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Written by James M. Tate / 7/28/2026 / No comments / alec baldwin , annie mcenroe , catherine o'hara , cindy daly , comedy , dick cavett , eighties , geena davis , horror , jeffrey jones , michael keaton , simmy bow , sylvia sidney , tim burton , winona ryder

TIM BURTON DIRECTING MICHAEL KEATON AS 'BEETLEJUICE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhg_PPdn9Uyk0DzgKlsWSG_xh-JoE00jtRKD4jn2h58xnnDmLST62IwzuxDyGA8rY1OPl5OPrYDjGJrPGLmGJIqu1qY0bFRT7HOgBqIRzgjphxb0rhfRna_HiKNxONDLbVCUqZmsDVHGkRokvV4_qt0w7NAmDDh_01cDExsPgAeBcPBQ50UgD5EQ83pHP/s2104/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-27%20at%201.19.38%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhg_PPdn9Uyk0DzgKlsWSG_xh-JoE00jtRKD4jn2h58xnnDmLST62IwzuxDyGA8rY1OPl5OPrYDjGJrPGLmGJIqu1qY0bFRT7HOgBqIRzgjphxb0rhfRna_HiKNxONDLbVCUqZmsDVHGkRokvV4_qt0w7NAmDDh_01cDExsPgAeBcPBQ50UgD5EQ83pHP/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-27%20at%201.19.38%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BEETLEJUICE Year: 1988 Rating: ****1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In Tim Burton's BEETLEJUICE, the King King Mark... that point when the titular creature finally shows up, in both cases exactly after forty-five minutes... provides an equal anticipation for the leading characters and the audience... <br><br>The audience is waiting for comic actor Michael Keaton to steal the movie, and the young married couple... who died and have become ghosts... needs him to save their perfect dream house... <br><span></span></p>

alec baldwin, annie mcenroe, catherine o'hara, cindy daly, comedy, dick cavett, eighties, geena davis, horror, jeffrey jones, michael keaton, simmy bow, sylvia sidney, tim burton, winona ryder

TIM BURTON DIRECTING MICHAEL KEATON AS 'BEETLEJUICE'

Title: BEETLEJUICE Year: 1988 Rating: ****1/2 In Tim Burton's BEETLEJUICE, the King King Mark... that point when the titular creature fi...

MENAHEM GOLAN'S 'LEPKE' WITH TONY CURTIS & ANJANETTE COMER

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVtna58Hp7gESf_DRS_EdXMrcUSluOhL0sL3PRoUx7Rs_nQWMt814v4d-CX090FvrGGC5TXFonV6BYd9o3OBjh_wLLnfDz0cWQuR5ZZWUIlvn9iatqamUegcs_yjCnaKzni-dwEbYZki0GcnD7IxFYNG-tp7rRVCPGV6chbTIWyAjfZawanMSbks_xjqch/s1388/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-14%20at%202.23.09%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="1388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVtna58Hp7gESf_DRS_EdXMrcUSluOhL0sL3PRoUx7Rs_nQWMt814v4d-CX090FvrGGC5TXFonV6BYd9o3OBjh_wLLnfDz0cWQuR5ZZWUIlvn9iatqamUegcs_yjCnaKzni-dwEbYZki0GcnD7IxFYNG-tp7rRVCPGV6chbTIWyAjfZawanMSbks_xjqch/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-14%20at%202.23.09%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: LEPKE Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A cross between yet another 1970's THE GODFATHER clone and a drive-in exploitation with sex and violence, future Cannon Films co-owner Menahem Golan directs Tony Curtis as LEPKE... beginning with a younger version with an intense Barry Miller in turn-of-the-century America, committing a crime and about to be locked up... a shame since more time should have been spent on those youthful years...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Instead, right when the titular Jewish mobster gets out, he's already a 50-something miscast Tony Curtis, who at one point talks Milton Berle into marrying docile daughter Anjanette Comer... and about thirty-minutes later, when the detectives start knocking, she's supposed to have realized her mistake at marrying a lethal crime boss...</p><p><span></span></p>

anjanette comer, barry miller, biopic, cannon, gianni russo, michael callan, milton berle, mobster, seventies, simmy bow, tony curtis, vic tayback, warner archives

MENAHEM GOLAN'S 'LEPKE' WITH TONY CURTIS & ANJANETTE COMER

Title: LEPKE Year: 1975 Rating: **1/2 A cross between yet another 1970's THE GODFATHER clone and a drive-in exploitation with sex and vi...

LARGE EARTH DISRUPTION FOR SUE LYON IN 'END OF THE WORLD'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kathe Cunha as Nun in END OF THE WORLD Year: 1977</u></td></tr>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">There’s something utterly bizarre and eerily realistic about the films of producer Charles Band, each and every grainy frame resembling a last known photograph. And despite the title and possible turnout, <u>END OF THE WORLD</u> is a science-fiction exploitation not fitting into the disaster genre...</span><br>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Instead centered on an excruciatingly mellow, deliberately slow-paced, investigative journey as the buried lead is, despite headlining Christopher Lee as a mysterious Father Pergado at a rural convent, obscure character-actor/b-movie leading man Kirk Scott as brilliant scientist Andrew Boran. Receiving random computerized signals that could be extremely bad (with green words reading "LARGE EARTH DISRUPTION" on an old black computer screen), he ventures into desert towns with his loyal and equally intrepid wife, Sylvia…</span><br>

charles band, christopher lee, cult, dean jagger, kirk scott, lew ayres, macdonald carey, science-fiction, simmy bow, sue lyon

LARGE EARTH DISRUPTION FOR SUE LYON IN 'END OF THE WORLD'

Kathe Cunha as Nun in END OF THE WORLD Year: 1977 There’s something utterly bizarre and eerily realistic about the films of producer Cha...

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