CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Awakening (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Awakening was on the CBS Late Movie on October 31, 1986 and February 25, 1987. Based on Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars — which was also filmed as an episode of Mystery and Imagination as “The Curse of the Mummy,” Hammer’s Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb and the 90s movie Bram Stoker’s […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Matilda (1978)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Matilda was on the CBS Late Movie on December 23, 1985. When Melvin Simon Productions out up half the cash for this movie, they made nearly half a million in profit by selling the TV rights to CBS for $2.5 million, foreign sales which went around $1.6 million and American-International Pictures paid an advance of […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Legacy of Terror (1975)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker didn’t air on the CBS Late Movie because ABC packaged “it with “Demon In Lace” as the TV movie The Demon and the Mummy. “Among the philosophers, the great thinks and the common Joes of this world, no question is more controversial than truth. Remarkable as it may seem, I […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Prototype (1983)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Prototype was on the CBS Late Movie on June 5, 1987 and January 28 and May 12, 1988. Directed by David Greene (The People Next Door, Madame Sin) and written by the team of William Link and Richard Levinson, who wrote and created Columbo, Mannix, Blacke’s Magic, Scene of the Crime and Murder, She Wrote. […]
ARROW VIDEO 4K UHD RELEASE: Hugo (2011)
12-year-old Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) has lost his father in a fire and is trying to fix the automaton they made together but can’t find the heart-shaped key that it needs to become alive. He’s living in a railway station with his Uncle Claude (Ray Winstone), who has gone missing and to keep station master […]
MVD 4K UHD RELEASE: Rain Man (1988)
Directed by Barry Levinson and written by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow (in fact, the characterization of Raymond was based on Kim Peek and Bill Sackter, two savants that Morrow met and had already written about in the script for the movie Bill), Rain Man is the story of how Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) has a […]
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