Kick off your week with today’s guest post from Jessica Pickens that looks back at the classic MGM musical Seven Sweethearts.
Read more →Musical Monday: Seven Sweethearts (1942)
Movie Reviews
Read our takes on films of all kinds, from silent pictures and classics from Hollywood’s Golden Age to modern favorites. Comedy, Drama, Action, Horror/Sci-Fi, Musical, Western movies and more are reviewed.
Scandal (One) Sheets: Exploitation Cinema Landmarks
Shocking scandal? Numbing tragedy? Odds are that the project’s already in development. We’re taking a look at some of the more famous–or infamous–exploitation flicks that have made their way to the marquee.
Read more →Still the Damndest Thing: Looking Back at Nashville
With the Criterion Collection putting their stamp on Robert Altman’s remarkable 1975 American mosaic, longtime Nashville celebrant Movie Irv considers the film’s impact and import, then and now.
Read more →Check Into This Hotel for a Good Time
A New Orleans luxury hotel was the setting for drama and romance in 1967’s aptly-titled Hotel, based on a novel by Arthur Hailey. Guest blogger John Greanias details what makes this hotel worth a visit.
Read more →An Angel Earns His Wings of Desire
Ask people what their favorite “angel” movie is, and I daresay a majority of movie fans might say “It’s a Wonderful Life,” especially during the holiday season. I go my own way, and pick “Wings of Desire”–at this time of year or any other.
Read more →Cagney Turns Yellow (Journalist) as the Picture Snatcher
Along with his iconic gangster roles, James Cagney’s early ’30s Warner Bros. tenure included turns as a cabbie, a race car driver, and–as Marsha Collock discusses here–a tabloid newspaper photographer, in 1933’s Picture Snatcher.
Read more →Coherence
Some (most?) movies you forget about the second they’re over. Some few others are skillfully made enough to linger in your mind, or even get you talking. Low of budget but high on smarts and expert in execution, “Coherence” is a brain-twister to savor.
Read more →Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
SEX! There, now we have your attention. COMIC BOOK! There, now some other folks are listening. ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR. That about covers it. “Blue Is the Warmest Color” is not a film you want to miss.
Read more →Harvey: Classic Movie Review
Everybody needs a best friend…even if that friend is a six-foot rabbit that one else can see! Melanie Simone looks at the 1950 Universal comedy Harvey, based on a hit Broadway play and starring James Stewart as good-hearted inebriate Elwood P. Dowd.
Read more →The Descendants: Movie Review
George Clooney stars as Matt King who struggles with unexpected occurrences in his monotonous life. Guest blogger Amanda Howard reviews this 2011 comedy-drama. Is this one of your favorite Clooney flicks? Let us know what you think.
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