14 Hours is a great, suspenseful, noir type film. The film is based on the story “Man on a Ledge” and according to the folks at Fox, the film is actually based on an incident in 1938 in which a…
Read more →14 Hours (1951): Guest Review
Monthly Archives: May 2011
This Week In Film History 05.29.11
June 2, 1916: Victor Schertzinger composes the first original film score for an American feature, Thomas H. Ince‘s Civilization. May 31, 1938: NBC broadcasts the first feature film on television shown in a single installment, The Return of the Scarlet…
Read more →Craptastic Cinema: A Primer
Good day, I’m Julian André, and welcome to Craptastic Cinema. After my debut blog review of one of my all-time favorite craptacular movies Tuff Turf I received many comments from readers and colleagues alike. One in particular had me rankled….
Read more →Broadcast News: Ten Things To Know About The Movie
Here are 10 trivia facts about Broadcast News from 1987, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add…
Read more →On the MGM Recording Stage with Nelson and Jeanette
It took some doing to get Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald out of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer vaults and into viewers’ homes. At this point, it should be said that both Naughty Marietta (1935), their first movie together, and Sweethearts (1938), their first…
Read more →Hobo with a Shotgun (2010) Action Film Starring Rutger Hauer
Everybody out there loved Machete, right? Right??? (Sound of crickets) Well, I certainly loved it, and that makes me more than curious about Hobo with a Shotgun. Rutger Hauer stars as the trigger-happy vagrant in this feature-length expansion of the fake…
Read more →Cat People (1942): A Classic Movie Review
Cat People (1942): A Classic Movie Review Val Lewton‘s steamy thriller Cat People details the fast-moving romance between all-American ship builder Oliver (Kent Smith) and the sexy-but-shy Serbian fashion designer Irena (Simone Simon). They meet at a zoo, where Irena…
Read more →TV Poll: What’s the Best Classic TV Miniseries?
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
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! Jack could live with having ‘ol One Eye at the helm. But his parrot’s constant refrain of…
Read more →What Was Your Favorite Film As a Kid?
Guest blogger Anna Työrinoja writes: As some of you might now, I often hail the praises to the ’90s as the best time period of film (or at least its kicking of the ’70s, ’80s and ’00s’ behinds). But then…
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