Smokey and the Bandit made a star of the Pontiac Trans Am, but like almost everything else, it’s being rebooted for the modern era. However, we’re not talking about the film but rather a Smokey and ...

Forty-five years ago, Cora the elephant shared screen time with movie star Burt Reynolds in the popular film, "Smokey and the Bandit II." Fans of that movie — including Reynolds' niece, Nancy Lee Hess ...

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the “Best Picture” of 1977 is Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. That’s nuts. No one cares about that movie. Only two movies made in 1977 still ...

Sharing the platform with the iconic Chevy Camaro, Pontiac’s Firebird was envisioned as the other half of the recipe to fight Blue Oval’s Mercury Cougar/Ford Mustang duo. Little did they know their ...

The late 70s and early 80s saw a wave of car chasing, barroom brawling, crowd-pleasers that ruled the box office, and Smokey and the Bandit (the second-highest grossing movie of 1977, after Star Wars) ...

Watching Smokey and the Bandit all these years after its release is an exercise in cultural anthropology. Even more so than other films of its time, this 1977 car-chase comedy drops markers about its ...

With the death of actor Burt Reynolds on Sept. 6, another small piece of my teenage years disappeared. Oh, not really, since memories never die. It’s just different knowing that yet another person who ...