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Over the course of a screen acting career that stretched across fifty years, Charles Cyphers racked up 100 credits, but he’s best known for his collaborations with John Carpenter, having appeared in the director’s Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, Someone’s Watching Me!, Elvis, The Fog, and Escape from New York. His most popular character was Sheriff Leigh Brackett from the 1978 Halloween, a role he reprised in 1981’s Halloween II and, after a forty year absence from the Halloween franchise, 2021’s Halloween Kills. Sadly, we’ve lost this great character actor, as Variety reports that Cyphers has passed away “from a brief illness” at the age of 85.

Cyphers’ manager Chris Roe confirmed his passing to Variety and provided the following statement: “Charles was a lovable and sensitive man. He always had the best stories, and you got a full performance while he told you. He was a close friend and...

We’ve learned the sad news this week that Charles Cyphers, a veteran actor best known to horror fans for his role in John Carpenter’s Halloween, has passed away at the age of 85.

Variety reports that Cyphers passed away “from a brief illness in Tucson, Arizona, on Sunday.”

Chris Roe Management said in a statement to Variety, “Charles was a lovable and sensitive man. He always had the best stories, and you got a full performance while he told you. He was a close friend and client on many years who will be dearly missed.”

Charles Cyphers played Sheriff Leigh Brackett in both Halloween and Halloween II, the sheriff of Haddonfield and the father of Michael Myers victim Annie Brackett. He more recently reprised the iconic role from those movies in legacy sequel Halloween Kills (2021).

“So sorry to hear about dear Chuck,” said Nancy Kyes, who played the daughter...

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Box Office bombs are either received with mockery from audiences or disappointment at what could have been. However, what often goes overlooked is their greater effects on those involved with the project and how they can leave a stain on their careers and, in some cases, outright ruin them. While it is hard to feign sympathy for a massive production company when their million-dollar project does not land with audiences, the trickle-down effect on every aspect of the production is unfortunate for everyone involved.

What is worse than a flop that has audiences able to poke fun or comment on the film's fallacies? It is a movie that barely gets recognized and is forgotten to time,...

The original Road House, starring Patrick Swayze, is considered by many to be the quintessential 1980s action film. However, the recent Doug Liman-directed remake from Amazon MGM Studios brought new life to the fan-favorite. Road House stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Daniela Melchior recently sat down with Cbr's Kevin Polowy to discuss the film, including the origin of an iconic shot from the trailer featuring Gyllenhaal showing off his shredded physique during a grueling workout.

Cbr: This movie is just ridiculously fun. It feels like a documentary almost. This is how I imagined just a couple of average days in Florida. Jake, what was most important to you that you guys kept intact from the original version?

Gyllenhaal: I mean, to me. First and foremost, for me personally, I think the energy that Patrick Swayze has in the original, and what he put into Dalton was this kind of quiet stillness,...

Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk is developing an animated children’s television series called Skatebirds. Here are the details.

Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk has teamed up with Montreal’s Laughing Dragon Studios to develop Skatebirds, an animated TV series aimed at kids aged six to 11. The show will, according to Deadline, “revolve around a group of young skateboard enthusiasts, who just happen to be birds, who flock together to support their hometown and show the world that when they put their feathers together, they can do anything they set their minds to”.

Episodes of Skatebirds will be 11 minutes with expansion into shorter-form formats for platforms such as TikTok and YouTube also planned.

Hawk said of the series “I’m excited to partner up with Laughing Dragon Studios for this unique series. Skateboarding unites communities, gets kids active and builds a sense of self-confidence while providing opportunities that can be limitless. Keep...

Road House star Jake Gyllenhaal has another 80s classic he'd like to remake.

While speaking with Cbr to promote the new Road House, Gyllenhaal revealed the one other 80s movie he'd like to remake. The actor confirmed that he wants to remake Gleaming the Cube, a drama released in 1989. The film was not a box office success upon release, though it's a movie that has garnered a cult following over the past few decades, with Gyllenhaal clearly among its fans.

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Gleaming the Cube was directed by Graeme Clifford and written by Michael Tolkin. A young Christian Slater stars as a teenage high school student and avid skateboarder named Brian Kelly. When Brian's adopted Vietnamese brother, Vinh (Art Chudabala), gets murdered, the skater takes it upon himself to investigate.

In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s there was one young actor who personified the burgeoning ennui of Generation X but, you know, made it look cool: Christian Slater. After bursting onto the scene as a teen in films like The Legend of Billie Jean, The Name of the Rose, and the underrated Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Slater was leading a number of films that have left an indelible cultural impact in the decades since. Alongside the Winona Ryders and Ethan Hawkes, Slater quickly came to represent a very specific kind of post-Reagan, aggravated anti-ambition.

Metrograph has curated a new series of films (all on 35mm!) celebrating Slater. Titled “Christian Slater: Outsider,” it starts on August 18. The movies included are Gleaming The Cube, Heathers, Pump Up the Volume, and True Romance. A perfectly selected quartet of pictures that all underwhelmed upon initial release, only to all earn cult-classic status in short order.

Oscar-nominated producer Lawrence Turman died Saturday at the Motion Picture and Television Country Home and Hospital. He was 96. He had a stellar career not only as a producer of such seminal films as The Graduate (1967), The Great White Hope (1970), American History X (1998) and many more in a producing career that lasted six decades, but he also took a significant turn when he left his partnership with producer David Foster to head the prestigious Peter Stark Producing Program at USC in 1991, an association that continued until his retirement just two years ago.

His son, John Turman, confirmed the death to Deadline. “Our father Lawrence Turman passed away late yesterday,” he said. “It’s sad, but he had a long and storied life, and it’s the passing of an era.” He added that the MPTF is planning a memorial service as well as USC at a later date.

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John Wright, the film editor who received Oscar nominations for his work on Jan de Bont’s Speed and The Hunt for Red October, one of six movies he cut for John McTiernan, has died. He was 79.

Wright died April 20 at his home in Calabasas after a battle with prostate and bone cancer, his wife of 57 years, Jane Wright, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Wright’s résumé also included such other high-profile films as Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy (1978), Paul Michael Glaser’s The Running Man (1987), Stan Dragoti’s Necessary Roughness (1991), John Woo’s Broken Arrow (1996), Bryan Singer’s X-Men (2000), James Gartner’s Glory Road (2006) and Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk (2008).

He collaborated with directors Mel Gibson on The Passion of the Christ (2004) and Apocalypto (2006); with Graeme Clifford on Frances (1982) and Gleaming the Cube (1989); and with Randall Wallace on Secretariat (2010) and Heaven Is for Real (2014).

Wright was nominated for an Emmy...

Although the dangerous street sport rose to prominence during the 1970s, the best skateboarding movies are few and far between. The best examples of the subgenre usually belong to documentary films, with their narrative counterparts failing to register with the same sort of lasting authenticity. The dramatized versions that do resonate usually feature a real-life professional skater in a starring role or as an executive producer or technical consultant. That being said, general moviegoers tend to favor skating movies more than critics have over the years.

Movies about skateboarding continue to be fan-favorite films with viewers. They're a certain type of genre of sports movie that is different than most and oftentimes are more dramatic in their storytelling. There are also a large number of documentary movies about skateboarding that have been made either about the professional skateboarding industry itself or about particular skaters, but there are also fictionalized movies about skateboarding as well.

While numerous controversies have already plagued this year’s Oscars — pre-recording eight categories, not initially inviting “West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler, and snubbing both Lady Gaga and Denis Villeneuve — the presenters list is among the most baffling choice for some.

In what seems like a selection of simply the most famous people on the planet regardless of profession, skateboarding icon Tony Hawk is among this year’s presenters. This week, he weighed in on reactions to his and others’ presenting gigs at the 94th Academy Awards on March 27.

“If being in every ‘Jackass’ movie, ‘xXx,’ ‘Police Academy 4,’ and ‘Sharknado 5’ doesn’t qualify me to present at the Oscars, then your taste in movies needs readjusting,” Hawk tweeted, before adding, “(I’m presenting, btw).”

Hawk’s statement came after the announcement that music producer DJ Khaled, surfer Kelly Slater, and Olympic snowboarder Shaun White would serve as presenters, alongside 2021 Best Song Oscar winner H.E.R.,...

Movies and TV are guilty of many inaccuracies, but few are worse than their portrayals of corsets.

“Netflix released Bridgerton on Christmas Day, and while it’s not meant to be a strictly historical portrayal of Regency life, the big inaccuracy that caught my eye just from the trailer was the costumes. Not only did the show seem to be using costumes from different centuries, with typical Regency looks from around the late eighteen-teens mashed against much earlier looks from forty years prior, but they also did the thing I hate in period movies and made a joke about a woman not being able to breathe in a corset.”

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The Boys‘ character Stormfront is a personification of the modern day Neo-Nazi movement, and a dose of reality in the escapism that is the superhero genre.

“In the second season of Amazon’s popular superhero drama The Boys,...

The World's Best Dad podcast is back with their second episode. This week, hosts Christian Jacobs and Jimmy Arrighi return in the bus, where they get into some crazy stories with legendary filmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait. The comedian gets into the time he set The Tonight Show's couch on fire, which earned him quite a bit of free publicity. Well, it wasn't exactly free. He was fined nearly $3,000 and had to do some PSAs too. Luckily, he was never really barred from the show, despite rumors he was banned for life.

In addition to the infamous Tonight Show fires, Bobcat Goldthwait talks about growing up and learning humor from his dad, touring and opening up for Kurt Cobain and Nirvana (on what would become the band's last shows in the United States), his best pal Robin Williams, being a dad and much more. Goldthwait even talks about how much Martin Scorsese enjoyed Shakes the Clown,...

Gallery 1988 debuted a new art show over the weekend featuring works from Jeff Boyes and Dan Mumford, each of them honoring some beloved films from decades past. Jeff Boyes focuses on films like Wayne’s World, Gleaming the Cube, and Dumb & Dumber. Meanwhile, Dan Mumford tackled the likes of The Crow, Terminator and First […]

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Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk is getting into the movie game and is producing his first Hollywood feature. The 50-year-old skateboarder has signed on to producer a comedy titled Back to the Grind, which centers on a group of five middle-aged men who get their old skate team back together in order to prevent their favorite park from being taken over by obnoxious younger skaters. Here's what Hawk had to say about the project in a statement.

"I'm excited to be part of this project, which comes at a time when skateboarding culture is so widely recognized across many generations. 'Back to the Grind' will be a fun, entertaining story that can enhance skateboarding's growing popularity."

The movie comes from Branded Pictures Entertainment. Tony Hawk is set to serve as a script and technical advisor on the project, in addition to his duties as a producer. "Tony is the leading ambassador to the sport,...

One of the cooler stunts in the 1989 skateboarding movie Gleaming The Cube happens at the climax of the film, when Brian, played by tousle-haired Christian Slater, crashes through a glass window in a misguided attempt at heroics. In the video above, production designer John Muto explains how they pulled off the…

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A review of tonight's Mr. Robot coming up just as soon as my favorite color is infrared... "You are at the intersection of all of it." -Whiterose Elliot vanishes for a large swath of "Python, Part 1," which begins the two-week the Mr. Robot season 2 finale, having attempted to employ a lucid dreaming technique so that he can turn the tables and spy on Mr. Robot for once. It wasn't quite as extreme as the completely Elliot-free "Successor," but there was a moment right before Elliot woke up where I wondered if he might not return at all until Part 2. As Elliot prepares his mind for this particular exercise, he invites us to participate, and other voices come faintly onto the soundtrack reciting the same mantra Elliot is using, making it sound as if we are, in fact, helping him out. But even though Elliot is as fictional to us as we are to him,...

On top of a stack of classic exploitation films, also comes a stack of what is hard for me to refer to as classics(perhaps with The Mean season being the exception), but they have some sort of nostalgic value at the very least. Thrashin’, She-Devil and Mean Season make their HD debut from Olive Films.

The Movies:

Of the three, I’d say most people are excited about Thrashin’. While Thrashin’ is far from what one could consider to be “good” cinema, it’s very Eighties, and strikes just the right nostalgic notes for it to remain on the minds of Thirty-somethings who grew up watching it on HBO and the like. It stars a very young, post-Goonies Josh Brolin, who is a badass skateboarder. As part of a gang, Brolin’s character is competing against their harshest rivals in a downhill skateboarding battle, when he falls in love...

Stars: Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, Amy Matysio, Michael Therriault | Written by Christian Piers Betley | Directed by Roger Christian

Whereas the name Christian Slater once meant a sign of a great movie (I’m thinking of the likes of Heathers, Mobsters, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and his magnum opus, Pump Up the Volume), today it tends to mean low-budget, badly scripted straight to DVD fodder. The last Slater film I watched, Sofia, was a bit of a mess. The film could have been an action-packed espionage thriller, but instead the film saw both actor and director seemingly out of their depth – with Slater literally trying to “act” like a tough guy without backing it up with any actual physicality. So I approached Stranded with a bit of trepidation, even moreso given that director Roger Christian was responsible for the atrocity that was Battlefield Earth…

Making it’s world premiere here in the UK,...

By Amelia Mularz

As movie fans, we've gotten used to seeing stars step out in varying states of transformation for roles. Recently we've seen Christian Bale with a comb-over and Reese Witherspoon as a brunette. But nothing could've prepared us for Bradley Cooper's new look, which he debuted this week.

A perm.

Yes, a real honest-to-goodness perm. The highly processed, gel-smothered, crunchy-to-the-touch hairstyle that ranked supreme in the 1980s is back and living on the head of the Sexiest Man Alive. Spotted on the set of a new David O. Russell film, Bradley Cooper borrowed a page from adolescent girls of yesteryear and went full-fledged fake curly.

But the part that's truly shocking about the resurgence of the perm is that...well, it actually looks kinda good. Even in the heyday of big hair, experts would agree that a permanent (as it's scientifically known) only looked attractive on approximately...

by Nick Schager

[This week's "Retro Active" is inspired by the documentary portrait of skateboarder Danny Way, Waiting for Lightning.]

What does Vietnamese anti-communist activism have to do with rad skateboarding? Absolutely nothing. Except, of course, that they were melded together in hilariously random fashion in 1989's seminal skateboarding drama Gleaming the Cube, a work that brought to the multiplex masses the burgeoning sport and its fashion. At the center of this cult-classic is Christian Slater, sporting ratty t-shirts, spiky hair, and a lone left earring dangling from his 'lobe, the teenage actor striking a pose of rebel-cool that, along with the film's portrait of skating through city streets and in empty neighborhood swimming pools, helped inspire legions of kids to learn to grind and ollie. Slater is Brian, a prototypical high-school outsider whose parents don't understand his lifestyle and its attendant low grades and trouble with the law. His problems don't really begin, however, until his adopted Vietnamese brother Vinh (Art Chudabala), after expressing concern about trouble at work to Brian,...

Throughout his 30+-year career, character actor Steven Bauer has been associated with films like Scarface, Thief of Hearts, Running Scared, Gleaming the Cube (a personal favorite), Raising Cain, Primal Fear and Traffic to name a few as well as the hit 80's TV series "Wiseguy."

For his latest project Bauer decided to switch things up a bit and don a crazy fur cap and eye patch to fight werewolves in Universal Studios Home Entertainment's latest classic monster project, Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, which was recently released on Blu-ray and DVD everywhere.

To mark the occasion, Dread Central had the opportunity to briefly chat with Bauer about how his life-long fandom for the Universal Monsters led to his involvement with Werewolf as well as more on his experiences shooting in Transylvania and how one small eye patch caused so many problems on set.

Check out our exclusive interview with Bauer below!

. Ja from Mnpp here. When you think of Christian Slater, what's the first thing you think of? This question assumes you're old enough to know who the hell Christian Slater is and maybe recall when he was known for things, of course.  . I assume most people think of his "Jack Nicholson by way of James Dean" riffing in Heathers. Or maybe you're really cool and Gleaming the Cube or Pump Up the Volume hit you like a mack truck. Me, I've got brain issues - I immediately think of The Legend of Billie Jean (but then that's a film that's always near the surface of my brain, any time, anywhere). . Anyway if Lars Von Trier has his way in a post-Nymphomaniac world you're going to think of Christian Slater in a different way - he's just cast the actor to play Charlotte Gainsbourg's father in that promises-to-be-controversial next flick of his,...

Hear that? That’s the sound of every bike messenger you’ve ever met getting a collective boner. While on paper writer/director David Koepp’s new movie “Premium Rush” sounds terrible, like they weren’t even trying to come up with a real narrative, the movie is actually a blast. It’s a hearty nod to 80’s underground sports movies like “Rad” and “Thrashin’”, though the most apt and obvious comparison is “Gleaming the Cube”. Those first two are ostensibly about the sports—BMX racing and skateboarding respectively—but “Gleaming the Cube” is a story where the characters just happen to be skate punks. “Premium Rush” is basically one long, extended chase scene, the primary characters simply happen to be New York City bike messengers. Like most films that attempt to peer into a specific subculture (whether it be punk rock, gymnastic, hackers, gamers, Trekkies, whatever), “Premium Rush” gets some things right,...

David Winters’ 1986 classic “Thrashin’”, which stars Josh-freaking-Brolin, was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. My love for the flick even survived my ill-fated attempt at skateboarding, an endeavor which ultimately ended with me crying in the middle of the street while my friends looked on. As you can imagine, it was pretty pathetic. Instead of embarrassing myself further, I decided to live vicariously through films like “Thrashin’” and “Gleaming the Cube”. “Rad” got the occasional play, but it just wasn’t the same. Haven’t hard of this one? Read this synopsis from the VHS box: In a fast paced story of championship skateboard action, young love is tested against the background of warring teen gangs when handsome Corey Webster (Josh Brolin) comes to L.A. for the breathtaking classic downhill race, The Massacre. His greatest rival is Hook (Robert Rusler), the cool ruthless leader of a local punk skateboard gang.

Joss Whedon's blockbuster has a terrible name – but it faces stiff competition from the likes of B*A*P*S, Gleaming the Cube, They, Eegah, Sssssss and Phffft!

What's claimed to be "the most highly anticipated movie event of the year" is now upon us. It's the release of a film called Marvel Avengers Assemble. You what? People bent on vengeance often do cool stuff, but it usually amounts to a bit more than assembling. What's this lot's vengeful mission? To participate in a fire drill, or to begin the school day? And why would dried milk be the best fuel to fire up their deadly rancour?

In fact, some bodybuilders do rely on the popular Cadbury's product. As a handy source of concentrated protein, it's apparently much prized in prisons. However, powdered milk plays no role in Marvel Avengers Assemble.

Of course, if you're the educated type, you...

Earlier today the folks over at EatSleepLiveFilm put up a list of what they called the ’100 Best Films of the 80s’ and whilst their list was full of awesome films – covering a plethora of genres and touching base on a number of the decades best and most-loved movies – upon reading it, and as a 80s aficionado, I found there to be quite a few glaring omissions. Hence this “rebuttal” – a list of 50 films (in no particular order) that Didn’T make Eslf’s Top 100 that I think are some of the best of the 80s, including some that might surprise you…

Weird Science One Crazy Summer How I Got Into College The Burning Class of 1984 The Adventures of Ford Fairlane The Beastmaster The Sword and the Sorceror Hiding Out Battle Beyond the Stars Home Front (aka Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home) The Blob Dance Til’ Dawn My Science Project...

Hollywood super-agent Warren Klein is back… and he’s got some distressing news for Christian Slater. A new 1980s voicemail from the awesome, albeit fake, Benihana-loving, straight-shooting Klein — who has previously called up clients like Jami Gertz, C. Thomas Howell, Kirk Cameron — has been unearthed, warning the Gleaming the Cube star about the release of rival skateboarding flick, Thrashin’. (“The trades are gonna eat this up! Two action-packed romantic skateboarding epics in the same quarter!”) Of course, we all know now that Thrashin’ was released in 1986, while Gleaming the Cube was released in 1989, but that’s not even Klein’s best dead-wrong but well-meaning prediction.

Here is another hilarious voicemails video from Funny or Die. This one comes from “powerful 1980s Hollywood agent” Warren Klein. We have shared two other voicemail messages from Klein. This one is four and a half minutes long and was left for Christian Slater and deals with Josh Brolin’s skateboarding film Thrashin’ having it’s release date pushed out two weeks before Slater’s film, Gleaming the Cube. The newest release from the Warren Klein Voicemail Archive proves that there's always two of everything in Hollywood, especially action-packed, romantic skateboard epics. In the 1980's, Warren Klein was the most powerful agent in Hollywood. He represented the biggest stars of the era. Presumed lost, the Warren Klein Voicemail Archive was discovered last year in a foreclosed storage unit in Brentwood, CA. Warren Klein was ranked #53 on Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People Of 1984. This video is pure humor take a listen...

Sorry but I can't look at any movie about a bike messenger without comparing it to Gleaming the Cube, and that includes Premium Rush, the new thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Written and directed by superstar scribe David Koepp(War of the Worlds, Spider-Man), the film in a fast paced actioner featuring Jgl as an adrenaline junkie courier who picks up a mysterious package at Columbia...

Hopefully American Idol will do that kingmaking thing it does this Wednesday and set up Fox’s Breaking In with a boffo audience come 9:30/8:30c. The caper comedy stars film vet Christian Slater as Oz, the head of a company that gives top-shelf security systems a firm kick in the tires. Oz recruits slacker hacker Cameron (Reaper’s Bret Harrison) to join his team, working alongside Odette Yustman (Brothers & Sisters), Alphonso McAuley (Chocolate News) and Trevor Moore (The Whitest Kids U’Know, channeling Dwight Schrute).

Harrison gave TVLine a look at what to expect from Breaking In, its requisite “Will they/Wont they?...

Everett Collection Robert De Niro in “Taxi Driver” (1976).

After Cinemacon and San Francisco’s Wondercon, film fans and fanboys were treated to days and days of news about their favorite coming films. In the meantime, studios and distributors have assembled a solid collection of new releases on DVD and Blu-ray for those collectors, both as a supplement to their theatrical moviegoing experiences, and as a substitute. We’ve highlighted just a few of the ones that are a great value.

The gang over a Pajiba has created a great little video montage of movie clips that give us the 100 greatest movie insults of all time, and they show it all in under ten minutes! This is pure entertainment, enjoy!

Films included in the montage include:

Here is a List of Movies Cited in the Above Video

0’00 - Roxanne, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Gleaming the Cube, The Princess Bride, A Fish Called Wanda, Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, Casino, Three Amigos, A Clockwork Orange

1’05 - Dolemite, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bad Santa, The Witches of Eastwick, The Big Lebowski, In Bruges, Full Metal Jacket, There Will Be Blood

2’05 - Toy Story, Casablanca, Encino Man, The Women, Predator, Army of Darkness, They Live, Uncle Buck, Big Trouble in Little China, New Jack City, Billy Madison

3’00 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Departed, Carlito’s Way, In the Loop, Glengarry Glen Ross,...

Here’s a bit of fun this Thursday lunchtime although if you’re going to watch the video that I’ve embedded below in an office, I suggest you use headphones. I love this video montages that people put together and today we’ve found this one on Pajiba (Put together by Harry Hanharan) called ‘The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time’ which does exactly what it says on the tin.

Some of the insults are rude, some incredibly clever but all are entertaining. Pajiba also give us a list of every single film mention in the clip so follow along as you watch.

Please note, this video contains swearing.

Movies used in the video:

0’00 – Roxanne, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Gleaming the Cube, The Princess Bride, A Fish Called Wanda, Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, Casino, Three Amigos, A Clockwork Orange 1’05 – Dolemite, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bad Santa,...

Pajiba has edited another wonderful montage of movie clips, this time compiling the 100 greatest movie insults of all time in under 10 minutes. Watch the video now embedded after the jump. Films included in the montage: Roxanne, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Gleaming the Cube, The Princess Bride, A Fish Called Wanda, Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, Casino, Three Amigos, A Clockwork Orange, Dolemite, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bad Santa, The Witches of Eastwick, The Big Lebowski, In Bruges, Full Metal Jacket, There Will Be Blood, Toy Story, Casablanca, Encino Man, The Women, Predator, Army of Darkness, They Live, Uncle Buck, Big Trouble in Little China, New Jack City, Billy Madison, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Departed, Carlito’s Way, In the Loop, Glengarry Glen Ross, Stand By Me, Grosse Pointe Blank, Duck Soup, Caddyshack, Planes Trains & Automobiles, South Park, Napoleon Dynamite, Mean Girls, The Breakfast Club, As ...

hh -- the man who brought us The 100 Cheesiest Movie Lines of All Time and Get Out of There! The Video -- is back with another fantastic video today. He's even pulled himself out of anonymity. His name is Harry Hanrahan, and he's British.

As always, his videos need very little introduction. This is Harry Hanrahan's latest brilliant video edit, a compilation of The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time, nearly ten minutes of pure, profane glee. Hit the play button and soak in the verbal abuse.

(Hat Tip: Jelinas)

Here is a List of Movies Cited in the Above Video

0'00 - Roxanne, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Gleaming the Cube, The Princess Bride, A Fish Called Wanda, Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, Casino, Three Amigos, A Clockwork Orange

1'05 - Dolemite, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bad Santa, The Witches of Eastwick, The Big Lebowski, In Bruges,...

Director: Ulli Lommel Writers: Ulli Lommel, Richard Hell, Robert Madero Starring: Carole Bouquet, Richard Hell, Ulli Lommel, Andy Warhol During my teens, I feasted on a steady diet of punk rock movies, everything from Rock 'n' Roll High School to Suburbia, The Decline of Western Civilization to Dogs in Space to Sid and Nancy to Rude Boy to Another State of Mind to The Blank Generation (1976) to Border Radio to Breaking Glass to The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle to Gleaming the Cube to Jubilee to The Last Pogo to Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains to Liquid Sky to The Punk Rock Movie to Repo Man to Surf Nazis Must Die to Thrashin’ to Urgh! A Music War to Stop Making Sense…but one film that always eluded me was Ulli Lommel’s Blank Generation (not to be confused with Ivan Kral’s 1976 documentary The Blank GenerationBlank Generation on DVD.

The Cinematical Movie Club is a new weekly feature where we pick a film, watch it and then discuss it. Feel free to read our introduction for more info.

Heathers is near and dear to my heart. It marked the first step towards my adult preferences, as I broke out of the kiddie fare and slowly journeyed into the world of more discerning taste. (My pre-teen self thought Grease 2 was a superior film to the original in all ways, people!) I rented the VHS because of my Christian Slater fandom born out of The Legend of Billie Jean and Gleaming the Cube. The Metropolitan trailer tugged me into the world of Whit Stillman and conversational features while the film itself allowed me to discover my deep love of black comedy and well-written banter.

To be fair, the first time I watched it, my friend and I were professing our love for Jason Dean,...

I'll concede that this may not interest too many folks, but like Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, this particular big screen version of a children's classic intrigues me because I have a two-year-old, and he loves the hell out of Harold and the Purple Crayon (whenever he wears footie pajamas, he pretends to be Harold).

Now, before you get all up in a nipple-twisting zorker about a feature movie version of Harold and start foaming at the pant leg about desecrated childhood memories, maybe knowing who is behind the project will ease your mind to a degree. For this kind of movie, you could hardly ask for a better producer than Maurice Sendak (who was a protege of Crockett Johnson, the write of Harold and the Purple Crayon), who I hope is involved to keep an eye on the project to ensure it maintains the spirit of the source material.

In a move that's worse to me than this whole Spidey reboot nonsense, "Mannequin" is the latest 80's favorite to go the remake route. The newly relaunched Gladden Entertainment are said to be in early development on the redo of the ‘window dresser goes gaga for loose doll' comedy. Naturally, the company - who, back in the day, also produced "The Fabulous Baker Boys", "Weekend at Bernie's", and Christian Slater/Skateboarding pic "Gleaming the Cube" - want to contemporize the plot, and will likely cast a couple of hot Twilight-esque youngsters in the lead roles. The shingle are said to be in early talks with studios, and are on the hunt for a writer. Why do I have a feeling that at least two of those titles will also be getting the retread treatment at some point? "Weekend at Bernie's" in particular seems like something that would totally be redone,...

Who here had Mannequin in the 80’s remake pool? What? You guys didn’t have a “Which 80’s movie will be announced next as a remake” pool going with your buddies? I’m telling you, if you don’t have one going, then I highly suggest starting one because there are sure a lot of classic 80’s films out there just ripe for the remake pickin’. Of course, you could always do shots but then half of the people that follow movie blogs would die of alcohol poisoning in just under a year.

According to our buds over at Movie Hole, they have it on good word that Gladden Entertainment – who released the original Mannequin back in 1987 – are just in the early stages of putting together a remake. This news is not entirely all groan worthy because Gladden also put out the classic 80’s gems, The Manhattan Project, Gleaming the Cube,...

Mannequin, the 1987 tale of boy meets inanimate object with boobs is being brought back to life. The newly relaunched Gladden Entertainment are the ones responsible for this project. Gladden produced movies such as The Fabulous Baker Boys, Weekend At Bernie's, and that Christian Slater gem Gleaming The Cube. The company wants to modernize the plot and are looking to cast some "Twilight-esque" kiddos in the lead. Galdden are said to be in early talks with studios, and looking...

In Jennifer's Body (in theaters today), Adam Brody, our favorite geek hero from The O.C., tries evil on for size. He plays the lead singer of a devil-worshipping emo band that attempts to sacrifice Jennifer (Megan Fox) because they think she's a virgin and it will bring them greater fame. (He doesn't do his own vocals: "My singing voice is still going through puberty," he says. "They gave me a singing lesson or two, and it’s not the worst thing in the world, but it’s not anything anyone would choose to hear.") Unfortunately, since Jennifer's not pure, a demon takes over her body and starts feeding on high school boys. Almost as dangerous as Megan Fox with a supernatural appetite? The EW Pop Culture Personality Test. Brody submitted to one and had a couple of friends over in case he needed backup... Entertainment Weekly: The best concert you’ve ever seen?...