These days, far too often do audiences take for granted the skill and planning that goes into making a fight sequence in a film seem believable. When done right, movie fight choreography can redefine the way that viewers respond to…
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When it comes to legendary song-and-dance men, there was no one better than Gene Kelly. Even though its been more than 20 years since he passed, Kelly’s filmography continues to cast a long shadow in Hollywood. The reason for this…
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It’s the start of another week, but there’s no need to, as Office Space would have it, have a case of the Mondays, because we’ve got another Create-A-Caption for you! Today we’ve got an image from Singin’ in the Rain,…
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MGM took a song-filled, nostalgic look back at the birth of talking films with its 1952 musical Singin’ in the Rain. Guest blogger Marsha Collock talks about the timeless Gene Kelly/Debbie Reynolds/Jean Hagen classic, and “what a glorious feeling” watching it gives her.
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The 1944 classic Cover Girl is reviewed by Guest blogger Angela Petteys: While working as a dancer in a nightclub, Rusty Parker (Rita Hayworth) hears about a contest being run by Vanity magazine to find a new face for their big…
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“Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance!” And, in Gene Kelly’s case, gotta act, gotta produce, gotta choreograph and gotta direct as well. The uber-talented multi-hyphenate of so many classic films—musicals and otherwise—would have been celebrating his 100th birthday on August 23. But…
Read more →April 12, 1911: Cartoonist Winsor McCay brings his popular Little Nemo in Slumberland characters to animated life in Little Nemo and the Princess. April 10, 1915: The controversy over D.W. Griffith‘s portrayal of blacks in The Birth of a Nation…
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You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! The mop would have to suffice until his RealDoll arrived.
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It’s interesting how some of the best Hollywood movies of the early ’50s—thinking specifically of Singin’ in the Rain and 1950’s Sunset Blvd. but several others fit the bill as well—seized the moment to look back acidly on the transition of…
Read more →February 2, 1922: Hollywood has a real whodunit on its hands when Paramount Pictures director William Desmond Taylor is found slain. February 5, 1927: Buster Keaton‘s comedic masterwork The General, based on a true Civil War incident, is released. February…
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