Night Gallery season 2 [Rod Serling]
Night Gallery season two continues with more episodes of the macabre, by Rod Serling. In fact, a full season’s worth, unlike the short first season.
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Night Gallery season 1
Night Gallery is Rod Serling’s sequel to The Twilight Zone. It dealt more with horror and the supernatural. Some episodes are exceptional.
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Ghostbusters 2016 [Melissa McCarthy]
Ghostbusters (2016) starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth
The good news is, Ghostbusters 2016 begins with a very strong opening scene. The bad news is it quickly goes downhill. The biggest problem with it is: as a comedy, it’s simply not funny. Why is that?
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Having Wonderful Time
Having Wonderful Time (1938) starring Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. – Red Skelton’s film debut as camp social director. He does his famous Dunking donuts routine, amongst the romance and conflict …
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My Gal Sal [Rita Hayworth]
My Gal Sal (1942) starring Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature
A gorgeous movie musical, My Gal Sal is a musical biography of Gay Nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser. The ever-lovely Rita Hayworth is the eponymous Sal, a stage star who helps Dresser to become the toast of Tin Pan Alley.
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It Was a Very Good Year [song lyrics]
Song lyrics to It Was a Very Good Year, composed by Ervin Drake in 1961 and originally recorded by Bob Shane with the Kingston Trio
When I was seventeen
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for small
Town girls and soft summer nights
We’d hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen
The Office Wife [Lewis Stone]
The Office Wife (1930) starring Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead, Joan Blondell
The Office Wife is a drama about a married executive, who shortly after his marriage to a younger woman, hires a new secretary. The secretary is determined to be all business … But she unexpectedly falls in love with the older man anyway.
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Justice League 2017 [Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman]
Justice League (2017) starring Henry Cavill, Ben Afleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Ezra Miller
The formation of the Justice League, to prevent Darkseid’s minion, Steppenwolf from finding & joining three mother boxes. If he succeeds, he’ll literally recreate the hellish landscape of Darkseid’s world on Earth. Killing us all in the process.
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The Invisible Man [Claude Rains]
The Invisible Man (1933), starring Claude Rains, directed by James Whale
The signature adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man stars Claude Rains as a scientist who discovers a serum that makes him invisible. Covered by bandages and dark glasses, the scientist arrives at a small English village and attempts to reverse his discovery.
However, the same drug that renders him invisible is slowly driving him insane … And capable of committing acts of terror. Directed by James Whale, the horror classic features groundbreaking special effects by John P. Fulton.
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One of Those Songs
Song lyrics to One of Those Songs, Songwriters: Alain Albert Boublil, Robert Fourrey, Gerard Calvi
Well, this is one of those songs that you hear now and then,
You don’t know just where and you don’t know just when.
It’s one of those songs that are over and then,
It’s one of those songs that start playin’ again.