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Stanley Kubrick, Extending the Boundaries of Mainstream Commercial Filmmaking

Goomba Stomp Stanley Kubrick, Extending the Boundaries of Mainstream Commercial Filmmaking Stanley Kubrick the Studio Auteur Throughout the 1960s-early 1970s, a combination of financial desperation,...

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Similar but not the Same, Seven Anti-James Bond Movies You Haven’t Seen

Goomba Stomp Similar but not the Same, Seven Anti-James Bond Movies You Haven’t Seen The Bond franchise which has been with us so long has become so deeply entrenched in popular culture, that we often...

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The Career of Tony Scott and His Influence on the Film Industry

Goomba Stomp The Career of Tony Scott and His Influence on the Film Industry In the late 1970s and 1980s, composer Giorgio Moroder was often accused of trying to replace the orchestral movie soundtrack...

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Bad Boy Robert Mitchum and the Soul of a Poet

Goomba Stomp Bad Boy Robert Mitchum and the Soul of a Poet A Look Back at the Career of Robert Mitchum The title of Lee Server’s acclaimed 2002 biography, Robert Mitchum:  Baby I Don’t Care...

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The Career of Roger Ebert

Goomba Stomp The Career of Roger Ebert Every Film Critic Owes A Bit to Roger Ebert I recently wrote a profile on the late, great Robert Mitchum.  In the course of researching the piece, I came across...

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Remembering My Friend, Sonny Grosso

Goomba Stomp Remembering My Friend, Sonny Grosso A Tribute to Sonny Grosso From this past Thursday’s New York Post: “Former NYPD detective Sonny Grosso, whose police work with partner Eddie Egan was...

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Stepping Over the Line: ‘Across 110th Street’

Goomba Stomp Stepping Over the Line: ‘Across 110th Street’ Spotlight on 70's blaxploitation films The post Stepping Over the Line: ‘Across 110th Street’ appeared first on Goomba Stomp.

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Kirk Douglas and the Land of The Giants

Goomba Stomp Kirk Douglas and the Land of The Giants Remembering the Career of Kirk Douglas This is not another piece commemorating Kirk Douglas on his passing last week at the age of 103.  Let’s face...

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11 Overlooked Horror Films Recommended for Halloween

Goomba Stomp 11 Overlooked Horror Films Recommended for Halloween 31 Days of Horror The post 11 Overlooked Horror Films Recommended for Halloween appeared first on Goomba Stomp.

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George Lucas v. Steven Spielberg: Maestros of the Blockbuster

Goomba Stomp George Lucas v. Steven Spielberg: Maestros of the Blockbuster George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.  Four and a half decades after their breakout successes, they remain arguably two of the...

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‘Vanishing Point’ is the Perfect Movie for Screenwriting Class. Here’s Proof...

Goomba Stomp ‘Vanishing Point’ is the Perfect Movie for Screenwriting Class. Here’s Proof Why… Featured image by Yuyo Eldeivi. Vanishing Act The calendar said the 1960s were a year gone, but the...

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Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino: Whose Streets Are Meaner?

Goomba Stomp Magazine Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino: Whose Streets Are Meaner? Quentin Tarantino Spotlight I’ve got Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino on my mind these days, mostly because of...

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The Doctor Is In: Why Hollywood Spends So Much Time and Money “Fixing”...

Goomba Stomp Magazine The Doctor Is In: Why Hollywood Spends So Much Time and Money “Fixing” Screenplays In terms of money spent, time invested, pages turned out, there’s more script “doctoring” than...

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The Disappearing War Film

Goomba Stomp Magazine The Disappearing War Film They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, neither shall...

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Grindhouse Cinema and Why it Wouldn’t Die!

Goomba Stomp Magazine Grindhouse Cinema and Why it Wouldn’t Die! 31 Days of Horror The post Grindhouse Cinema and Why it Wouldn’t Die! appeared first on Goomba Stomp Magazine .

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A Tribute to the Legendary Ray Harryhausen: Master of Illusion

Goomba Stomp Magazine A Tribute to the Legendary Ray Harryhausen: Master of Illusion 31 Days of Horror The post A Tribute to the Legendary Ray Harryhausen: Master of Illusion appeared first on Goomba...

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Remembering the First Time Watching The Magnificent Seven

Goomba Stomp Magazine Remembering the First Time Watching <em>The Magnificent Seven</em> They were seven - And they fought like seven hundred! The post Remembering the First Time Watching...

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That Time I Wrote ‘The Versace Murder’ Movie Nobody Saw

Goomba Stomp Magazine That Time I Wrote ‘The Versace Murder’ Movie Nobody Saw A recent Entertainment Weekly piece looking at the upcoming TV season had me smiling, but not in an, “Oh, how interesting!”...

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The Screenwriting Classroom: Teaching the Unteachable

Goomba Stomp Magazine The Screenwriting Classroom: Teaching the Unteachable [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Talking up the deal, you were excited and the producer was excited and the young studio...

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Stephen King Box Office Records Can Only be Described as Erratic

Goomba Stomp Magazine Stephen King Box Office Records Can Only be Described as Erratic All Hail The King Though primarily a literary figure, Stephen King has enjoyed one of the most successful...

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