Classic movie reviews, movie articles, movie information from 1960 to 1969, the end of Golden Age of Hollywood.
In Splendor in the Grass (1961), young love is thwarted by societal standards and a meddling father, and the moral of the story might be that sexual repression is not good for the soul. Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty (in…
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A superhero film is only as good as its supervillain, and 1966’s Batman had four memorable foes. As part of the Great Villain Blogathon, we shine the Bat-Signal on the menace of the Penguin (Burgess Meredith), Riddler (Frank Gorshin), Catwoman (Lee Meriwether) and Joker (Cesar Romero).
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A song he wrote was performed live by a rock-and-roll idol on The Ed Sullivan Show. Along with his fellow chimney sweeps, he danced and cavorted on the rooftops of London. He even constructed a airborne automobile. And yet…
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Last week’s $64 million opening weekend for Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning showed that audiences will still turn out for spy movies. The genre probably hit its zenith back in the late 1960s and early ’70s. James Bond,…
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Now that Disney’s live-action Snow White is playing in theaters (It is still playing in theaters, isn’t it?), the publicity surrounding the film made me think back to the first time I saw the fairy tale princess on the movie…
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Currently playing in theaters is Mickey 17, a darkly funny sci-fi actioner from Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer, Parasite). Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey Barnes, an average guy on the run from a loan shark who takes a job helping…
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In today’s guest post, Jim Brymer shares his thoughts on the 1963 comedy classic It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Stanley Kramer was a well-known director in his day, one who specialized in “message” films — meaning that there…
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PUT THE MASK ON NOW!!! Not to be confused with the Jim Carrey film of the same name, The Mask is a mind-blowing 3-D horror flick from Canada that was originally released in 1961. The film concerns a psychiatrist who…
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Part live-action, part animation, all entertainment. That is a pretty accurate description of 1964’s The Incredible Mr. Limpet. The movie stars Don Knotts as Henry Limpet, a glasses-wearing Brooklyn bookkeeper/icthyophile who is stuck on land after being declared 4F by…
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All of us have favorite films that are a little extra special to us because we grew up with them. The Parent Trap, featuring Hayley Mills, is one of those films for my sister and I. It was a favorite to…
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