The 1960s, ’70s and ’80s spawned some of the greatest and most entertaining movies in history. It’s little wonder than that this time period is often referred to as the “Silver Age of Cinema.” We wanted to honor this era…
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Create-A-Caption: The Graduate
You know how this works. Below is a picture from a classic film — in this case, The Graduate — with a funny caption below it. We encourage you to add your own caption in the comments below. Also, a…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: The Apartment
Billy Wilder‘s acerbic look at corporate life, The Apartment, stars Jack Lemmon as an ambitious insurance clerk desperate to get ahead at work. While trying to romance beautiful elevator operator Shirley MacLaine, he starts letting his married managers use his…
Read more →Ring In the New Year With the First DVD & Blu-ray Releases of 2020!
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…
Read more →Movie Trailer of the Day: Carnival of Souls
Herk Harvey‘s 1962 chiller Carnival of Souls is the most influential film you’ve never seen. Filmed on a budget of a mere $33,000 in Kansas and Utah, the deeply unsettling (in the best possible way) focuses on a young woman…
Read more →Joan Fontaine Meets “The Witches” In a Hammer Horror Favorite
Does witchcraft exist today? That question was posed to audiences in 1966 on the movie poster for the Hammer Horror release The Witches.(Released in the United States as The Devil’s Own). Not to be confused with the Roald Dahl-inspired movie…
Read more →Bob Hope and Lucille Ball: A “Critic’s Choice” for Laughter!
Coming to DVD via the Warner Archive Collection on August 20th, Critic’s Choice marked the fourth and final silver screen teaming of Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. Based on the 1960 Broadway play of the same name by Ira Levin…
Read more →Guest Review: The Reluctant Astronaut
“Boldly going where no coward has gone before!” Buck Fleming’s boy is an astronaut. He’s the pride of his father, mother, sweetheart, and the entire town of Sweetwater, Missouri. “A credit to his town, to the nation, and now the…
Read more →Guest Review: The High Commissioner
Espionage films were all the rage in the mid-1960s, a fever that had been ignited by Ian Fleming‘s James Bond spy series. George Segal investigated neo-Nazis in The Quiller Memorandum (1966), Michael Caine had starred in the Harry Carter films…
Read more →Guest Review: The Gnome-Mobile
“Hunting for gnomes in the Gnome-Mobile….” Jaspar (Tom Lowell) and his grandfather Knobby (Walter Brennan) fear that they may be the last of the gnomes residing in the giant redwoods of California. As many of us know, gnomes live forever,…
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