Tag: sean connery
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Hobbitses – A Tolkien history – Behind the Lord of the Rings in epic fantasy films
Typical! Wait decades for a film with hobbits in, and six come along at the same time! At least, that’s how it felt. Like many teens of the time, I had my copy of the single volume paperback edition of The Lord Of The Rings, shortly after it was first published in 1968, having…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter 9th edition (May 13th, 2020)
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in NewsletterThe app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. Next Mission Impossible – and Tom Cruise – Heads to the International Space Station Who gets to film the first full action movie in space? Who do you think? Tom Cruise gets…
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Remembering James Bond — Seeing Goldfinger live in the theater
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So what do Pierce Brosnan and I have in common? Both voted “Sexiest Man Alive” by People Magazine in 2001? Both about 6’2”? Both have had a license to kill? Only one of those three is correct but there is something else that we have in common… the first film we saw in the cinema…
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RunPee Weekly Newsletter – May 6th, 2020
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in NewsletterThe app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes. Movie Artemis Fowl Going Straight to Streaming June 12, and Why This Matters While Artemis Fowl is the first film announcing this move, it probably won’t be the last. This will be…
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My favorite Sean Connery role: Finding Forrester
Sean Connery is a Hollywood icon. Beyond his role as the godfather of 007 — James Bond himself — he performed in hit movies such as The Untouchables, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Man Who Would Be King, The Rock (where his character is basically the 007 who got caught), The Hunt for…
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Quiz – The Hunt for Red October
Hunter Killer is going gangbusters at the box office. Since everyone is excited about this movie, I should pay homage to the submarine genre by doing a quiz on The Hunt For Red October. [quiz-cat id=”10929″] The Hunt For Red October is a timeless piece of cinema history. I’ve seen this movie a number of times,…
