December 7, 1919: Director/actor Erich von Stroheim, “The Man You Love to Hate,” makes his directorial debut with Blind Husbands. December 11, 1930: A protest of All Quiet on the Western Front by members of the Nazi Party in Berlin…
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DVD and Blu-ray Christmas Gift Ideas For the Classic Movie Lover
Join us at the Movie Buzz Christmas party, where Santa’s younger sibling Sammy Claus provides the “entertainment” and recommends the perfect home video gifts for family and friends! Christmas Gift Ideas on DVD and Blu-ray: Great Movie Christmas Gifts
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Movies are made for a variety of reasons. Usually, it’s to entertain and inform. However, in the process of accomplishing these goals it’s often necessary to commit scenes to film that depict pure evil, extreme awkwardness, or sometimes maybe even…
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Bad Girls Go To DVD & Other Movie Classics
Cary On Turner Classic Movies has pacted with Universal to issue several new-to-DVDs showcasing the great Cary Grant. This comes after TCM’s release of such Universal-licensed efforts as Remember the Night and the Universal Cult Horror Collection. These films, originally…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 11-29-09
December 1, 1903: Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery, the first motion picture to use intercutting scenes to form a unified narrative, is released. December 2, 1910: Hefty funnyman John Bunny, the cinema’s first comedy star, makes his debut…
Read more →The Road (2009) Post-Apocalyptic Drama With Viggo Mortensen Movie Review
Movie Irv takes a ride on The Road, the highly-anticipated adaptation of the grippingly apocalyptic Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men) novel. It’s been a few twists and turns getting this prestigious epic to the big screen, and Irv’s…
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“Film noir” is a term that movie marketers have pinned to practically every film involving crime or suspense that was shot in black-and-white during the 1950s. While some of the labeling has been downright silly, such as the case with…
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Boris Karloff Blog-A-Thon! Isle Of The Dead
This review is part of the Boris Karloff Blogathon; fans are invited to survey the entire series of contributions here! “Today, there is a crying need for a new…socially conscious novel to shake up the complacent public about the high…
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