MPAA Rating: G/ Genre: Animated-Family-Fantasy/ Stars: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor/ Runtime: 125 minutes In 1940, long before the “billion-dollar phenomena” that supposedly is Frozen, Walt Disney released a movie called “Fantasia”, a movie that was only the third feature of his studio, but undoubtedly is still one of his most…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: 12 Angry Men “57”
MPAA Rating: NR/ Genre: Crime Drama/ Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Jack Warden, Joseph Sweeney, Ed Begley, George Voskovec, Robert Webber/ Runtime: 96 minutes Take a classic film and strip it down to its bare necessities. Gone are the…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Alien: A 40th Anniversary Retrospective.
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Sci-Fi-Horror/ Stars: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto/ Runtime: 116 minutes As the credits of “Alien” open, the slowly paced opening titles and soft, eerie score give off a subtle hint of just what exactly the viewer…