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Jeanette MacDonald: The Girl of the Golden Voice
Between her successful tenures as a Broadway showstopper and a favorite on the concert stage, this vibrant bronze-tressed soprano delighted film audiences of the ’30s and ’40s in a string of memorable light musical fare. The youngest of three daughters,…
Read more →Nobody Does Bond Better, 006: A Craig-Like Face
For a moment Bond looked up into two glittering eyes behind a narrow black mask. There was the impression of a crag-like face under a hat-brim, the collar of a fawn mackintosh. He could take in nothing more before his…
Read more →Battleship Potemkin (1925): Guest Review
Guest writer Chris Edwards presents a look at a groundbreaking film classic, Battleship Potemkin: “Part One: The Men and the Maggots.” The words are rendered in tall, heavy text. White against black. Spartan, unflinching. Unluxurious, unadorned. Simple, functional. Communist. Scene…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 04.17.11
April 20, 1965: Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker, starring Rod Steiger, takes its place in Hollywood history as the first mainstream film to include female frontal nudity. April 20, 1903: A judgment on appeal in Edison v. Lubin allows a film to be copyrighted…
Read more →Toon TV Top 50, Part One: 1949-1985
It sure is heartening to know that I’m not the only Ruff and Reddy fan out there. That’s the lesson I learned from the responses to last month’s article on new DVD collections of 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoons, where I mentioned how my…
Read more →Goodbye, My Fancy (1951): Movie Review
Goodbye, My Fancy is an interesting, if not completely satisfactory, film about a woman with a successful professional life but a habit of running out on challenging relationships and personal situations. It’s the story of Congresswoman Agatha Reed (Joan Crawford),…
Read more →Collecting Movie Classics: Bombs Away!
Every movie collector wants to have the greatest movies produced in their library, right? But who can ever agree on that list? We’re tempted to say Movie Irv and his guest are about to share picks for their Top 10 “Guilty…
Read more →Sabotage (1936): A Forgotten Hitchcock Gem
Guest blogger Kim Wilson writes: I recently wrote a review of The 39 Steps, and based on the comments it elicited I came to the conclusion that Alfred Hitchcock’s pre-Hollywood films are often overlooked or even forgotten. I’m sure there…
Read more →James Gunn’s Super (Thanks For Asking)
It’s taken him close to ten years, but writer-director James Gunn finally has his superhero film under his belt with a big capital letter insignia. The movie is Super, a wild and wooly take on the comic book hero, starring…
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