“Every second throbs with suspense and danger!” For once, those exclamatory theatrical heralds were right: Assignment in Brittany is packed to the brim with non-stop adventure. There is so much fast-paced excitement that if you do not have your ears…
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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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In today’s guest post, Jim Brymer discusses The Maltese Falcon: Humphrey Bogart was born into the camera (so to speak), if stories can be believed. He was the model for a drawing for an advertising campaign for a brand of…
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Joan Davis was a master of zany comedy. She was the feminine variant of Danny Kaye, Oscar Levant and Billy de Wolfe all rolled into one. But mostly she was uniquely Joan Davis: Rubber-faced, loose-limbed and shamelessly outrageous. A lost…
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In this guest review, Constance Metzinger takes a look at the 1962 chiller The Undying Monster: “When stars are bright on a frosty night, Beware thy bane on a rocky lane ” Coastal England at the turn of the century….
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“Moonlight and love songs, never out of date.” Add Casablanca to that list of eternal things featured in the lyrics of “As Time Goes By,” for this is the most beloved of all motion pictures. The star-crossed relationship between club…
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With songs like “The Day After Forever,” “Swinging on a Star,” and the title track, Going My Way quickly established itself as a musical masterpiece upon its release in May of 1944. (It went on to be the year’s most…
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It’s Create-A-Caption time again, and this week we’re taking you back to 1940 for the timeless charmer The Shop Around the Corner. Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan shine as tempestuous co-workers who are blissfully unaware that each is the other’s…
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It’s one of the most familiar tropes in storytelling — the tale of a boy and his dog. One of the first films to truly capture the magic of this special bond was 1943’s Lassie Come Home, and the world…
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As I have stated before I enjoy the concept of film noir. If you are unfamiliar with the term, it was created by French essayist Nino Frank to describe a specific sub-genre of mysteries that became popular post-World War II…
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