The 50 Club - Raiders of the Lost Ark

Welcome back to another edition of The 50 Club! This week we sit down to examine a classic popcorn flick:

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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, and Paul Freeman
Written by Lawrence Kasdan
Directed by Steven Spielberg

Mike Noyes, Popcorn Junkies Staff Member:
When it comes to action flicks, it doesn’t get much better [...]

The 50 Club - The Staff Chimes In!

This week, instead of doing a normal 50 Club, I thought I’d branch out a bit. See, for the most part, I pick the movies for us to examine each week. I look at lists like AFI’s 100 Greatest Films, the imdb.com Top 250, Time’s 100 Greatest Films, and so on. But [...]

The 50 Club - The Maltese Falcon

Welcome back to another edition of The 50 Club! This week, we delve into the world of film clichés and how good the films that created those clichés really were:

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THE MALTESE FALCON

Starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, and Sidney Greenstreet
Written and Directed by John Huston

Mike Noyes, Popcorn Junkies Staff Member:
The Maltese [...]

The 50 Club - North By Northwest

Welcome back to another edition of The 50 Club! My apologies for the missed column last week, but my two fellow contributors who were scheduled to participate in the discussion of Deliverance were both tied down by personal situations that prevented them from participating. In any event, after the fun we all had [...]

The 50 Club - Halloween

Welcome back to another edition of The 50 Club! It’s the final week of Scary Movie Month, and this time around we check out the flick that started a movement:

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HALLOWEEN

Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles, and Donald Pleasance
Written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill
Directed by John Carpenter

Matt Yeager, Retrograding Staff Member:
To this [...]

The 50 Club - John Carpenter’s The Thing

Welcome back to another edition of The 50 Club! It’s Week 3 of Scary Movie Month, and this time around we check out a rare example of a remake that blows the original out of the water:

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JOHN CARPENTER’S THE THING

Starring Kurt Russell, Keith David, and Wilford Brimley
Written by Bill Lancaster
Directed by John [...]

The 50 Club - Suspiria

Welcome back to another edition of The 50 Club! It’s Week 2 of Scary Movie Month, and this time around we take a look at the pinnacle of giallo:

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SUSPIRIA

Starring Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, and Flavio Bucci
Written by Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi
Directed by Dario Argento

Tom Pandich, Popcorn Junkies Staff Member:
Suspiria is my [...]

The 50 Club - Night of the Living Dead

Welcome back to another edition of The 50 Club! October means Halloween, and what better way to celebrate than taking a look at some classic horror flicks and seeing if they’re 50 Club material? This week, we take a look at a film which started a revolution:

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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

Starring [...]

The 50 Club - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Welcome back to another edition of The 50 Club! September is Readers’ Choice Month, and for our final Readers’ Choice we’ll be examining one of the greatest satirical dark comedies ever made:

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DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB

Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and [...]

The 50 Club - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Welcome back to another edition of The 50 Club! September is Readers’ Choice Month, and this week we’ll be examining another pick by our readers, a film that was voted by Inside Pulse readers as the Funniest Movie of our Generation:

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MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, [...]