Just what is a “comfort film”? Is it a film you turn to for merriment? Is it a film that allows you to cry freely, or is it a film that brings to mind old and cherished memories? For as…
Read more →Classics for Comfort: Five Favorite Comfort Films
Articles by: Constance Metzinger
6 From the ’60s: Favorite Films from the 1960s
My sister and I were first introduced to classic movies through the films of the 1960s since this was the decade that our father loved the most growing up in. He started us off on children’s classics from this time…
Read more →Guest Review: The Bat (1959)
“When it flies, someone dies!” Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead) has just rented a secluded country estate known as “the Oaks” and finds herself involved in a real-life mystery when she learns that one million dollars has been…
Read more →Victorian Thrillers of the 1930s and 1940s
Victorian London, steeped in a dark and romantic aura, has always been the ideal setting for murders and mysteries in films of the 1930s and 40s. Lurking beneath the white facade of stately manors inhabited by fashionable ladies and gentlemen…
Read more →Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Create Movie Magic in “Naughty Marietta”
Jeanette MacDonald knew how to flaunt spunk like no other woman in her time and, incredibly, she reigned during an era of ultra-spunky women. Jeanette knew how to be feisty and flirty without losing any of her natural refinement which…
Read more →Barbara Stanwyck Is Unforgettable In “Annie Oakley”
“Barbara Stanwyck is splendid in the role of Annie Oakley; this is indeed her most striking performance in a long time” Andre Sennwald, a New York Times reporter, stated the above shortly after seeing the premiere of Annie Oakley in…
Read more →Hayley Mills and the “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” Windmill
Every fan of the 1968 musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remembers inventor Caractacus Potts’ beautiful workshop, but what many do not know is that the windmill where it was filmed was once owned by Hayley Mills, the star of numerous…
Read more →Guest Review: James Cagney in “Tribute to a Bad Man”
“I was a boy when I entered Mr. Rodock’s valley but when I left I wasn’t a boy anymore. I had picked up a few pointers about how men died quickly and how they kept from dying quickly; how to…
Read more →Guest Review: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
In this guest post, Constance Metzinger reviews 1969’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: “I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders and all of my girls are the créme de la créme” Miss Jean Brodie…
Read more →Obscure Classics: Once to Every Woman
In today’s guest post, Constance Metzinger looks at a movie that is not on DVD or Blu-ray but should be: 1934’s Once to Every Woman. Grey’s Anatomy 1934. Well, not quite. But if you want to see what a 1930s…
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