With this weekend’s release of “The Exorcist: Believer,” filmgoers will once again witness young, possessed girls blaspheming, shrieking and levitating as their parents try to wrest a godless demon from their bodies. What they likely won’t see, however, is their fellow audience members fainting, vomiting and fleeing the theater in terror. That chaotic scene was … Read more
The late William Friedkin hits a home run with “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” a modern-day adaptation of the 1951 novel “The Caine Mutiny,” which spawned the 1954 big-screen classic starring Humphrey Bogart as Lieutenant Commander Philip Queeg, he of the nervously-twirled metal balls and questionable sanity. The movie premieres Oct. 6 on Paramount+ with Showtime … Read more
It was December 1973, and a rabid crowd of moviegoers stood in line in the sleet and rain for hours outside Manhattan’s Cinema 1 theater on Second Avenue. Some people lit bonfires to keep warm, while others threatened to storm the movie house if they couldn’t get in. Some went a different route, offering bribes … Read more