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Paul Mazursky's 1986 comedy "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" is a sharp indictment of ultra-moneyed yuppie culture, which was running rampant during the Reagan administration. Culturally speaking, the mid 1980s saw a redoubled effort to enrich the already-wealthy and encourage rich people to become obsessed with conspicuous consumption. Many, many films and TV shows about Beverly Hills were released at this time, delving deep into the cockroach nest where America's wealthy classes gathered and cannibalized each other.

Prominent among these was Mazursky's film about a rich family, the Whitemans, that recently became wealthy thanks to a wire hanger manufacturing empire. The family are all empty and unhappy. Matriarch Barbara (Bette Midler) is attempting to fill her emptiness with increasingly strange renditions of New Age spirituality, while patriarch Dave (Richard Dreyfuss) is filling his own emptiness by having an affair with the family's live-in maid, Carmen (Elizabeth Peña). Their child...

A little while back, we ran a special Wtf episode about the 1979 Disney movie, The Black Hole, an uncommonly adult film for the family-friendly studio. It kicked off an experiment for the studio to move into adult fare, eventually spawning no less than three subsidiaries that produced some of the most influential movies of the 80s, 90s and 2000s. These off-shoots paved the way for Disney’s place as the most powerful motion picture studio in the world, with them owning Lucasfilm, Pixar and the MCU. This summer, the Mouse House released an uncommonly bold MCU movie, Deadpool & Wolverine, which sported an R-rating, and has done blockbuster business. Many are wondering if perhaps this could have the way for Disney to tackle some adult fare, but it wouldn’t be the first time, and maybe now is the time to bring back Touchstone Pictures.

So, what’s Touchstone Pictures...

Dave Filoni’s obsession with wolves is pretty well-known among the Star Wars community, as the filmmaker has not been very subtle with their inclusion in his Star Wars filmography. From naming one of the Clone Commanders Wolffe and his personal squad The Wolfpack to incorporating species of Space Wolves with insane Force abilities, Filoni’s dedication to wolves is admirable.

Following his obsession with them, the current Chief creative officer of Lucasfilm recalled George Lucas once teased him during the making of Clone Wars.

George Lucas Teased Dave Filoni Following His Obsession With Wolves Dave Filoni. | Credit: Josh Hallett/Wikimedia Commons.

Wolves have been always fascinating to Dave Filoni since he watched 1983’s Never Cry Wolf, which opened his eyes “to the world and the environment and wolves”. Since delving into the realm of Star Wars, the Ahsoka showrunner has put his love for the animal on full display,...

The hardest blow is the feeling that their work doesn’t matter as much as other filmmaking disciplines. That was the sentiment shared by a panel of veteran artisans who represent the craft categories that will no longer be presented live at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony on March 27.

“What offends me is that somebody in the Academy would claim to or imply that they know which crafts are more important and more deserving of respect than time than other crafts,” said Randy Thom, a two-time Oscar winner for sound. Thom was among the participants in the “Variety Artisans: Special Report” virtual panel, moderated by Jazz Tangcay, Variety‘s Senior Artisans Editor, to examine the fallout from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ decision to reformat the Oscars ceremony this year.

Like the other panelists, Thom is no stranger to the Academy Awards. He’s been nominated...

Jack Couffer, the renowned cinematographer, writer, director, producer and naturalist who earned an Oscar nomination for his lensing of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, died at a skilled nursing facility on July 30. He was 96.

His son Mike Couffer confirmed the news in a recent Facebook post, in which he referred to his father as “the most important person in my life.”

Born on December 7, 1924 in Upland, California, Jack Couffer long looked to blend his interests in cinematography and natural history, also shooting films such as Secrets of Life, Edge of Fury, and The Savage Eye, along with 11 episodes of the series The Magical World of Disney.

Couffer also wrote and directed episodes of Magical World of Disney, along with films including The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle and Ring of Bright Water.

He also worked, over the course of his career, as a second unit director on 1985 classic Out of Africa and other titles,...

This favorite animal film takes a half-step sideways out of the cute animal subgenre: the delightful Mij is no super-otter, just an ordinary playful garden-variety otter, as an Otter oughta be. (cough) Champion mellow English couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers have put together a film guaranteed to lower your blood pressure. But see it first before deciding it’s for your kids, as reality is not sugarcoated in its uplifting, but certainly not sentimentalized, view of our place in a world that still has some animals left alive.

Ring of Bright Water

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1969 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date May 21, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Peter Jeffrey, Jameson Clark, Helena Gloag.

Cinematography: Wolfgang Suschitsky

Film Editor: Reginald Mills

Original Music: Frank Cordell

Written by Jack Couffer and Bill Travers from a book by Gavin Maxwell

Produced by Joseph Strick

Directed by Jack...

The 2018 Telluride Film Festival will feature the world premieres of Joel Edgerton’s “Boy Erased,” starring Lucas Hedges and Nicole Kidman; David Lowery’s “The Old Man & the Gun,” featuring a performance that Robert Redford said will be his last; and Yann Demange’s “White Boy Rick,” with Matthew McConaughey and Bruce Dern.

On Thursday, Telluride organizers announced a lineup that includes those films, as well as a number of others that are premiering at the Venice Film Festival, including Damien Chazelle’s “First Man,” Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite.”

Other films at the festival will include Jason Reitman’s drama about presidential candidate Gary Hart, “The Front Runner”; Marielle Heller’s “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” with Melissa McCarthy; Karyn Kusama’s “Destroyer,” with Kidman; Mike Leigh’s period drama “Peterloo”; and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or winner, “Shoplifters.”

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Longtime Hollywood publicist Dick Delson died following a lengthy illness Sunday. He was 81. His death at an assisted-car facility in Yarmouth, Maine, was announced by niece Joanna Delson.

A member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, Delson had more than 50 years of public relations, advertising, promotional and marketing experience. Delson supervised the press activities of hundreds of major motion pictures, independent films, television series and specials, many involving campaigns for the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2003, he and George Lucas were recipients of the Golden Satellite Award from the International Press Academy for Outstanding Service to the Entertainment Industry.

In addition to fronting his own Delson and Associates La-based firm, Delson teamed with the late Murray Weissman on Weissman Delson Communications from ’98-2005.

Prior to forming his own agency, Delson was National Director of Publicity/Promotion and Television Advertising for Walt Disney Productions,...

Ryan Lambie Dec 7, 2016

Space horror in The Black Hole. Animated death in The Black Cauldron. Ryan looks back at a unique period in Disney's filmmaking history...

When George Lucas started writing Star Wars in the early 70s, the space saga was intended to fill a void left behind by westerns, pirate movies and the sci-fi fantasy of old matinee serials. "Disney had abdicated its rein over the children's market," Lucas once said, according to Peter Biskind's book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, "and nothing had replaced it."

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Indeed, Disney was one of many Hollywood studios that Lucas had approached with Star Wars and they, just like Universal, United Artists and everyone other than 20th Century Fox boss Alan Ladd Jr, had turned it down flat.

One of the most celebrated film makers of the last four decades has died. Here’s how the New York Times reported it….

Curtis Hanson, the film director whose adaptation of the James Ellroy noir novel “L.A. Confidential” won him an Academy Award, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 71.

The death was confirmed by Officer Jenny Houser, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department. She said that officers had been called to the house shortly before 5 p.m., and that Mr. Hanson had died of natural causes.

Julie Mann, his business manager, said Mr. Hanson had been struggling for some time with a form of dementia.

Let’s take a look at his long career. His first screen credit is for helping to adapt H.P. Lovecraft’s short story in the 1970 American International Pictures’ The Dunwich Horror starring Sandra Dee and Dean Stockwell.

Curtis Hanson--Confidentially

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Curtis Hanson was my first interview with a fellow film buff and film journalist. He was nice enough to sit down with me twice, first at the Rose Cafe in Venice, then at a lunch spot in the Marina, the name of which has been lost to time. He was then kind enough to invite me to the world premiere of "L.A. Confidential" at the Chinese Theater as his guest, my first time on the red carpet at a real-life Hollywood premiere, and called me after this piece ran to thank me personally. A nice man. Hanson, and co-writer Brian Helgeland, would go on to win Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars for "L.A. Confidential."

Years later, I ran into Hanson at a book signing party for Pat York that was held in Westwood. I approached him and reminded him of our interview a decade or so earlier.

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We recently journeyed to Pixar to take a look behind the scenes of The Good Dinosaur. Ryan goes behind the scenes of Pixar's latest.

Over 20 years of feature filmmaking, Pixar has specialised in making us care about the unlikeliest of characters: toys, cars, fish, insects, the emotions rattling around inside the head of an ordinary school girl. It all began, of course, with Toy Story, the 1995 film which transformed the face of animated movies. Its humour, pathos and technical ingenuity were all so natural, so effortless, that it’s easy to forget just how ground-breaking John Lasseter’s film really was.

With each subsequent film, Pixar has explored different themes and set itself new challenges; it’s worth noting that, of the 15 feature-length movies Pixar has released so far, only four are sequels. Pixar’s most recent film, Inside Out, is the latest example of how adept...

Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2016: 'Viva' with Héctor Medina. Multicultural Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2016 submissions Nearly ten years ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences changed a key rule regarding entries for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar;* since then, things have gotten quite colorful. Just yesterday, Sept. 16, '15, Ireland submitted Paddy Breathnach's Viva – a Cuban-set drama spoken in Spanish. And why not? To name a couple more “multicultural and multinational” entries this year alone: China's submission, with dialogue in Mandarin and Mongolian, is Wolf Totem, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud – a Frenchman. And Germany's entry, Labyrinth of Lies, was directed by Giulio Ricciarelli, who happens to be a German-based, Italian-born stage and TV actor. 'Viva': Sexual identity in 21st-century Cuba Executive produced by Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro (Traffic), Viva tells the story of an 18-year-old Havana drag-club worker,...

If I were the one running Warner Bros, I must admit it would not have occurred to me to pursue the idea of a sequel to 2011's "Dolphin Tale". After all, the first film was the story of how a dolphin lost her tail in a crab trap, only to find her way to an aquarium and animal rescue facility in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she was eventually fitted with an innovative prosthetic. Story told, right? The sequel answers that question with a resounding no, and in doing so, it serves to highlight just how difficult it is for people, even with the best of intentions, to keep these animals in captivity and in good health at the same time. In its own small way, the film is part of the same conversation as "Blackfish," making the case that it's important work, but under carefully controlled circumstances only, and never...

Congressman Barney Frank was best known for his significant status as the first openly gay U.S. Congressman, but he was also known for his quick wit and sharp tongue. Infusing his political influence with his own unique personality, directors Sheila Canavan and Michael Chandler's documentary "Compared to What? The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank" manage to get some insight into the complexities behind this politically groundbreaking man. Tell us about yourselves. Sheila Canavan was born and raised in Boston. Mike Chandler was raised in Portland, Maine. Sheila produced, and Mike directed the award-winning "Knee Deep." Together, we directed and produced "Compared to What." "Compared to What" is Sheila's directorial debut. Mike has produced, written and directed numerous documentaries and edited features including "Amadeus," "Never Cry Wolf" and "Mishima." Sheila’s other film work includes "Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven" and "Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey." What was your.

Oscar statuette - Gordon E. Sawyer Award 2014 - for ‘Godzilla,’ ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ visual effects artist Peter Anderson The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that visual effects supervisor and director of photography Peter W. Anderson will receive the Gordon E. Sawyer Award (an Oscar statuette) "for technological contributions that have brought credit to the industry" at the Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation on Saturday, February 15, 2014, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in, where else, Beverly Hills. Portions of the presentation will be included in the Oscar 2014 telecast to be hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. Listed on the IMDb as Peter Anderson, the next Gordon E. Sawyer Award recipient has been in the film business for nearly four decades. His earliest IMDb film credit is for the visual effects in Berry Gordy and Jack Wormser’s 1975 romantic drama Mahogany, starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams,...

The far-from prolific Jack Clayton has the right to be considered a great filmmaker purely on the basis of The Innocents, The Pumpkin Eater and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, but only the first of these is well-known, and the rest of his scattershot career shows little of the thematic consistency beloved of auteurists. His nature was to be interested in a wide range of things, and he didn't make enough movies to tie them all together into an artistic personality coherent enough to suit critics. But interested parties should check out Neil Sinyard's excellent study of the filmmaker.

The Disney Corporation was going through a somewhat incoherent spell itself in the early eighties, commissioning unusually sombre, bizarre, scary or adult movies which it then didn't know how to sell: Altman's Popeye, Carroll Ballard's Never Cry Wolf, Dragonslayer (in which the Disney Princess gets eaten by baby dragons), Tron,...

Dolphin Tale, release in UK cinemas on October 14th, is inspired by the amazing true story of a brave dolphin and the compassionate strangers who banded together to save her life and features a great cast including Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jnr, and Ashley Judd alongside many wonderful animals. But the real star is “Winter”, who plays herself in the film, and today serves as a symbol of courage, perseverance and hope to millions of people.

In advance of the release, we caught up with director Charles Martin Smith (pictured below with Ashley Judd) and asked about his experiences working on Dolphin Tale.

When you said, ‘I’ve got to have Kris Kristofferson in this. We worked in Pat Garrett and the Billy and the Kid,’ what did people say to you?

Charles Martin Smith: Well, it was one of those things that came up in meetings, like with Andrew Broderick,...

Chicago – Charles Martin Smith has had a varied career as an actor and a director. He was one of the famous ensemble cast members of “American Graffiti,” directed by George Lucas, and broke out himself as a director in the mid-1980s. His latest work as a filmmaker was one of last week’s big box office hits, “Dolphin Tale.”

“Dolphin Tale” is the based-on-truth story of Winter (who plays herself), a female dolphin who lost her tail as a result of a fisherman’s trap. In the film she is discovered by a young boy (Nathan Gamble), is nursed back to health by a marine institute headed by Dr. Clay (Harry Connick Jr.) and fitted for a prosthetic tale by Dr. Cameron McCarthy (Morgan Freeman). The ensemble cast also includes Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson and Frances Sternhagen.

Charles Martin Smith, Director of ‘Dolphin Tale’

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.

Nathan Gamble, Austin Stowell, Dolphin Tale Brad Pitt/Moneyball Tops Friday; The Lion King 3D Likely to Top Weekend: Box Office Dolphin Tale was the no. 3 movie at the North American box office on Friday, Sept. 23, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. The 3D drama based on real-life events collected $5.11 million at 3,507 locations, and — as a movie appealing to the weekend matinee crowd — it may possibly end up ahead of Brad Pitt's Moneyball when final weekend figures are tallied. Directed by Charles Martin Smith, the star of the 1983 nature drama Never Cry Wolf, Dolphin Tale has a solid 88% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes' top critics. The cast includes Harry Connick Jr, Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Austin Stowell, Frances Sternhagen, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Kris Kristofferson, and Morgan Freeman. Taylor Lautner's first solo starring vehicle, Abduction, grossed $3.8m at no. 4. Despite the horrible reviews — 0% approval rating among Rotten...

A Dolphin Tale is an exhilarating drama of a boy and nature that is highly enjoyable with enormous family appeal. It’s fluff, and predictable fluff at that, that unabashedly pulls at the heart strings but it basically works. Swimming free, a young dolphin is caught in a crab trap off the coast of Florida, severely damaging her tail. She is rescued and transported to the Clearwater Marine Hospital, where she is named Winter. Her tail is amputated and no one expects her to live much longer since she can’t swim properly without it. How will they save poor Winter?

Dolphin Tale is just the sort of heart-tugging, uplifting movie promised in the trailer. It’s not based on a true story, but inspired by one. Yes, there is a Dolphin named Winter that was rescued by the good folks at Clearwater Marine Hospital (you can go see Winter live right now at www.

Opening on September 23rd, is the new film from actor-turned-director Charles Martin Smith (Air Bud) called Dolphin Tale, which is based on a true story. The film tells the story of Winter, a dolphin who was rescued off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. A young boy named Sawyer befriends the animal after she is injured and looses her tail. The boy eventually meets a doctor and convinces him to create a prosthetic limb for the dolphin.

The film reunites Oscar winner Morgan Freeman, and actress Ashley Judd who first worked together on the 1997 action-thriller Kiss the Girls and then again in 2002 on the suspense-thriller High Crimes. Rounding out the cast are actors Nathan GambleThe Dark Knight, Harry Connick Jr. (New in Town}, and Kris Kristofferson (Blade).

Last fall we had a chance to travel to Tampa, Florida and visit the set of the movie,...

To celebrate the release of Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours on Blu-ray – an excellent film based on the true story of Aron Ralston and his struggle to escape entrapment in the American outback – Owf has been challenged to compile a list of the 10 best films that focus solely (or almost) on a single character. It’s not a common occurrence in cinema – I assume because a majority of viewers easily get bored with one character very quickly – but this technique has been attempted before, to varying degrees of success.

The benefits of having only one primary character is that the development of these protagonists can be much more in depth, ensuring that a stronger bond between audience and character can be forged. The downside though, is that you have to really like them and root for them wholeheartedly.

It’s an ambitious technique to attempt, but below are what we consider...

Sky Atlantic launches in the UK, bringing Boardwalk Empire with it. Plus, catch up on Mad Men season 4, and a whole host of movies...

In the preceding few weeks we've had the new series of shows start up with Being Human, Hustle, Not Going Out and Primeval returning to awaiting fans. And a few new shows have shoved their way onto the schedules with Episodes, 10 O'Clock Live and How TV Ruined Your Life settling snugly into their respective spots.

And after quite a feast of fresh programming, this week brings us leftovers (although they're imported leftovers of the highest quality), and a treat many of us won't be able to enjoy. I suppose we can't gorge every week, and they're both still well worth the couch commitment, provided you can tune in, of course...

Reheated and served up to everyone in equal portions comes the fourth season of the excellent,...

No movie springs from a vacuum. There are always influences from past examples of the genre, from the previous work of the filmmakers and stars, even from similar films that don’t quite work. If you want to understand where a movie is coming from, take a look at where it’s coming from. In Alpha and Omega, two animated wolves -- a lowly cur (the voice of Justin Long) and a pack leader (the voice of Hayden Panettiere) -- are relocated by humans to another park and fall in love on the road trip home. This flick sprang from (among other films): • The Lion King (1994), for a revisit of the triumphant film about honor and family that this new flick is clearly hoping to imitate (a task it fails hopelessly at). • Balto (1995), the animated family film about a heroic wolf-dog hybrid who leads a sled team transporting lifesaving drugs across dangerous Alaskan terrain.

book review: The Lion And The Giraffe by Jack Couffer (BearManor Media) The author of this colorful memoir may not be a household name, but he’s been involved in everything from Walt Disney’s The Living Desert to Out of Africa, from Disney animal movies like The Incredible Journey to Never Cry Wolf…and he has great stories to tell. Couffer was a naturalist and a seaman before he ever thought of looking through a viewfinder. It was only by chance, when he attended USC on the G.I. bill after World War Two, that he became friendly with a fellow student named…...

It got pretty hot in the Northeast this week. Actually, that's an understatement. I've never seen so many people covered in so much sweat. Everyone looked like Robert Hays in that scene from Airplane! where his face is pouring out water. And we weren't even trying to land an airliner. Fortunately, there are ways of tricking the brain into thinking it's cooler. Some people do it by watching dramas like Never Cry Wolf or Vertical Limit or The Day After Tomorrow. I'm a documentary kind of guy, so I've been revisiting some favorite non-fiction films set in frozen settings. The heat wave may be past its worst highs, but keep these five docs in mind for the next time there are such sweltering conditions as we experienced in the past couple days.

Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty, 1922)

Learn how to build an igloo and hunt seal in this...

Oscar-winning director, screenwriter and producer Joseph Strick has died from congestive heart failure at the age of 86.

Strick, who was born in Pennsylvania, died on 1 June in Paris, France, where he had lived for several years.

He won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1970 for Interviews With My Lai Veterans, which he wrote, produced and directed.

He also won the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTA) Flaherty Documentary Award for his 1959 film, The Savage Eye.

But Strick was perhaps best known for his screen adaptations of risque literary works including The Balcony, Ulysses and Tropic of Cancer, starring Rip Torn.

He hit headlines in 1970 after losing a court battle to overturn the X rating awarded to Tropic by the Motion Picture Association of America. The movie retained its adult rating until the early 1990s, when it was lowered to allow anyone 17 and over to view the film.

Other notable movie credits include Never Cry Wolf, Ring of Bright Water and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Strick is survived by his second wife, Martine Rossignol Strick, and their two children, as well as his three kids from his first marriage.

Forget vampires and zombies – they're just corpses. Werewolves are alive and howling

Vampires and zombies have been hogging our attention so much of late that we could be forgiven for having overlooked the other class-a monster lurking on the sidelines. But now it's getting ready to reclaim its rightful place in the horror pantheon, shoulder to shoulder with the walking undead. Werewolves are go!

Although they may not have taken top billing for a while, werewolves have never been entirely absent from our screens and pages. Who is Harry Potter's favourite professor of defence against the dark arts? The werewolf Remus Lupin! Who plugs that gap in Bella's heart when her beloved vampire Edward goes awol in the second episode of the Twilight saga? Step forward Jacob Black, who shapeshifts into a wolf! The Underworld films are nominally about vampires, but who are the vampires fighting? Lycans! Which is just a fancy name for werewolves,...

Four years ago off the coast of Florida and near Cape Canavaral, a three-month-old dolphin found herself bound by a crab trap line, unable to escape. Her attempts to free herself and her growing panic at being able to do so had cut deeply into her body. Before she could succumb to her injuries, the dolphin was discovered by humans, cut free and taken to the nearby Clearwater Marine Aquarium. There veternarians assessed the dolphin's condition. She wasn't expected to survive more than 24 hours.

Fighting to save the mammal's life, doctors had to amputate the dolphin's entire tail as well as two of her vertebrae. Even after surgery the vets didn't give much hope for the animal to live long. However, that is precisely what happened to Winter the dolphin. Today she lives in the Aquarium and has been restored with the ability to propel herself through the water with...

Like many youth of our generation, we have fond memories of Never Cry Wolf, the stirring adaptation of Farley Mowat’s book that put an untrained biologist into the snowy tundra of Alaska to study the effect of the state’s wolves on the caribou population. Unfortunately, the 2008 Sci Fi Channel original movie Never Cry Werewolf doesn’t have anything to do with that movie. Don’t go thinking that it’s an original piece of horror magic, though – instead, it’s an inexplicable remake of a different 80s movie, 1985’s Fright Night.

Like many youth of our generation, we have fond memories of Never Cry Wolf, the stirring adaptation of Farley Mowat’s book that put an untrained biologist into the snowy tundra of Alaska to study the effect of the state’s wolves on the caribou population. Unfortunately, the 2008 Sci Fi Channel original movie Never Cry Werewolf doesn’t have anything to do with that movie. Don’t go thinking that it’s an original piece of horror magic, though – instead, it’s an inexplicable remake of a different 80s movie, 1985’s Fright Night.