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Top 1970’s Movies (see all)

  1. Family Plot (1976)
  2. Night Moves (1975)
  3. The Godfather Part II (1974)
  4. A Little Romance (1979)


Fan Top Western Movies (see all)

  1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  3. Annie Oakley (1935)
  4. The Gold Rush (1925)
  5. The Harvey Girls (1946)
  6. The Searchers (1956)
  7. The Big Country (1958)
  8. Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
  9. Calamity Jane (1953)
  10. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Fan Top Post War Movies (see all)

  1. On the Beach (1959)
  2. Act of Violence (1948)
  3. The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
  4. A Foreign Affair (1948)
  5. Heroes for Sale (1933)
  6. The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
  7. The Men (1950)
  8. The Miniver Story (1950)
  9. Tunes of Glory (1960)
  10. Rogues' Regiment (1948)




Monsters and Matinees

In today?s on-demand world of streaming services, we feel like we can watch any movie with a click of a button. But that?s not true. There are always films that elude us despite our best efforts to find them. For me, that?s Beginning of the End (1957). I was a kid when I first saw the awesomely t......
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Noir Nook

Anthony Mann at the Helm Several years ago, when I was a guest on a podcast, the hostess asked me to name my favorite film noir directors. I don?t know why, but I felt like a deer caught in the headlights, and my mind went completely blank ? the only director I could even think of was Alfred Hitc......
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Silver Screen Standards

Angel Face (1953) Classic film has no shortage of mean girls, but Angel Face (1953) offers a particularly dangerous teenage femme fatale in its title character, played with unhinged intensity by English actress Jean Simmons. The plot of this riveting story of obsession and murder has a lot in com......
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Western RoundUp

Lone Pine Film Festival 2026 Preview It?s hard to believe it, but it?s time for a preview of the 36th Lone Pine Film Festival! This year?s festival takes place in Lone Pine, California, from October 8th through 11th, 2026. Countless movies were filmed in the Alabama Hills outside Lone ......
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Monsters and Matinees

The Long Hair of Death is a movie title that sparks the imagination. How will it fulfill the glorious promise of its title? Perhaps as a variation of Medusa with exceedingly long snakes for hair? Or a darker version of Rapunzel where lethal tresses wrap so tightly around a person, they squeeze th......
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Classic Movie Travels

Classic Movie Travels: Grace Kelly Grace Kelly Grace Patricia Kelly was born on November 12, 1929, to Margaret Majer Kelly and John Kelly Sr. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was the third of their four children. Her father owned a brickwork contracting company and won three Olympic gold med......
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Silents are Golden

Early Civil War Films Of The Silent Screen During the 1900s and 1910s there was one genre of American film that skyrocketed in popularity, becoming more prevalent than at any other time since. No, it wasn?t the western, or even the slapstick comedy?although those aren?t bad guesses?but the Civil ......
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Legend Tribute: Chuck Jones

Born September 21, 1912 Animator and Director Chuck Jones!? “Animation isn’t the illusion of life; it is life!”?-Chuck Jones I cannot really put into words how I feel about Chuck Jones and his artistry… ?All I know is that when I saw some of his sketches at the Smithsonian Museum...  Read more...

Mini Tribute Porter Hall

Born September 19, 1888 Character Actor Porter Hall! Character actor Porter Hall appeared in over 75 film and television episodes over the course of his 20+ year film career, playing his share of villains and pompous men…including the nervous, ill-tempered store psychologist who gave the psych...  Read more...


5 Fascinating Facts About Sophia Loren

5 Fascinating Facts About Sophia Loren From a childhood marked by poverty and war to becoming one of the world’s most glamorous and celebrated movie stars, Sophia Loren’s life has been quite a journey. Born in Rome on September 20, 1934, and raised in Pozzuoli near Naples, Loren we......Read more

3 Fun Facts about The Big Sleep (1946)

3 Fun Facts about The Big Sleep Released on August 31, 1946, The Big Sleep stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in one of classic Hollywood’s most famous film noirs. Murder, mystery ? and one famously complicated plot! Here are three fun facts about The Big Sleep… 1. Even......Read more

Boldly Going to Garland: It Came From Texas Film Festival Celebrates 60 Years of Star Trek

Calling all Star Trek fans! It?s hard to believe that it?s been 60 years since Star Trek first invited television audiences to boldly go where no one had gone before. Six decades, countless strange new worlds and one enormous pop-culture legacy later, the It Came From Texas Film Festival is celeb......Read more

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Did you know that there is a James Stewart Museum in Indiana, PA?

The Jimmy Stewart Museum is located in Jimmy's hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania. The Museum highlig... ..  read more

National Film Registry

In 1994, Invasion of the Body Snatchers starring the legendary Kevin McCarthy, was inducted into The National Film Registry, 38 years after its initial release (1956).
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Grauman's Chinese Theater

George Jessel's, Footprints & Handprints were "set in stone" in Grauman's famous forecourt in 1949. So were Richard Widmark, Jeanne Crain, Jean Hersholt, Anne Baxter...  see more