Arnold Week: True Lies (1994)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on April 22, 2020. Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is living two lives. To his wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) and his daughter (Eliza Dushku), he’s a boring computer salesman. But that’s all a cover for his real job, as an agent of the elite Omega Sector. He’s Bond […]
Arnold Week: Beretta’s Island (1993)
Franco Armando Beretta (Franco Columbu) is a retired Interpol officer who just so happens to train with Arnold Schwarzenegger, just like the real life Franco. The Sardinian Strongman had been in a few movies before — Stay Hungry, Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator, Big Top Pee-Wee — but now he was producing, writing and even directing a series of movies […]
Arnold Week: Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Warner Bros. owned the rights to the 1956 movie of this story, so they had planned a remake with Stephen Sommers directing and Brendan Fraser starring. That’s when this film got in motion, with Jackie Chan being paid $18 million for his role and was somehow made with one of the highest budgets a movie […]
DON’T ANSWER THE PHONE ON THE DIA DOUBLE FEATURE!
This Saturday night at 8 PM EST, Bill will be joined by Ben Sher, James Benge and Michael Ferrari to discuss two fantastic films! Watch the show live on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages. Up first — Party Line, which you can watch on Tubi and YouTube. Every week, we watch movies, we look at the ads, […]
Arnold Week: Jingle All the Way (1996)
As Arnold Schwarzenegger waited to be in Planet of the Apes — he’s still waiting — director Brian Levant* (who is a secret box office goldmine between this, Beethoven, The Flintstones and Are We There Yet?), producer Chris Columbus and writer Randy Kornfield got him for this tale of a father wo just wants to get his kid […]
Arnold Week: Last Action Hero (1993)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on February 28, 2020. After Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the monolith known as Arnold Schwarzenegger could do no wrong. But where do you go after you move from Austria to here with no money, take over the world of bodybuilder and then become the biggest movie star in […]
Arnold Week: Kindergarten Cop (1990)
LAPD detective John Kimble (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has been chasing after drug kingpin Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson) for years. He’s close, as a witness sees Crisp kill an informant after finding out where his wife Rachel (Penelope Ann Miller) and son (Christian and Joseph Cousins) are. Working with former teacher-turned-detective Phoebe O’Hara (Pamela Reed), Kimble becomes […]
Arnold Week: Total Recall (1990)
Producer Ronald Shusett purchased the rights to science fiction writer Philip K. Dick’s 1966 story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” for $1,000 after reading it in the April 1966 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Renaming it to Total Recall, he wrote the script with Dan O’Bannon to write the […]
Arnold Week: Twins (1988)
EDITOR’S NOTE: You know when you’ve seen too many movies? When you review something twice. Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to invest in himself by trying comedy. As Universal Pictures saw this as a major risk, he gave up his salary in exchange for a share of the film’s profits. Seeing as how this movie made $216.6 […]
Arnold Week: The Long Goodbye (1973)
Directed by Robert Altman and based on Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel, with a script by Leigh Brackett (who co-wrote the screenplay for Chandler’s The Big Sleep), who said that United Artists demanded that “either you take Elliott Gould or you don’t make the film. Elliott Gould was not exactly my idea of Philip Marlowe, but […]
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