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Sometimes packing a film with talented, mainstream actors makes a film entertaining. Other times, a more formulaic approach is taken. Physical comedy, timing, and a great theme help put any comedy film on the radar. In the 90s, a technique that caught on quickly was comedy films consistently featuring real bands playing themselves. On some rare occasions, a band would cameo in a film franchise that they liked, like Blink-182 in American Pie.

When comedy films use real music or a live band, sometimes the band will pose as a fictional band. In other cases, they are the backdrop of the plot in the film, playing themselves to serve the story. The film Hot Rod featured the band Queens of the Stone Age as a fictional version of themselves. Whichever path the bands take in a film, it's always awesome to see familiar faces embedded into any movie.

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High-concept movie formula makers will have a field day with Zach Clark’s The Becomers. Is its tender, yet often violent, saga of star-crossed – and serial human body inhabiting – lovers a hybrid of The Man Who Fell to Earth and Todd Solondz’ Palindromes (whose lead character is played by eight different actors) or an Invasion of the Body Snatchers updated for an N95-masked America? Or … something else? Clark’s first film since his widely beloved Little Sister (2016) wasn’t one he had in the pipeline. The New York-based writer-director-editor had put a heroic effort into launching a project on […]

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High-concept movie formula makers will have a field day with Zach Clark’s The Becomers. Is its tender, yet often violent, saga of star-crossed – and serial human body inhabiting – lovers a hybrid of The Man Who Fell to Earth and Todd Solondz’ Palindromes (whose lead character is played by eight different actors) or an Invasion of the Body Snatchers updated for an N95-masked America? Or … something else? Clark’s first film since his widely beloved Little Sister (2016) wasn’t one he had in the pipeline. The New York-based writer-director-editor had put a heroic effort into launching a project on […]

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Robert Mulligan’s late career gem is a beautiful, fad-free tale of teenage romance with universal appeal, famed for introducing Reese Witherspoon to the screen. She’s truly a sensation, as is the actress Emily Warfield as the older sister who ‘steals’ Reese’s beau. Photographed by Freddie Francis, this tops even Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird.

The Man in the Moon

Blu-ray

Twilight Time

1991 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 100 min. / Street Date May 16, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95

Starring: Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland, Reese Witherspoon, Jason London, Emily Warfield, Bentley Mitchum.

Cinematography: Freddie Francis

Film Editor: Trudy Ship

Original Music: James Newton Howard

Written by Jenny Wingfield

Produced by Mark Rydell

Directed by Robert Mulligan

I certainly didn’t want this one to get away. I started work at the newly reconstituted MGM in 1991, when it was pretending that the ownership upsets and financial woes of...

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Marvel Unlimited, Marvel’s digital comics subscription service, offers members unlimited access to over 20,000 issues of Marvel's classic and newer titles, delivered digitally through your desktop web browser and the Marvel Unlimited mobile app. With classic and newer issues added every week here are some of the amazing Marvel titles coming to Marvel Unlimited this March:

Week of 3/6

All-new Wolverine Annual #1

An All-New Story featuring Your Favorite Surviving Claw-popping Characters! All-new Wolverine + Spider-gwen = All-new Wolvergwen And Spiderine! Gabby The World’S Most Dangerous Little Sister! Plus: Jonathan The Wolverine!

Amazing Spider-man #17

Carnage #11

Civil War II: Choosing Sides #5

Deadpool V Gambit #4

Guardians Of The Galaxy #11

Han Solo #3

Howard The Duck #10

Hyperion #6 Final Issue!

Marvel Universe Guardians Of The Galaxy #11

Ms. Marvel #10

Nova #10

Rocket Raccoon & Groot #8

Silver Surfer #6

Spider-gwen #11

Spider-man 2099 #14

Spider-man #7

The Astonishing Ant-man #11

Thunderbolts #4

Uncanny Avengers #13

Week of 3/13

A Year Of Marvels: September Infinite Comic #1

In September,...

Does anyone know what just happened? Britain's Got Talent possibly had one of its most bonkers episodes ever tonight, thanks to a hypnotic dog (sure), a man dressed as a nun on a motorised piano, and Simon Cowell actually being nice. What the hell was that about?

Look, Bgt has always had its odder moments, but for good portions of this episode we wondered whether we'd fallen asleep and dreamt the whole crazy thing.

Where do we begin? How about at the start, with Musical Ruth... also known as Matthew Hunt. Musical Ruth was the aforementioned male nun who drove a piano round the stage singing 'Give Me Oil In My Lamp', which we genuinely haven't heard since we were sat cross-legged in assembly 15 years ago.

Obviously, Simon buzzed immediately ("It was one of the worst acts I think I've seen on this show") but David couldn't resist a ride on the piano.

**Note: This will be at the top for a bit; new stories will appear below!** It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of remakes -- also known as the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of bad, it was the epoch of incredible; it was the season of fright, it was the season of dumb; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair -- and man, did we have a lot of it; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; some flicks took us directly to heaven, others took us the other way. The year was 2008, and it was pretty memorable.

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