January 19, 1907: An Exciting Honeymoon and The Life of a Cowboy are the first films to be reviewed in the entertainment trade magazine Variety. January 18, 1923: Drug addiction claims leading man Wallace Reid, whose morphine dependency followed an…
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All About Eve (1950): Classic Movie Review
All About Eve (1950) “My name is Addison DeWitt. My native habitat is the theater. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theatre.” Mr. DeWitt may be…
Read more →The Guys Who Built the Hornet’s Nest
Confession time; I was originally planning to write a review of the new Green Hornet movie, starring Seth Rogen as the verdant-masked crimefighter and Taiwanese actor/pop singer Jay Chou as his aide, martial arts expert Kato, here. And since I had…
Read more →Blue Valentine Movie Review By Movie Irv
Ryan Gosling has recently received critical praise for All Good Things (see Movie Irv’s review on our YouTube channel), while Michelle Williams enjoyed a stay on Shutter Island and recently wrapped work on a film in which she plays Marilyn Monroe. Now, the two indie-film darlings…
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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! The hibachi show was lackluster, but it seemed a tad extreme to kill the chef for not…
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Al Pacino as Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July? Meg Ryan in Pretty Woman? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest starring…Burt Reynolds? These were just a few of the real original movie pairings that I highlighted in…
Read more →Hedy Conversation: The Legend of Hedy Lamarr
There’s a new biography chronicling the life of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars: Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton. Holding the book in my hands, I stepped back a few years in time… Hedy Lamarr…
Read more →Movie Poll: Who’s Your Favorite “Baby Boomer” Leading Lady?
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Read more →The Mark of Zorro (1920): A Guest Movie Review
The Mark of Zorro (1920) Directed by Fred Niblo Starring Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Noah Beery Produced by Douglas Fairbanks Pictures California’s natives are being oppressed. The Spanish Governor and the armies are merciless with the poor and some…
Read more →This Week in Film History, 01-09-11
January 10, 1927: Set in the year 2000, Fritz Lang‘s sci-fi opus, Metropolis (Metropolis: Fritz Lang’s Timeless Vision), opens. It’s among the first to use miniatures in place of enormous sets. January 10, 1914: With Mack Sennett’s instruction to Charlie Chaplin to “get…
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