Guest blogger Katie from The Scarlet Olive writes: When it comes to hair colour, blondes and brunettes have been best “frenemies” for a very long time. Even film titles contribute to this battle between the two different hair colours: My…
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The Tarzan movies that I watched as a kid on Saturday morning TV have all blurred into my head as one vine-swinging meta-narrative of a cartoonish jungle hero battling cartoonish villains. But of all those films, one stood out from…
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Guest blogger Richard Finch presents this review of the classic thriller The Red House: *** Country: US Director: Delmer Daves A strange family living in self-imposed isolation, carefully guarded family secrets, an eerie forest rumored to be inhabited by spirits,…
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Guest blogger Angela Petteys writes: In the 100-plus-year history of film, a lot of actors have wound up with tough guy images. Mention tough guys to classic film fans, you’re probably going to hear a lot of James Cagney, Humphrey…
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Last year, MovieFanFare writer Brian Sieck gave his views on Christmas in Connecticut in a First Time Watch post, here with another take on the beloved holiday classic (just in time for Christmas in July!) is guest blogger Gary Sweeney: It’s getting…
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Guest blogger Andrea Tuccillo writes: Recently I was flipping through the channels and – surprise, surprise – I landed on TCM. All About Eve was on, right at the part where Margo Channing (Bette Davis) is furiously ranting in the…
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Guest blogger Kitty Johnson writes: A double brandy for me, please, bartender! Now this is classic. A prime Frank Sinatra serenading the luminous Rita Hayworth in George Stevens’ 1957 melo-musical Pal Joey. The film itself is light on plot, and even…
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It (1927) Movie Review It is a true silent film classic, and in this article guest blogger Venus presents an overview of some of the reviews that the picture received during its original theatrical exhibition : As everyone who reads my blog…
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Guest blogger Sophie Stephenson writes: Released in 1990, Goodfellas stars Ray Liotta as Henry, a half-Irish, half-Italian American, who as a boy became involved with a group of mobsters, and as he got older began more and more to embrace the life…
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Guest blogger The Lady Eve writes: During World War II Hollywood churned out popular pictures both entertaining and patriotic, bolstering home front morale and earning enormous box office receipts. Between 1942 and 1945, Americans were spending 23% of their recreation dollars…
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