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Regarding movies to see... here's the trailer for the last great Western I've seen -- and they ain't makin' 'em like this any longer. Shot on film, the way movies were intend:

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So there are some heavy-duty movie fans here and it's been months since the movie houses all closed because of the pandemic. When those theaters reopen, if they do (several chains are making noises a ...

Steve,

With Hollywood in their executives' islands hideouts from the Covid Virus, the police sex-crimes squads, lawsuits and with their teenage girlfriends and few new movies being released, how ab ...

From 1969, in anticipation of The golden hair-dye President; a lousy biography released in Cinerama (filmed in 70 MM) "MacKenna's Gold" -- the opening song; "I'll do anything for gold.. ...

I hope you're well and bring your Army gear to the showing of the original, one-and-only, genuine "King Kong." And I hope it's projected off of a 35 MM film-print on a screen 30 feet high ( ...

MIGHTY JOE YOUNG was a great film. I've never heard from anyone who thought different... --- Steve Yohe

Of course you have; me.

I first saw it on television in a cut version when RKO's vault of ...

By the time of the 1952 re-release of the original "King Kong," Merian C. Cooper had left RKO Radio Pictures after decades of getting shorted on his share of the profits (I think this was be ...

Here are two links; one is to some scenes from the original 1933 "King Kong" where Kong wrestles several monsters, not including the board of directors of RKO Radio Pictures. Among the hold ...

Here are the pre-filmed scenes from the next sequel (forget about lies that this one is the last), wherein they bring back Carrie Fisher as a young gal (she has better weapons this time, as you can se ...

From what I've read about the latest incarnation of what used to be "Star Wars," there's only one thing that will save future versions... And that is for Disney to hire Roseanne Barr to wri ...

Ethel Johnson (Wingo) was Babs Wingo's sister and started wrestling circa 1950. It's been alleged Babs Wingo was effectively Moolah's -- Lillian Ellison's -- slave, in posts on the WCMB at times over ...

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-jdw

Here's a request for the promotion of Steve to Chief Movie Critic of the Post-Film Era of Movies on The Other Arena. (I suspect he's already got that job for the ...

For all the millions of original "King Kong" fans out there, alive, dead and uncertain, a non-fiction book about The Flying Tigers was published during World War II, and film rights were pur ...

This is part of the true story of the original King Kong as a wrestling giant against them animals who look, to me, like various current politicians in drag, in the original film of the same name by t ...

Ken I was reacting to the clip, not your post.

I would go see just about any of the old films in 70MM, but the projector are hard to find. They seem to be able to do 70MM at the Cinamadome on Sunse ...