Posts Tagged ‘The Doors’
Film Review – Cruella
What a strange decision it was to make an origin story about Cruella de Vil. Her first onscreen appearance was in Disney’s One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), in which she (voiced by Betty Lou Gerson) was a chain smoking, diabolical villain who wanted to murder and…
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An Appreciation – Apocalypse Now
The production of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) has become almost as infamous as the film itself. Hot off the successes of The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974), and The Conversation (1974), Coppola had turned into one of the major faces of…
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Film Review – Straight Outta Compton
Young talent, dreams of stardom, accelerated rise to fame, sex, drugs, a fall from grace, a saving redemption. The steps of a musical biopic are a tried and true formula, as we’ve witnessed in Walk the Line (2005) and Ray (2004). In that way, F.…
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