Category Archives: Classic Movies

A Few Good Men (1992) Jack Nicholson: ‘You Can’t Handle The Truth!’

Source:Movie Clips– Jack Nicholson with one of his greatest lines and roles. You can also see this post at The Daily Times, on Blogger. “Lt. Kaffee’s (Tom Cruise) search for the truth hits a roadblock in Col. Jessep (Jack Nicholson). Warning: … Continue reading

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Movie Clips: Airplane! (1980)

Source:The New Democrat  When I think of the 1970s,  I think of a depressing decade that got better as the culture, entertainment and fashion improved. We went from hippy culture and bellbottoms to flares in the early and mid 1970s … Continue reading

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Comedy Trailers: Caddyshack (1988)

Source:The New Democrat  I’ve never seen the original  Caddyshack movie in its entirety.  Not because I haven’t wanted to or had the time.  The bits and pieces I have seen have never compelled me to see the whole movie.  Despite … Continue reading

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Tony Baretta: Myra Breckinridge (1970) Starring Raquel Welch

Source:The New Democrat  Myra Breckinridge may be the best movie that ever flopped at the box office.  It lost more than the 1962 New York Mets who lost something like 120 games that season.  I don’t believe the movie made … Continue reading

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Movie Clips: Airport (1975)

Source:The New Democrat  To understand Airport 1975 you have to understand the times when the movie was made and the 1970s as a whole.  People were into this type of disaster movie.  Disaster movies were popular in this decade.  There’s … Continue reading

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Flanagan: Network (1976)

Source:The New Democrat  Anyone who’s interested in modern network news should watch the movie Network from 1976.  It’s almost forty years old now and except for the modern technology, the new players and the new stories they’d be hard pressed … Continue reading

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Movie Clips: Heartbreak Ridge (1986) Starring Clint Eastwood

Source:The New Democrat  Heartbreak Ridge is my favorite Clint Eastwood movie and that is saying something because there might be ten of his movies that I love, including Magnum Force, Dirty Harry, The Enforcer, The Gauntlet, Pink Cadillac, Thunderbolt and … Continue reading

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Movie Clips: Grumpy Old Men Official (1993) Trailer

Source:The New Democrat  What else do two lonely grumpy old men who also happen to be played by one of the best comedy teams of all time,Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, need more than Ann Margret. But that is exactly … Continue reading

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TCM: The Last of Sheila (1973)

Source:TCM– the cast from The Last of Sheila. “An eccentric movie producer-gamester invites six film industry friends to his yacht to play out one of his games, the goal of which is to reveal which of them killed his beloved, … Continue reading

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Dame Elizabeth Taylor: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Starring Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with the great Taylor/Burton combo is supposed to be a drama but  I always laugh throughout this movie, which I’ve seen now four or five times and saw again over the weekend. I’ve been thinking … Continue reading

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