The Best Picture award is always given to the best film of the year, right? Not necessarily. Arguments have been made for how better movies were passed over for the one that actually won. I always thought Goodfellas should…
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Lady and the Tramp is the charming animated classic about a posh cocker spaniel and her would-be love, a streetwise mutt. Despite their differences, this lovable canines capture each other’s hearts…and yours as well. This week’s Create-A-Caption asks you to…
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So where did disaster movies get their start? If you are thinking Irwin Allen, I suggest you are off by a few years. The High and the Mighty predates any of his films by two decades. In fact the classic Airport (which…
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In this latest Create-A-Caption, we are featuring the 1952 classic The Quiet Man. Director John Ford‘s Oscar-winning rouser stars John Wayne as Irish-born, American-raised ex-boxer Sean Thornton. Returning to Ireland to claim his family’s estate, Sean falls for and weds…
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Hooray for Hollywood! It’s an adage that is as true today as it was all those years ago. Can you even imagine what life would be like without the magic of movies? We don’t want to either, and fortunately we…
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Originally released by MGM on October 1, 1954, Beau Brummell is a lavish adaptation of Clyde Finch‘s play about the life of the titular English dandy. Stewart Granger stars as Brummell, a style-setting and sardonic soldier of Regency England, whose…
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This latest Create-A-Caption focuses on the 1953 favorite From Here to Eternity. Director Fred Zinnemann‘s classic drama of the lives, loves, and conflicts of the men and women at a Pearl Harbor Army base shortly before the 1941 Japanese attack…
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In this guest post, Constance Metzinger remembers the 1956 British film Now and Forever. “You can’t separate us! We love each other!” Lonely upper-class English schoolgirl Janette Grant (Janette Scott) falls in love with handsome Mike Pritchard (Vernon Gray), a…
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Silvana Mangano was a beautiful and talented actress who was popular in Italian films of the 1950s, when Italy was going through its post-war film renaissance. This sensuous bombshell ascended to stardom after a sizzling performance in the drama Bitter…
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Welcome to 2020! For this first week of the new year there’s some great classics hitting DVD and Blu-ray for the first time. Check out these films that you’ll want to spend the frigid winter days with! I Love Trouble…
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