Are the Osama bin Laden Movies? FILE - In this 1998 file photo made available on March 19, 2004, Osama bin Laden is seen at a news conference in Khost, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File) -- The Associated Press 3 May 2021 Sept. 11, 2001, is a date that defines American history, maybe the most impactful day since the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. For some reason, storytellers have avoided telling the story of the man who led those attacks. There are only two movie...

These Are the 100 Best 90s Movies By Jason Kessler, Stacker News On 5/3/21 at 8:00 PM EDT The 1990s represent a magical decade in pop culture history. The O.J. Simpson trial, gangster rap, Must See TV, grunge music, and Friends dominated water cooler conversations, while the internet was just beginning to grab the attention of the world and hit college computer labs. While all of this was happening, incredible movies from big-budget blockbusters to quiet love stories were being released nea...

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