The Right Stuff

AMC brings The Right Stuff back to select theaters in honor of John Glenn

Posted 9 years ago

Given the recent loss of aviator/engineer/astronaut John Glenn, select AMC theaters in the US will be screening Philip Kaufman's space travel drama, THE RIGHT STUFF. The film follows the story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their seat-of-the-pants approach...

Exclusive Interview: Scott Glenn talks Marvel’s Daredevil and The Leftovers

Posted 11 years ago

The hallmark of a great character actor is familiarity even if you don’t know their name. Scott Glenn is one of those actors you recognize when you see him even if the name doesn’t ring a bell. Having appeared in...

2013 additions to the National Film Registry include Pulp Fiction, Roger & Me and The Right Stuff

Posted 12 years ago

Every year the Library of Congress adds twenty-five films to their National Film Registry, and this morning they announced their selections for 2013. This year's additions that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" include Quentin Tarantino's PULP FICTION, THE RIGHT...

Face-Off: Black Dynamite vs. Machete Cortez

Posted 13 years ago

In last week’s article, we celebrated the two best astronaut movies ever made by facing-off THE RIGHT STUFF versus APOLLO 13 with the former just edging out Ron Howard’s 1995 effort. MACHETE KILLS open this Friday (the sequel to Robert...

Top 10 Essential Realistic Space Movies (Video Edition)

Posted 13 years ago

Alfonso Cuaron’s GRAVITY is being lauded as the most realistic portrayal of being in outer space of all time. There are lots of films that have been labeled as science fiction that have gotten space travel right, but not many...

Face-Off: The Right Stuff vs. Apollo 13

Posted 13 years ago

On the occasion of BREAKING BAD’s series finale, last week’s face-off featured a fight between legendary TV crimes bosses Tony Soprano and Walter White. It was a photo finish but in the end you all decided that “T” was just...

Soundtracks, Soundtracks, Soundtracks: Oscar Winning Scores Part One

Posted 13 years ago

There are many things that make a movie what it is. It all starts with a story (according to what every How-To book on screenwriting tells us), there is the director and his crew, there are the actors, who bust...