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Robin’s Underrated Gems: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
One of the worst signs that there are way too remakes in Hollywood these days is when you look at a famous director s filmography and notice that a large chunk of his movies from the same time period have … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Nick Frost in an Aero Bar Commercial
Today is Nick Frost’s birthday and I’ve been trying track down footage of the British corporate sales training videos that he apparently acted in at the beginning of his career, which had titles like Chris Carter and the Coverplan Challenge … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: 10-Year Old Josh Hutcherson in a Time Warner Cable Commercial
Well, the long-awaited screen adaptation of The Hunger Games has just opened in theaters, and while I personally didn’t care for it and thought it was pretty much just a sanitized PG-13 version of the Japanese classic, Battle Royale, it … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Tim Robbins on “Santa Barbara”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmSzmBTU4_U I’ve already featured a lot of famous actors who got their start on soap operas, but poor Tim Robbins didn’t even get to play a fully fleshed-out character, and was instead relegated to a brief bit part as “Man” … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Kim Basinger in a Beer-Enriched Shampoo Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tviw2VImS6M This 1978 commercial for Body on Tap Shampoo is particularly interesting not just because it features a young Kim Basinger, but because it bills itself as “beer-enriched shampoo”. Miss Basinger even mentions that the shampoo is brewed with one-third … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: William H. Macy in “The Boy Who Loved Trolls”
Man, if you made a movie with this title today, everybody would just assume this was the story of a boy who spent too much on Internet comment boards. But, alas, way back in 1984, trolls were merely just known … Continue reading
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25 of the Worst Line Readings in Cinema History
There’s no detailed introduction necessary here. Quite simply, here are clips of 25 of the very worst line readings ever captured on film. Both famous and unknown actors will be on display, but in each case, you have to ask: … Continue reading
Before They Were Stars (5-for-1 Special): Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Ryan Gosling, Justin Timberlake & Keri Russell on “The Mickey Mouse Club”
I don’t think anything is a bigger “Before They Were Stars” goldmine than The Mickey Mouse Club circa 1993-95, as their cast contained no fewer than FIVE kids who went on to much bigger things: Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Ryan … Continue reading
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Robin’s Underrated Gems: Coffy (1973)
It seems that a lot of my columns have had a blaxploitation theme to them lately. I recently did a “Robin’s Underrated Crap” column on the mind-boggingly inept 1977 blaxploitation film, The Guy from Harlem, which was preceded by an … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Norman Reedus in a Bjork Music Video
Norman Reedus got his start in acting by appearing in a lot of music videos in the mid-nineties for such artists as R.E.M., Radiohead and… Bjork?! Yep, hard as it is believe, the same badass who played Murphy McManus and … Continue reading
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