Tagged: Karen Allen

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1980s / Action / Adventure / War

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Before I would develop an obsession with Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Vertigo, Raiders of the Lost Ark was my all-time favorite movie.  Perhaps as testament to the film’s greatness, it still ranks as a close second.  When someone...

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1980s / Comedy / Fantasy

Scrooged (1988)

Charles Dickens’ classic novel, “A Christmas Carol”, provides the backbone, and the backstory, for this modern update.  It’s become something of a cult classic for people to watch around Christmas time every year, though,...

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1970s / Comedy

National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)

Here’s another review that will most likely get me in trouble with the film’s biggest fans, as Animal House is generally considered to be a comedy classic among many circles.  I’ve seen it a few times...

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1990s / Comedy / Fantasy

The Sandlot (1993)

The Sandlot is a favorite movie for some, but I won’t count myself among them.  Those who enjoy the film probably do so for all of the reasons I don’t — it’s childish, predictable, unrealistic, poorly...

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1980s / Adventure / Romance / Science Fiction

Starman (1984)

In the late 1970s, Columbia Pictures had a multipicture development deal with actor/producer Michael Douglas. In 1980, Douglas bought the script to a sci-fo concept called Starman from Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon and...