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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 3h

Oct 8 1982 Q THE WINGED SERPENT opens in NY. Dir. Larry Cohen. Two NYPD cops & an opportunistic smalltime crook face off against flying dragon-like lizard terrorizing the city. Schlocky, witty, fast-paced, gore-laden B movie classic with a bravura performance by Michael Moriarty.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 3h

Oct 8 2003 MYSTIC RIVER opens in NY. Dir. Clint Eastwood. In Boston 3 former friends, still haunted by a 1975 childhood tragedy, are reunited years later by a daughter's brutal murder. Magisterial, brooding mystery thriller invested with grim conviction by outstanding ensemble.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 3h

Oct 8 1999 THE LIMEY opens. Dir. Steven Soderbergh. Paying due homage to Point Blank's construct of fragmented time & perspective, pulpy, LA-set crime thriller finds Terence Stamp in late career rebound as sardonic ex-con Brit looking to avenge his daughter's suspicious death.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 3h

Oct 8 1986 PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED opens in NY. Dir. Francis Coppola. After fainting at her 1985 class reunion, a 40-plus Peggy Sue wakes to find herself 18 again in high school 1960. Kathleen Turner dazzles in delightfully airy fantasy about 2nd chances & the road not taken.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 3h

Oct 8 1975 HARD TIMES (a.k.a.Streetfighter) opens in NY. Wri. & dir. Walter Hill. Lean, masterful, period rich exercise in myth making with superb Charles Bronson as laconic Depression-era drifter eking out a living as bare knuckle brawler. James Coburn aces as hustler/promoter.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 3h

Oct 8 1969 BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE opens in NY. Dir. Paul Mazursky. With the late '60s sexual revolution in full swing, 2 well off, married SoCal couples discover that free love & infidelity has its drawbacks. Affectionate, sharply observed social satire becomes huge BO hit.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 5h

Oct 7 2011 REAL STEEL opens. Dir. Shawn Levy. In the near future when robots have replaced human boxers in the ring, a debt-ridden former boxer & his son come across an old discarded junkyard robot ripe for restoration. Hugh Jackman turns silly premise into grand entertainment.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oct 7 1982 NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN opens. Dir. Irvin Kershner. Sean Connery reprises signature role in lacklustre, pedestrian, non-Eon Thunderball remake. Sorely missing iconic gun barrel intro, Bond theme & familiar franchise faces. Film coasts to BO success on star's charisma.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oct 7 2011 THE IDES OF MARCH opens. George Clooney directs & stars in riveting political drama set in the weeks leading up to a mid west presidential primary. Campaign managers Ryan Gosling, Phillip Seymour Hoffman & Paul Giamatti give backroom machinations a thriller's edge.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oct 7 1977 OH, GOD opens. Dir. Carl Reiner. Smartly scripted, fun-filled comedy with singer John Denver debuting as mild mannered supermarket manager whose life gets upended when God – in the shape of George Burns – appears & selects him to be his messenger. Huge box office hit.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oct 7 1971 THE FRENCH CONNECTION opens in NY. Dir. William Friedkin's landmark, multi-Oscar winning NYC cop/crime classic with Gene Hackman & Roy Scheider as couple of prickly, ball-busting NYPD narcs obsessed with busting a drug smuggling ring headed by elusive French national.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oct 7 1959 PILLOW TALK opens in NY. Dir. Michael Gordon. A shared t'phone party line cues meet cute romance between happily single NYC int. decorator & a wolfish playboy songwriter. Fun, stylishly frolicsome 1st pairing of Doris Day & Rock Hudson becomes year's biggest BO hit.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oct 7 1954 SUDDENLY opens. Dir. Lewis Allen. In the titular rural CA town, 3 men take over a suburban family home to use as a vantage point to assassinate the US Pres. arriving at the local train station. Noir-themed, low budget B picture with a solid perform. by Frank Sinatra.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oct 6 2006 THE DEPARTED opens. Dir.Martin Scorsese. Hong Kong’s 2002 gritty policier Infernal Affairs gets an exceptional, star-studded US remake with Leonardo DiCaprio & Matt Damon as competing Boston undercover cops (one corrupt) beholden to Jack Nicholson’s Irish crime boss.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oct 6 1978 GOIN’ SOUTH opens. Jack Nicholson directs & stars in an amiably comic Western centering on a rascally, 2nd rate outlaw who is saved from a town hanging when a local girl agrees to marry him & help mend his ways. Frivolous, diverting jape with debuting Mary Steenburgen.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oct 6 1978 MIDNIGHT EXPRESS opens. Dir. Alan Parker. Brad Davis stars in raw, grimly compelling, selectively fictionalized account of young drug smuggling American's 1970 incarceration & eventual escape from Turkish prison. Oscars for writer Oliver Stone & Giorgio Moroder score.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oct 6 1978 THE BIG FIX opens. Dir. Jeremy Paul Kagan. Vastly under-rated, little seen counter culture gem with Richard Dreyfuss doing his best work as former 1960s Berkeley radical now a weekend dad & private eye investigating political chicanery involving an old protest buddy.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oct 6 1978 WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE? (a.k.a. Too Many Chefs) opens. Dir. Ted Kotcheff. Europe's cordon bleu chefs are getting murdered prompting ex-spouses Jacqueline Bisset & George Segal to re-team for some amateur sleuthing. Wacky witty romp with Robert Morely.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oct 6 1976 MARATHON MAN opens in NY. Dir.John Schlesinger. Gripping classic '70s thriller with Dustin Hoffman as NY grad student drawn into sinister conspiracy fronted by treacherous govt. agent & Lawrence Olivier's chilling, malevolent ex-Nazi death camp doctor. "Is it safe?"

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oct 6 1960 SURFSIDE 6, one of 4 Warner Bros detective TV series, begins a 2 season run on ABC. Troy Donohue, Van Williams & Lee Patterson as private eyes operating from a houseboat moored on sun-drenched Miami Beach. With Diane McBain.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oct 6 1960 SPARTACUS opens in NY. Dir. Stanley Kubrick, wri. Dalton Trumbo. Towering, cast of thousands sword & sandal epic with Kirk Douglas as eponymous Thracian gladiator leading futile slave uprising against Roman Republic circa 71 BC. Peter Ustinov wins Best Supp. Oscar.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oct 5 1966 SECONDS opens. Dir. John Frankenheimer. A mysterious company offers to transform a banker’s dull, dour life with a surgically enhanced “rebirth”. Rock Hudson is riveting in a creepy, surreal piece of psychological sci-fi horror now considered to be a gothic classic.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oct 5 2007 MICHAEL CLAYTON opens in NY. Dir. Tony Gilroy. Outstanding corporate legal thriller with George Clooney in a career high performance as a jaded NYC law firm “fixer” drawn into a dangerous multi-billion dollar malfeasance imbroglio involving multi-national chemical co.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oct 5 1990 DESPERATE HOURS opens. Dir. Michael Cimino. Stylish albeit overwrought remake of the 1955 Humphrey Bogart classic with Mickey Rourke oozing palpable menace as an escaped convict who, with 2 accomplices, home invades & terrorizes Anthony Hopkins’ suburban family.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oct 5 1979 10 opens. Dir. Blake Edwards. Dudley Moore is a comedic force of nature as 42 year old, mid-life crisis stricken H'wood composer who becomes obsessively infatuated with Bo Derek's newly married young beauty. Endlessly uproarious rom-com becomes the year's runaway hit.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oct 5 1978 THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL opens. Dir.Franklin J. Schaffner. Far-fetched but tautly constructed thriller with Lawrence Olivier as a Nazi hunter racing against time to thwart group of ex-Nazis, led by Gregory Peck's evil Dr. Mengele, from creating a cadre of cloned Hitlers.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oct 5 1977 VALENTINO opens in NY. Dir. Ken Russell. Celebrated Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev smirks, smolders (& dances) in extravagantly opulent, often lurid & orgiastic biopic of the titular 1920s silent movie superstar. With Michelle Phillips & Leslie Caron.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oct 5 1962 DR. NO premieres in London. Dir. Terence Young. And so it begins. With his 3 word introduction cuing Monty Norman's ominous, iconic theme, Sean Connery becomes the definitive embodiment of Ian Fleming's creation & launches cinema's most famous & enduring franchise.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oct 5 1961 BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S opens in NY. Dir. Blake Edwards. Frothy adapt. of Capote novella with Audrey Hepburn as country gal made good as gold-digging NYC socialite/escort who falls for George Peppard's destitute writer. Oscars for Henry Mancini score & song Moon River.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oct 4 1991 RICOCHET opens. Dir. Russell Mulcahy. Propulsive, flashy urban crime thriller with Denzel Washington as a former cop now assistant DA who discovers that the lethal hit man (John Lithgow) he put behind bars 7 years ago has escaped & bent on revenge.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oct 4 1996 THAT THING YOU DO opens. Tom Hanks writes, directs & stars in a winning, nostalgia brimming, pastel colored confection charting a 1964 Philly garage band's brief flirtation with one hit wonder fame on the back of the affectionately retro title song. Great fun.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oct 4 1991 SHOUT opens. Dir. Jeffrey Hornaday. Dire musical rom-com with a slumming, pre-Pulp Fiction John Travolta as a music teacher who incurs the wrath of the headmaster of a 1955 West Texas Boys Home after he introduces his young charges to something called rock & roll.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oct 4 1985 JAGGED EDGE opens. Dir. Richard Marquand. A defence attorney finds herself falling for her client, a handsome newspaper editor accused of murdering his heiress wife. Potent, polished, red herring strewn psychological courtroom thriller with Glenn Close & Jeff Bridges.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oct 4 1962 THE LONGEST DAY opens. Epic, vignette-driven, quasi-doco-style recreation of June 6 1944 Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, culled from Cornelius Ryan book by 5 writers & 5 directors; with 43 int'national stars in telling cameos. Oscars for Cinematography & SFX.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oct 3 1986 TOUGH GUYS opens. Dir. Jeff Kanew. Burt Lancaster & Kirk Douglas bring some faded star power to a low wattage caper centering on 2 70 year old former gangsters who, released after 30 years in prison, find it’s not easy to return to a life of crime in a changed world.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oct 3 2004 JANET LEIGH, veteran H’wood actress dies in LA aged 77. Debuting in 1947, her 5 decade, 53 film career includes classics Touch of Evil, Psycho & The Manchurian Candidate. Her late ‘50s marriage to Tony Curtis produces Halloween scream queen actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oct 3 1995 O.J.SIMPSON, former Hall of Fame footballer & sometime actor, is found not guilty of the June 12, 1994 murder of his wife Nicole Brown & restaurant waiter Ronald Goldman. Verdict is considered to be one the greatest miscarriages of justice in the nation's history.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oct 3 1980 THE ELEPHANT MAN opens in NY. Dir. David Lynch. Saved from carnival freak show by kindly surgeon, a cultured, badly deformed young man becomes the toast of Victorian London's upper class. Anthony Hopkins & John Hurt bring poignancy & dramatic focus to true story.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oct 3 1993 SHORT CUTS Opens in NY. Robert Altman's multi character, Nashville-like compendium of nine Raymond Carver short stories of love, death & redemption set in LA's sprawling, sunburnt suburbia. Starry ensemble cast. Joint winner of Golden Lion at 1993 Venice FF.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oct 3 1980 ONE TRICK PONY opens. Dir. Robert M. Young. Paul Simon (without Garfunkel) writes & stars as former one hit wonder folk/rock muso reduced to gigging small clubs whilst looking for 2nd act comeback. Modest, somewhat glum character study with Lou Reed in brief cameo.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oct 3 1965 BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING opens in NY. Dir. Otto Preminger. Young London mother engages the police in a frantic search for her missing (& quite possibly non-existent) child. Masterfully constructed psychological thriller squanders its unsettling mood with a WTF finale.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oct 3 1941 THE MALTESE FALCON opens in NY. Wri./Dir. John Huston adapts Dashiell Hammett. The prototypical film noir with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, cynical, hard-boiled San Fran. PI dodging duplicitous femme fatales & unsavory lowlifes in search of the eponymous MacGuffin.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oct 2 1962 COMBAT! premieres on ABC TV. Classic TV drama series of the 1960s follows a squad of US soldiers fighting the Germans in France. Rick Jason & Vic Morrow head up 152 episodes. Pre-fame directors include Robert Altman, Richard Donner & Tom Gries.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oct 2 1977 JULIA opens. Dir. Fred Zinnemann. Reverential, mostly lifeless rendering of novelist Lillian Hellman’s time jumping, possibly apocryphal, WW2-set account of her enduring friendship with Julia, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi activist. With Jane Fonda & Vanessa Redgrave.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oct 2 2015 THE MARTIAN opens. Dir. Ridley Scott. Accidently left behind on the Martian surface, astronaut Matt Damon sets out to prolong his base's meagre life-saving resources while NASA considers a rescue. Entertaining, life-affirming sci-fi with redeeming comic touches.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oct 2 1985 ROCK HUDSON, H'wood leading man of the 50s, 60s & 70s, dies aged 59 from AIDS-related complications. Handsome, popular star's 3 decade, 66 film career includes key roles in Giant, A Farewell To Arms, Seconds, Ice Station Zebra & 3 frothy rom-coms with Doris Day.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oct 2 1981 PATERNITY opens. Dir. David Steinberg. Tired, perfunctory would-be comedy with Burt Reynolds as a 44 y. old bachelor who goes looking for a suitable surrogate to carry the child he’s started hankering for. The lovely Beverley D’Angelo proves to be the ideal candidate.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oct 2 1974 THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE opens. Dir. Joseph Sargent. One of the great, quintessentially NYC crime capers of the '70s with Walter Matthau as droll transit cop negotiating with 4 men holding city to ransom after hijacking packed subway train. Huge BO hit.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oct 2 1968 COOGAN'S BLUFF opens. Dir. Don Siegel. Clint Eastwood is a Dirty Harry in the making as ball-busting, Ariz. deputy sheriff pissing off the NYPD honchos with his city-wide, protocol-trashing search for an escaped prisoner he was sent to extradite. With Susan Clark.

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movierickblaine.bsky.social @movierickblaine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oct 2 1959 THE TWILIGHT ZONE prem.on CBS. You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, sight & mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas; you've just crossed into The Twilight Zone.

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