May 28, 1935: Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film Corporation unite to form 20th Century Fox, overseen by Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck. May 28, 1941: Animators and artists at the Walt Disney Studios launch an acrimonious two-month strike…
Read more →Monthly Archives: May 2011
Daredevils of the West: Return to the Saturday Matinee
Daredevils of the West was filmed at the height of Republic’s serial-making career, when their formula and technique were perfected and ensemble cast members at their most capable and appealing. As a work of film melodrama, the serial is astoundingly…
Read more →Movie Remakes Better Than the Original?
Hollywood’s never been known for leaving well enough alone, but every once in a while a film remake manages to surpass its predecessor. Brian Seick offers his picks for some cinematic second versions that are worth watching.
Read more →Wake Up! Here Are Some 2011 Summer Movie Sleepers
Fourteen-year-olds (of all ages) are juiced for the summer of 2011, because not only do we have the much-anticipated Marvel Comics blockbuster Captain America on tap, we’re also primed for some intergalactic action with DC Comics’ emerald avenger Green Lantern,…
Read more →Audrey Hepburn: The Sorority Girl’s Pin-Up
Guest blogger Jessica Pickens writes: On a college campus you can’t miss the familiar outline of Holly Golightly with her cigarette holder while wearing a long black gown on the back of a sorority T-shirt. And of course under that photo…
Read more →Remembering Ed Wood’s “Angora Girl”
“A story must be told!’ – Bela Lugosi as “The Scientist,” Glen or Glenda? (1953) Earlier this Spring, fans of Hollywood’s Golden Age mourned the death of two-time Best Actress Academy Award-winner and eight-time bride Elizabeth Taylor. Aficionados of cult movies and…
Read more →High on J.Lo
A great many actresses try their best to come across as “hot” in the movies. A staggering number of them, to put it charitably, often come up short in all but the most superficial of ways. Now, that’s not a problem…
Read more →Movie Poll: Who’s Your Favorite Film Score Composer?
Celluloid Superman: Paramount Cartoons from the Fleischer Studio
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…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 05.15.11
May 15, 1900: The Lumière brothers dazzle audiences at the Paris World’s Fair with films projected onto an enormous 82′ x 49′ wide screen. May 17, 1912: Carl Laemmle oversees the merger of a number of independent production companies to…
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