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Movie Mash-Ups, Part V
It has been a while, so here’s another installment in the Movie Mash-Ups series. I’ve combined posters & titles to create new movie one-sheets that will not be coming soon to a theater near you. Enjoy! About A Boy Named…
Read more →Marlene Dietrich: Another Facet of Her Legend
Guest blogger The Lady Eve writes: Marlene Dietrich is one of the very few film stars whose career not only spanned 60+ years but who also enjoyed icon status for most of those years. Her life in film began in…
Read more →A Drug Called Charlie Sheen: Can We Handle It?
OK, so Charlie Sheen is supposedly a warlock with tiger blood and Adonis DNA… and a huge problem. Various media outlets have scandalously bombarded audiences with the popular actor’s recent travails over the past few weeks so much so that,…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 03.27.11
March 31, 1915: The nascent serial genre has its first true star when Pearl White plays the hazard-plagued heroine of The Perils of Pauline. March 28, 1920: Broadway legend John Barrymore moves to center stage of the film world with…
Read more →Made in Dagenham and Sally Hawkins: Disc Dish Interview
Guest blogger Laurence Lerman of Disc Dish writes: Disc Dish recently had a sit-down with actress Sally Hawkins to talk about her latest film, the lively, up-lifting Made In Dagenham, which opened theatrically last fall and will be released on…
Read more →The Rise of the Hollywood Star
Guest blogger Sophie Stephenson writes: These days it comes as no surprise to associate a film’s merit to its leading actor or actress rather than the director or writer, but a century ago, as the medium of film began its ascent…
Read more →Kidnapping, Prostitution, Racism, Satanism: Those Wonderful Old Movie Musicals
“They just don’t make movies like they used to.” That’s the sort of line you’ll likely hear from older filmgoers who yearn for the days of Saturday matinee twin bills at the local picture house and wouldn’t be caught dead at a…
Read more →Elizabeth Taylor: Reflections in a Violet Eye
A violet-eyed beauty who matured from child stardom into one of cinema’s most glamorous screen presences, the caliber of Elizabeth Taylor‘s body of work has tended to be obscured by the tumult from what has to be the most public private life ever….
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