Ultimate List of Movies in Popular Culture
Tim’s Ultimate List of Movies in Popular Culture – about 100 films that shaped modern culture, with Amazon links so you can catch the ones you missed.
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Holiday Inn (1942)
Tim Kretschmann revisits Holiday Inn (1942), the Irving Berlin musical starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire that gave us the timeless classic White Christmas.
Review – 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
Adam Holtzapfel reviews 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene (2017), the documentary dissecting Psycho’s iconic shower sequence shot by shot. A must-watch for cinema fans.
Interview – Adolfo Of The Dead
ECHG’s Adam Holtzapfel chats with Days of the Dead co-founder Adolfo Dorta about the Charlotte show, film fests, after-hours bands and his most-listened albums.
Reviews From The Crypt – Something Wicked This Way Comes
Adam Holtzapfel reviews Disney’s 1983 dark fantasy ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ — Ray Bradbury’s tale of Mr. Dark’s sinister traveling carnival — awarding this forgotten gem a B+.
Review – Creep Van
Adam Holtzapfel reviews 2012’s low-budget horror flick ‘Creep Van’ — a killer-van exploitation tale that’s full of inventive death scenes, nudity, and fun bad acting.
Jaws (1975)
Tim Kretschmann reviews Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic ‘Jaws’ — the film that launched the summer blockbuster — calling it absolute perfection and awarding it an A+.
Billy Elliot (2000)
Tim Kretschmann reviews the 2000 drama ‘Billy Elliot’ — a working-class boy’s fight to dance amid the miners’ strike — awarding Jamie Bell’s breakout performance a B+.
Holiday Inn (1942)
Christmas Treat review of Holiday Inn (1942), in which Bing Crosby’s showman opens a supper nightclub that’s open only 15 days a year — on holidays.
It Happened One Christmas (1977)
Christmas Treat review of It Happened One Christmas (1977), Universal’s TV remake of It’s a Wonderful Life with Marlo Thomas in the George Bailey-type role and Orson Welles as Mr. Potter.