Lionsgate hosts a free online ‘Dirty Dancing’ screening on April 24

For millions of movie fans, August 1987 was the time of their lives!  “Dirty Dancing” opened, and the story of dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) and his young partner Baby Houseman (Jennifer Grey) took the country by storm, and record sales soared through the roof too. Well, it’s not 1987 anymore, but Lionsgate found a time machine and will take us back! On Friday at 9pm EST / 6pm PST, Lionsgate hosts a free “Dirty Dancing screening on its Lionsgate Movies YouTube page! Just click this link, and that’s…

‘All the Wild Horses’ wins by a comfortable margin

“All the Wild Horses” – The Kentucky Derby began in 1875, and this 1.25-mile race is dubbed the most exciting two minutes in sports. On the other side of the world, Mongolia hosts an altogether different event.  The Mongol Derby is one thousand kilometers long and runs across the country’s prairies.  The contest takes eight days to complete and is known as the longest and toughest horse race in the world. If the Run for the Roses is an ultra-brisk sprint, then the Mongol Derby is a marathon of the…

Just Because Wednesday, Movies at Home: ‘Fail Safe’

It’s Wednesday, so AHFW is featuring one of our favorite movies.  Why?  Just because. This week, we’ll set our movie time machine back to 1964, the year of Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”.   Sidney Lumet’s “Fail Safe” has a curiously similar plot, but without the zany comic tones.  This exceedingly-serious, straight-forward cold war picture – starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau – does carries a “Twilight Zone” look and feel but with no paranormal phenomenons. Here, the grave spectacle is six American bombers inadvertently receive an order to drop nuclear bombs…