Guest blogger Kim Wilson writes: W.C. Fields isn’t as timeless as one would like. Overall, vaudeville humor hasn’t aged well, either. Still, Fields was a devilishly delicious deadpan comic who knew how to keep a gag running. He was greatly…
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This Week In Film History, 01.15.12
January 19, 1907: An Exciting Honeymoon and The Life of a Cowboy are the first films to be reviewed in the entertainment trade magazine Variety. January 18, 1923: Drug addiction claims leading man Wallace Reid, whose morphine dependency followed an…
Read more →It’s Friday the 13th: What Two Horror Movies Do You Watch?
It’s Friday the 13th and you can watch any two horror movies in a larger screen movie theater. One movie must be a classic horror film and the second a recent horror movie. What two Horror Movies do you pick?
Read more →A Hard Day’s Night: Ten Things To Know About The Movie
Here are 10 trivia facts about A Hard Day’s Night from 1964, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment…
Read more →Jane Russell: On the Dark Side
Guest blogger Karen Burroughs Hannsbery writes: When I think of film noir fatales, Jane Russell is not necessarily the first name that springs to mind. Known mainly for her singing and comedic talents, as well as her voluptuous figure and…
Read more →Movie Marathons
Rested up? Ready for some serious movie watching? Perhaps at the outset of this year, you’re feeling frosty enough to curl up and commit to a Movie Marathon. With the recent completion of the eight-part Harry Potter film franchise fresh…
Read more →In the Flesh: An Appreciation of David Cronenberg
It was in the old Cheltenham Theater in the mid-1970s, with the pungent smells of fried chicken and Lysol wafting through the aisles, that I first got acquainted with David Cronenberg. I was definitely in the “horror movie phase” of…
Read more →Remembering Irene Dunne in “I Remember Mama”
In 1948, Irene Dunne was a very youthful looking 50-year-old actress. When she made I Remember Mama, Dunne was fitted with padding to make her appear overweight and makeup was applied to make her look older. It’s hard to believe…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Submarine Related Movie?
Conquering Hoards: The Reality TV Auction Boom Hits DVD
Blame PBS. If it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t have the tsunami of auction shows populating the TV screen like we do now. It all started with Antiques Roadshow, originally a British show on the BBC that began in the…
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