July 22, 1934: After seeing MGM’s Manhattan Melodrama at Chicago’s Biograph Theater, gangster John Dillinger is gunned down outside by G-men. July 23, 1947: The subject of anti-Semitism is dramatized in RKO’s Crossfire and, in November, by 20th Century Fox’s…
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948): Classic Movie Review
Sorry, Wrong Number. USA 1948, 89 minutes, black & white, Paramount Pictures. Director: Anatole Litvak. Written by Lucille Fletcher. Based on the radio play “Sorry, Wrong Number” by Fletcher. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea, Ed…
Read more →Eating Raoul and More Cult Faves Coming to DVD and Blu-ray
Criterion Corner: Two long-in-the-works American cult faves hit the shelves from Criterion in both DVD and Blu-ray. Eating Raoul (1982) is the late Paul Bartel’s outrageous black comedy in which a married couple (Bartel and Mary Woronov) discover that killing…
Read more →Six Pix: The Crescent Moon
Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. The crescent moon is featured in this installment of Six Pix.
Read more →Pola Negri and Rudolph Valentino: Birds of Paradise in Love
Pola Negri and Rudolph Valentino, two of the most famous and glamorous movie stars of the silent era, had a secret romance…or did they? Guest writer Marsha Collock examines the details behind the duo’s clandestine relationship.
Read more →Tom Terrific: A Salute to Skerritt
Tom Skerritt is going to be 75 years old in late August. It’s hard to believe, but when you think about, not surprising. Myself, like the rest of the world, became familiar with Skerritt through Robert Altman’s 1970 anti-war classic…
Read more →Ordinary People with Extraordinary Issues
Guest blogger Kim Wilson writes: Ordinary People (1980) was nominated for six Academy Awards; it won four. To this day, some people are still upset over the fact that Ordinary People won the Best Picture Oscar over Raging Bull. These…
Read more →Republic Treasures, Classics Coming to Blu-ray
Olive Digs Republic: Well, we’re happy to report that it didn’t take long for Olive to get to their newly acquired library of titles from Republic Pictures. The new releases include Cyrano De Bergerac (1950) with Jose Ferrer in an…
Read more →Son Of Dueling Movies
If you enjoyed our last installment concerning similarly-themed movies that raced one another to the multiplexes, here’s some more box-office blow-by-blows for you to ponder: Real Genius (1985)/ Weird Science (1985) Premise: Teenage boys dabble with science leading to dangerous…
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