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It is once again time for my monthly 'Nick’s Pix' screening at the beautiful Lake Theater in Oak Park, and this one…this one is a big one for me. It’s May, summer is right around the corner, and I wanted to kick things off early with something fun, something loud, something nostalgic, something that absolutely kills with an audience. So I went back 45 years (to the summer of 1981) and picked one of my all-time favorite comedies. We are celebrating the 45th anniversary of Stri

Now that so many people have cut the cable chord, are using streaming services and watch movies and shows any damn time they please, I'm not sure the term "remote dropper" will be understood in the near future. I'm not sure who invented the term (actually, it may have been me) but to explain: You know when you're flipping through channels on cable (I've already lost you, I'm sure) and you come across a movie that you love so much that you can recite the dialogue along with th

If you know me, then you know that I am a "Saturday Night Live" fanatic, and I have been since the very first episode aired on October 11th, 1975. John Belushi and Michael O'Donoghue in the very first Cold Open sketch in SNL history. Chevy Chase saying: "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" for the very first time. I was a 10-year-old weirdo obsessed with Mad Magazine , Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and other comedic ventures that were definitely inappropriate for a ch