I enjoy college football — specifically, USC Trojan football — but I never watch pro football. Instead, I spent my Super Bowl Sunday enjoying another great American pastime, the Randolph Scott Western. Westbound is one of the seven late ’50s…
Read more →March 10, 1910: D.W. Griffith launches the Hollywood film industry with In Old California, the first film to be made in the new municipality. March 10, 1922: Hollywood hires former postmaster general Will H. Hays to oversee “moral and artistic…
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The versatility and sheer verve that marked the man informed his craftwork as well, and allowed this Irish-Mexican performer to forge a remarkable 60-plus-year run onscreen as lead and character player. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1915, Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca…
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Guest blogger Anna Työrinoja writes: Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime. The Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese collaboration has brought us some of the best films in history. Someone might argue with me…
Read more →Did nobody learn from The Planet of the Apes? Psycho? Charade? Apparently not, because there’s a whole slew of classics remakes brewing in Hollywood. Movie Irv is not pleased…well, except maybe for one or two films that present some fresh…
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Not relying on just graphics to set their movies apart from all the others, poster artists know that type can also convey meaning or set a tone. Below are movies that are known for their distinctive type styles. But the…
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Guest blogger Ian Simmons writes: My depression over the sad state of romantic comedies worsened ten-fold this morning after I watched His Girl Friday (directed by Howard Hawks) for the first time. The 1940 film is an absolute joy from start…
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It’s tough to believe that the 83-year-old Gene Hackman hasn’t made a film for seven (!!) years. His last appearance was in the 2004 Ray Romano comedy Welcome to Mooseport. And, as it seems now, it may be the great…
Read more →March 2, 1906: Biograph Studios wins appeal of kinetoscope inventor Edison’s patent claims, preventing (temporarily) a potential monopoly on the making of movies. March 5, 1919: Pioneering black producer/director Oscar Micheaux releases his first film, The Homesteader. February 27, 1920:…
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