How well do you know your scary clown horror movie trivia? Hopefully better than “Grouchy” Irv’s contestants, because they have bet his life on answering correctly…and they’re not doing so well! Grouchy tests their knowledge (and his patience) as he…
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Irene Dunne Overload
Guest blogger Rory B. writes: I shouldn’t have done it but I watched thee Irene Dunne films in three days. I like them in the order I watched. First there was The Awful Truth (1937), a film I’ve already seen five times. The Awful Truth…
Read more →My Favorite Martian…Movies
Quick, now: What planet in our solar system has had the most movies made about it? Okay, obviously the answer is Earth. Coming in a distant second–but still considerably ahead of the other six (sorry, Pluto, you don’t count anymore)–is our…
Read more →Addams vs. Munsters: Where Do You Stand?
An ooky childhood story: One day while hanging out with my best friend looking for something interesting to film with my Super-8 camera, I’d decided it would be fun to take my Evel Knievel doll (excuse me, action figure) and record…
Read more →The Lady from Shanghai (1947): A Guest Movie Review
Guest blogger Richard Finch writes: What a dilemma The Lady from Shanghai provokes. Orson Welles is in my directors’ pantheon, so I want to like the movie more than I do. Individual parts of it contain moments of great brilliance,…
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Natalie Wood: Let Me Entertain You
This doe-eyed brunette beauty followed up a successful stint as a child star with a run as one of Hollywood’s most popular female leads of the ’60s, rendering a series of noteworthy performances as emotionally fragile young women. Born in San…
Read more →Westbound (1959): Classic Movie Review
I enjoy college football — specifically, USC Trojan football — but I never watch pro football. Instead, I spent my Super Bowl Sunday enjoying another great American pastime, the Randolph Scott Western. Westbound is one of the seven late ’50s…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 03.06.11
March 10, 1910: D.W. Griffith launches the Hollywood film industry with In Old California, the first film to be made in the new municipality. March 10, 1922: Hollywood hires former postmaster general Will H. Hays to oversee “moral and artistic…
Read more →Anthony Quinn: Hollywood’s Man of the World
The versatility and sheer verve that marked the man informed his craftwork as well, and allowed this Irish-Mexican performer to forge a remarkable 60-plus-year run onscreen as lead and character player. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1915, Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca…
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