Movie-A-Day #232: The Bad News Bears (1976).
The Little League World Series is underway right now. As fun as Little League baseball can be, it just feels so strange and incongruent to see the kids out there playing on a national stage, being treated like superstar athletes on ESPN. It’s enough to make you long for the simpler days of “The Bad News Bears.”
Movie-A-Day #231: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).
Today would have been the 90th birthday of “Star Trek” guru Gene Roddenberry. The Trek film canon has been covered here before – including old, new and meta – so today we’ll focus on the second entry in the series, “The Wrath of Khan,” since many folks consider it the best.
Movie-A-Day #230: Lolita (1962).
Vladamir Nabakov’s classic (but shocking) novel “Lolita” was first published in the United States on this day in 1958. Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation is the best of the two film versions (the other came out in 1997), probably because Nabakov himself wrote the screenplay as well. Plus, hey, it’s Stanley Kubrick. The man was a genius.
Movie-A-Day #229: She Done Him Wrong (1933).
Happy birthday to Mae West. The prime of her movie career only a last a couple short years, but oh what she did with it. And in “She Done Him Wrong” she gets to play off Cary Grant, which makes it even better.
Movie-A-Day #228: Taking Woodstock (2009).
Day 2 of Woodstock was 42 years ago today. Yes, I know that posting about it two days in a row is kind of beating a dead horse. But it gives us a chance to mention Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock,” which really is an entertaining and overlooked film.
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