Guest blogger Jason Taylor writes: As I write this article, I’ve just popped in a DVD of Uncle Buck, the 1989 comedy from John Hughes starring John Candy as a hapless but loveable man tasked with watching his nieces and…
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14 Hours is a great, suspenseful, noir type film. The film is based on the story “Man on a Ledge” and according to the folks at Fox, the film is actually based on an incident in 1938 in which a…
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Guest blogger Anna Työrinoja writes: As some of you might now, I often hail the praises to the ’90s as the best time period of film (or at least its kicking of the ’70s, ’80s and ’00s’ behinds). But then…
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Guest blogger John McElwee writes: It’s 1941. You’re Paramount, newly in receipt of a white-hot fad off comic pages and radio — only this one flies and lifts up passenger trains. How in deuce will you translate that to a…
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Guest blogger Laurence Lerman of Disc Dish writes: If the story behind the genesis of the 2010 Oscar-nominated animated film The Illusionist isn’t as touching as the film itself, it’s at least as engaging. The original script for the film—which…
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Last week, guest blogger Richard Finch presented his choices for The Greatest (Classic) Performances By an Actor. Here’s his follow-up piece examining his picks for the greatest leading ladies ever to hit the silver screen. This week I’m posting the…
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Guest blogger Andrea Tuccillo writes: So I think maybe I’m a little psychic. Or maybe just super intuitive. Way back in February of last year, I wrote a post about franchises, focusing specifically on The Thin Man series and also referencing…
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Guest blogger Dave writes: If you watch only one film from the noir genre in your lifetime, make sure that one film is Out of the Past (1947). Every fundamental element used in the making of a great noir film…
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Guest blogger Dave writes: This film is not what I expected… at all. From the title I expected Angels Over Broadway (1940) to be a light, fun, maybe even a heartwarming type of film (why did I have visions of a…
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Guest blogger Marsha Collock writes: There are some stars that earn the adjective “beloved.” Either for their professional or personal contributions, or both, they are adopted by the audience and become a part of the “family.” Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, separately,…
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