When a movie pitch contains the words "Based on the popular board game" you KNOW you're either in for a debacle of 'Battleship' (sorry, Peter Berg) proportions OR for the brilliantly subversive 1985 film that has become a cult classic and features the brilliant comedy performances of Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan, Michael McKean, and Lesley Ann Warren. The Brits called it 'Cluedo' just because they gotta be Brits. ALSO: Rants N Raves, This Week In 1980's TV Guide, Headlines and how Marcus Welby, M.D. is like floating away on a sweet cloud of nitrous oxide in the dentists chair.
262. Paul Newman in 'Nobody's Fool' (1994)
For my final episode of 2025, it's 'Nobody's Fool' one of my favorite films, and
261. Comfort Content For Troubled Times
The news is unrelenting. Shootings in Bondi Beach. Terror in the classrooms at
260. Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' (1960)
From a chance viewing of Saul Bass' iconic 'Psycho' titles on TCM sprung this ex
259. 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' Part 3
This final episode about Milos Forman's brilliant and deeper-than-expected maste
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