You know the drill. Below is a classic photo from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below!
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True Heroes of Horror: Christopher Lee
Guest blogger The Mike writes: Who is Christopher Lee? Born on May 27, 1922, Christopher Lee has been acting ever since a young age when he played Rumpelstiltskin while attending school in Switzerland. The son of a soldier and a…
Read more →Where There’s Music, There Is Love
Guest blogger Hilary writes: Breathing happens naturally. That’s one bit of good news we have as humans; a solitary effort in life we don’t have to add to our endless list of things to remember. And until we reminded you…
Read more →#OccupyWallStreet Movies, Your Primer of Protest
Holy cow, look at all those people in the streets. You’d think it was the Great Depression! Or the 1960s. Maybe a mixture of both? Some time ago, I offered readers a primer of films designed to illuminate the Tea…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 11.06.11
November 7, 1902: French inventor/film executive Leon Gaumont demonstrates his Chronophone system of showing films with synchronized phonograph cylinders. November 6, 1958: Steve McQueen (article: Non-Expressionism The Gift of Steve McQueen) battles that man-eating goo from outer space, The Blob,…
Read more →Jean Harlow 100th Anniversary Collection: Warner DVD Set
Review of the Jean Harlow 100th Anniversary Collection featuring the movies Riffraff (1935), “Suzy” (1936), “Personal Property” (1937), and “Saratoga”
Read more →The Big Country: For People Who Don’t Like Cowboy Movies
Guest blogger Victoria Balloon writes: Some people refuse to watch Westerns on the grounds that the predictable parade of horses, gunfights and tumbleweeds makes them ultimately shallow and boring. They are missing out; there were Westerns made in the 1950s that…
Read more →Exploring Cinema’s Take on Our Favorite Composer Biopics
The new film Mozart’s Sister puts an unprecedented spin on the legend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, focusing on the life of his older sister Maria Anna, known familiarly as “Nannerl.” Herself a musical prodigy, Nannerl’s expertise at composition and violin…
Read more →Gregory Peck: Leading Man in a Gray Flannel Suit
Deserved of his iconic status as an American leading man, this handsome and imposing performer built an impressive screen resumé over nearly 50 years, primarily (but hardly exclusively) on winning characterizations of fundamentally decent men looked to as a moral…
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