Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. These Six Pix are all Neo Noir posters—that is, film noirs…
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The Big Combo (1955): Movie Review Sexually and sadistically charged, The Big Combo is a paradigm for what can be accomplished with spare change filmmaking. This film, and the earlier work Gun Crazy (1950) are director Joseph H. Lewis’ masterpieces….
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My kids were in a production of Bye Bye Birdie over the last month. So, playing the part of the good father, I attended several shows. My kids had small parts in the chorus, so it wasn’t just their limited…
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It’s been too long since the last Movie Mash-Ups. As always, I’ve mashed up posters and their titles creating new movie one-sheets that definitely will not be coming soon to a theater near you. Let’s get right to it… American Splendor In The Grass ….
Read more →June 16, 1916: The merger of Famous Players and Jesse Lasky Feature Play Co. brings together Lasky, Adolph Zukor and Samuel Goldfish (Goldwyn). June 11, 1922: The “father of the documentary film,” Robert Flaherty, releases his greatest achievement, Nanook of…
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For today’s guest post, Rick 29 returns with his insights on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1966 thriller, Torn Curtain: Under the pretense of attending a conference in Copenhagen, Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), an American physicist, defects to East Germany. His fiancée and…
Read more →Sometimes it’s just fun to throw a curveball to Movie Irv and then roll the camera: The Movie Alphabet A to Z How well would you have done on the spur of the moment? I’m inclined to think Irv gave…
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In January 1953, President Truman announced that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. Later that same year, 20th Century Fox released its own double-barreled bombshell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe. Christmas had obviously come…
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Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. This go round finds Six Pix encountering Zombies!
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