July 14, 1908: Edison Company actor D.W. Griffith makes his directing debut with The Adventures of Dollie, the first of over 500 works to come. July 12, 1912: Adolph Zukor releases a French film, Queen Elizabeth, starring stage star Sarah…
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Out of the Past (1947): A Film Noir Masterpiece
Guest blogger Sarkoffagus writes: Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) is living a quiet life, running a gas station in a small town. But then a stranger drives his car into town, and everything changes. It seems that someone from Jeff’s past…
Read more →The Killer Inside Me & Vintage Noir
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And sometimes, desperate movies. You can’t get any more desperate than film noir, dark movies in which corruption, duplicity, violence and dames collide. There certainly is no absence of film noir on the big…
Read more →A Letter to Three Wives
One Saturday morning, Deborah Bishop (Jeanne Crain), Lora Mae Hollingsway (Linda Darnell), and Rita Phipps (Ann Sothern), get together to take a bunch of children on a boat trip and a picnic. Only problem is, there was supposed to be…
Read more →Nobody Does Bond Better, 002: George Lazenby, A Model Bond
It’s nothing all that spectacular to make a case that Sean Connery was “the best” James Bond. Anyone can do it. In fact, most everyone who is a die-hard Bond fan, at one time or another, has done it. Scan…
Read more →The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962): Movie Review
Alright, in the interest of full disclosure, yours truly has seen bits and pieces of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance before. It was a film that “we” often used to run on the overhead screens behind us at the…
Read more →Childlike Wonder Movies
Guest blogger Meaghan Couture writes: True to form, when offered the opportunity to go and see Mary Poppins: The Musical live at our performing arts center here in the city, I jumped at the chance! Not only do I love…
Read more →Sam Elliott’s Mustache!
Even more famous than his gruff drawl which is the voice-over to commercials such as Coors beer, the American Beef Council, and Dodge Ram trucks, is the mustache of Sam Elliott. Naturally everyone loves Burt Reynolds’ mustache, which we featured…
Read more →Movie Poll: What’s Your Favorite Film with Seven in the title
Tremors Equals Perfection
The town of Perfection, Nevada, is pretty much just that. Not a lot happens, only a dozen or so locals, the ideal life…as long as you don’t mind the graboids. Seems they like the ground under the town and the…
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