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Top 10 Worst SNL Movies (and the Top 5 Best)

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          Saturday Night Live has been a cultural touchstone ever since it hit TV screens back on October 11th, 1975. A sketch comedy TV show that has gone from the counterculture to the culture of TV is notorious for its longevity and some of the most beloved comedic sketches of all time. Some of the characters and actors on the series were so lovable and hilarious that they left audiences asking, "Hey, I love these characters so much. What if they got their own movie?" Well, the audiences asked, the suits heard and the results? Not too good.           Yes, most movies based on Saturday Night Live are notorious for being truly terrible. Unfortunately for me, not too long ago, I decided to take the onus to watch every single one of them for a bar trivia night and then discovered the hard way that I did not have to watch all of these (usually awful) movies since it was a 5-question rundown and almost all of them revolved around ...
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Oscars Retrospective: A Man for All Seasons (39th Academy Awards Review)

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Opening Credits~Georges Delerue - A Man for All Seasons           The closing years of the Golden Age of Hollywood in the mid-1960s had a lot of genres that came, went and would never return again. We’ve discussed the epic comedies and the sex-fueled spy adventures but one of the most comparatively forgotten genres were the medieval drama. You might be inclined to think these fall under the “epic” banner akin to the Roman/Biblical epics (e.g. Cleopatra (1963)) but these were actually a bit smaller-scale than those. These are movies that adapted the politics of medieval Europe (or, let’s be honest here, medieval England), using them as a window to examine aspects of human nature since, back then, family drama and geopolitics were usually the exact same thing.           These movies can be a very acquired taste and seem to have run the gamut in how well-received they were at the time. Unlike the Biblical and Roman epics, which we...
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Success or Snub? A Man for All Seasons (39th Academy Awards Review Pt. 2)

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To see part 1, click here .   Batman Suite~Nelson Riddle - Batman: The Movie             The 39th Academy Awards ceremony is notable on a few accounts. The first two trivia facts are that this ceremony was actually in serious danger of being cancelled due to a strike by the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, which wasn’t (tragically) resolved until less than a half-hour before the show was scheduled to go on air. The level of stress in that control room must’ve been insane to have been a part of.           The other is that this was the first time that a Governor of California attended the ceremony though this record sounds less impressive when you remember that the recently-elected Governor of California was an actor who was part of the Academy and Hollywood establishment. There could be a case made that the political reason why A Man for All Seasons won the Academy Award for Best Picture was as an...
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