THE BOOTLEG FILES: SUSPENSE – A CASK OF AMONTILLADO
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil confirms that Bela Lugosi is dead…
Posted on May 17, 2013 by Phil Hall
NUCLEAR SAVAGE: THE ISLANDS OF SECRET PROJECT 4.1 (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 60 minutes |
This award-winning documentary by Adam Jonas Horowitz, which was originally broadcast on PBS, retraces the long-secret U.S. government program known as Project 4.1, which measured the effects of nuclear weapon-born radiation on the people of the Marshall Islands…
Posted on May 14, 2013 by Phil Hall
MISSISSIPPI: I AM
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  Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 46 minutes |
Mississippi is, admittedly, a bit slow to embrace progressive change…
Posted on May 13, 2013 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: A COACH FOR CINDERELLA
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil drives his Chevy to the levee…
Posted on May 10, 2013 by Phil Hall
MEL BROOKS: MAKE A NOISE (DVD)
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
The film traces Brooks’ rise from Borscht Belt joker to Sid Caesar’s gag writer to his own stardom opposite Carl Reiner in the popular 2000 Year Old Man comedy record series…
Posted on May 8, 2013 by Phil Hall
THE LINCOLN CHRONICLES (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 1740 minutes |
Holbrook’s Lincoln captures the complexity and humanity of the Civil War commander-in-chief with an extraordinary mix of uncommon subtlety and raw emotion…
Posted on May 7, 2013 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: THE GREAT GATSBY
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil picks a Daisy…
Posted on May 3, 2013 by Phil Hall
KING GEORGE VI – THE MAN BEHIND THE KING’S SPEECH (DVD)
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
This fine documentary offers a handsome tribute to an unlikely yet beloved head of state…
Posted on April 24, 2013 by Phil Hall
KIBURI
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  Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 4 minutes |
The 3D animation employed in this short is richly imaginative…
Posted on April 20, 2013 by Phil Hall
WINGS OF LIFE (DVD)
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
Meryl Streep provides a somewhat fey narration from the perspective of the plants that are pollinating…
Posted on April 19, 2013 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: THE ADDING MACHINE
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil digs up some badly cooked Elmer Rice…
Posted on April 19, 2013 by Phil Hall
PORTRAIT OF JASON
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 105 minutes |
Holliday’s open identification as a gay man was highly uncommon for the era, though some of his pride was clearly laced with self-loathing…
Posted on April 18, 2013 by Phil Hall
MARGARET THATCHER – THE IRON LADY (DVD)
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
Quite frankly, the real deal was infinitely more mesmerizing than Meryl Streep’s Oscar-winning imitation…
Posted on April 17, 2013 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: THE ANNETTE FUNICELLO SKIPPY COMMERCIALS
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil celebrates a beloved peanut butter advocate…
Posted on April 12, 2013 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: DOUG HENNING’S WORLD OF MAGIC III
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of memorable films and TV productions that can be found in unauthorized presentations. This week, Phil pulls a bootleg DVD out of a hat…
Posted on April 5, 2013 by Phil Hall
