Jon Donahue here, sitting in my hotel room in Berlin (that’s in Germany). They are low key on Halloween around here, so I have to make Halloween my own this year…and by that I mean decorating my room with orange pumpkin lights that I found at the mall and pop in some good scary flicks. […]
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THE MIGHTY MACS, A SLAM DUNK
October 20th, 2011 
John Delia We’ve had a bevy of sports true story films over the years and in most all cases, even if you know who won, they are all inspirational. This is the case of The Mighty Macs, a basketball account of a small women’s parochial college so obscure that I had never heard of it before seeing […]
Posted in MAJOR MOTION PICS, MOVIES 
Tags: Inspirational, Rated G, Sports, Women's College Basketball. 
No Comments »Ain’t Nothing Like The Real THING Baby…
October 19th, 2011 In The Norm The Thing – alien depression, yet again. I saw the newest installment of The Thing on Sunday and much like a Twin Bing does, it fell short. If you have ever eaten on of those pink balls of hell, you know what I speak of. The 2011 The Thing was CGI and CGI creatures are […]
Getting Our Feet Wet With The POOL BOYS
October 16th, 2011 AllisonFilms It’s not every day one is able to tell a taxi driver “take us to the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, we’re covering the red carpet tonight.” While this would be rare for anyone to say, it’s an especially exciting opportunity for two freshmen film production majors at USC who came here just two months ago from […]
THE THING, a Prequel or a Sequel?
October 13th, 2011 John Delia By John Delia Fans of the film The Thing (1982) beware; even though the movie takes you back to the Norwegian outpost providing a beginning to John Carpenter’s film with the same title, this one may as well have been a remake. Those that have never seen Carpenter’s masterpiece however, will get all the chills […]
Posted in FEATURES AND INDEPENDENT, MAJOR MOTION PICS, MOVIES Tags: Alien, Creature, Horror, Rated R, Suspense, Terror No Comments »
THE BIG YEAR, Fun With Birds
October 13th, 2011 John Delia By John Delia Now here’s an entertaining film with no violence, sexual content, abusive language, shooting, blood, well any of that stuff that’s designed to ramp up your blood pressure. It’s called The Big Year and what a great respite from all that aggression that we are seeing at the theater lately. Very funny, quick […]
Posted in FEATURES AND INDEPENDENT, MAJOR MOTION PICS, MOVIES Tags: Bird Watching, Birding, Comedy, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Rated PG, Steve Martin No Comments »Finding E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial : The Filming Locations of E.T.
October 12th, 2011 Kevin Stern Posted in Kevin Stern, ON-LOCATION Tags: Amblin, Burbank, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Elliott, location, Northridge, Porter Ranch, Raiders, Spielberg, Steven, Tujunga 29 Comments »
