Nicolas Winding Refn is tired. He’s been up since 5 AM, working on a TV commercial via Skype from his Philadelphia hotel room. No rest for the weary, even if the weary is a serious multitasker. “I wish I could…
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Guest blogger Stephen Reginald writes: In 1943, Warner Brothers set out to film an account of the Bronte siblings, focusing mainly on the lives of authors Charlotte (Jane Eyre) and Emily (Wuthering Heights). In the 1930s and ’40s, the studio…
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Many people know about Serge Gainsbourg from his scandalous recording he did with girlfriend Jane Birkin in 1969 called “Je t’aime…moi non plus,” in which the then-couple sang and writhed on vinyl and got banned in many countries for their…
Read more →Here are 10 trivia facts about Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner from 1967, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to…
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Here’s a sample pulled from my collection of movie stills, a lovely picture of Marsha Hunt and Margaret O’Brien in Lost Angel (1943). Lost Angel was one of O’Brien’s earliest major roles, in which she plays a little girl who’s been raised…
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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! Yentl’s hosts insisted the dinnerware was Mottahedeh— so why was there a Dollar Store tag on the…
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“When an American cracks up, he opens a window and shoots up a bunch of strangers. When a Japanese cracks up, he closes the window and kills himself.” – Richard Jordan in The Yakuza The Yakuza (1974) has a pretty…
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Apocalypse…POW! You know that any movie that starts with a quote from Lord Humongous, the monstrous goalie mask-wearing bad guy from The Road Warrior, isn’t going to be a quaint rom-com. Bellflower isn’t. The film has been buzzed about in the…
Read more →September 14, 1919: Lon Chaney portrays the first of his memorable “grotesque roles,” twisting his body to play a fake cripple healed by The Miracle Man. September 14, 1936: Producer Irving G. Thalberg, the “boy wonder” behind many of MGM’s…
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