April 20, 1965: Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker, starring Rod Steiger, takes its place in Hollywood history as the first mainstream film to include female frontal nudity. April 20, 1903: A judgment on appeal in Edison v. Lubin allows a film to be copyrighted…
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Toon TV Top 50, Part One: 1949-1985
It sure is heartening to know that I’m not the only Ruff and Reddy fan out there. That’s the lesson I learned from the responses to last month’s article on new DVD collections of 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoons, where I mentioned how my…
Read more →Goodbye, My Fancy (1951): Movie Review
Goodbye, My Fancy is an interesting, if not completely satisfactory, film about a woman with a successful professional life but a habit of running out on challenging relationships and personal situations. It’s the story of Congresswoman Agatha Reed (Joan Crawford),…
Read more →Collecting Movie Classics: Bombs Away!
Every movie collector wants to have the greatest movies produced in their library, right? But who can ever agree on that list? We’re tempted to say Movie Irv and his guest are about to share picks for their Top 10 “Guilty…
Read more →Sabotage (1936): A Forgotten Hitchcock Gem
Guest blogger Kim Wilson writes: I recently wrote a review of The 39 Steps, and based on the comments it elicited I came to the conclusion that Alfred Hitchcock’s pre-Hollywood films are often overlooked or even forgotten. I’m sure there…
Read more →James Gunn’s Super (Thanks For Asking)
It’s taken him close to ten years, but writer-director James Gunn finally has his superhero film under his belt with a big capital letter insignia. The movie is Super, a wild and wooly take on the comic book hero, starring…
Read more →Dirty Harry: Ten Things To Know About The Movie
Here are 10 trivia facts about Dirty Harry from 1971, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add…
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Hockey in Non-Hockey Films
With the road to the Stanley Cup commencing for the NHL it seems like as good a time as any to review how this sport has fared in Hollywood. But instead of travelling the well-worn path of such great hockey…
Read more →Your Movie Questions About Bunny O’Hare & More
Q: Are they ever going to release Bunny O’Hare with Bette Davis? It is such a good and funny movie. Please, please, please. A: The wacky comedy with Bette teaming up with Ernest Borgnine to portray bank robbers disguising themselves…
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