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Sometimes things are so obvious you just can't help but wonder: Were Lina Lamont ("Singin' in the Rain") and Billie Dawn ("Born Yesterday") related?We don't know anything about the parentage of Miss Lamont and only know that Billie's dad worked for the gas company.  Let's take a look at a few u read more

Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid have a date with fate in “Casablanca” Casablanca, the 1942 classic directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid is the third film to be shown in this continuing monthly series. Winner of t read more

Final Resting Places, A Tribute to Western Filmmakers This month we’ll be again paying tribute to Western filmmakers as we visit their Southern California gravesites. We’ll begin by honoring several Western directors. The prolific George Sherman began his career in ’30s ̶ read more

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Oh! What a Lovely War (1969 read more

Vincent Leonard Price is known by many (including my own daughters, I learned today) for his horror movie roles and the “rap” naration he performed on Michael Jackson’s 1983 hit record, “Thriller.” For others – like me – he’s strictly a noir man, with standout appearances in read more

Charles Boyer and Ann Blyth discover “A Woman’s Vengeance” A Woman’s Vengeance (1948) is an American film noir mystery film directed by Zoltan Korda and starring Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, and Jessica Tandy. The supporting cast includes Cedric Hardwicke and Mildred Natwic read more

What is a femme fatale? She’s described in several ways on ye olde World Wide Web. The first definition I encountered stated that a femme fatale is an attractive and seductive woman, especially one who is likely to cause distress or disaster to a man who becomes involved with her. Another said that read more

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: A Wave, a WAC and a Marine read more

 The Cohen Media Group and Kino Lorber have released a magnificent silent movie double feature on Blu-ray, featuring the legendary Douglas Fairbanks. THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1921) and THE IRON MASK (1929) are on this Region A disc, and the sources for both films are from recent major restorations read more

One of my favorite things about Noirvember is shining the spotlight on those films noirs that are not necessarily well-known, but are certainly worthy of your time. Today’s post focuses on two Columbia Pictures features from the 1950s that will put you on the edge of your seat and keep you the read more

Classic film fans know what it’s like to sit through a movie that’s all scratched up or crackles and pops; that’s too hard to see and too difficult to hear. Yet we take it in stride because we know it’s the only way to see movies that have suffered from decades of deterioration. read more

Noirvember is just around the corner (buckle up, y’all!), but TCM is going pre-Code nutty on the first day of the noir season! That’s right – on November 1st, you can settle in front of your television (or tablet, phone, or whatever you watch moving pictures on) and catch a full day of eight back-to read more

Believe it or not, I received a notification yesterday morning informing me that I created this blog no less than nine years ago! And I thought it had “only” been eight years. Well, time flies. These have been nine prosperous years of blogging with now 492 followers (come on, can we reac read more

Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice is loosely based upon the Agatha Christie novel A Halloween Party. This story features Christie’s infamous detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) as he once again finds himself in the middle of a murder mystery. This time it is Halloween night in an old read more

Horror films can sometimes be too much even for the most fervent fan. Maybe it’s a scene so gross that you close your eyes. Or the minute you realize there’s a demon involved, and you change the channel (devil movies are a huge no for me). Perhaps there’s a scene so terrifying read more

 All those Godzilla films look alike to me so I would like some help to a puzzle that has been stumping me. A year or two ago, my dad and I caught the beginning of an episode of Svengoolie (the MeTV horror TV program) and there was a Godzilla film on. Or, at least I think it was a Godzilla film read more

 A few years ago I wrote a blog review on THE MAKING OF DUNE, a book written by Ed Naha and officially sanctioned by Universal Pictures, detailing the filming of the controversial 1984 science-fiction film directed by David Lynch. In that review I said that someone should write a book called TH read more

 This is the third book in a series that includes volumes pertaining to the 40th anniversary of STAR WARS in 2017 and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK in 2020. RETURN OF THE JEDI--FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW follows the same pattern as the earlier two books. It features 40 stories from 40 different aut read more

Silents are Golden: A Closer Look At – Orphans of the Storm (1921) Lillian and Dorothy Gish in Orphans of the Storm (1921) The early 1920s in the U.S.A. was a time of changing tastes and fashions, when society was trying to bounce back in the aftermath of World War I and focus on enjoying life read more

 Thanks to all who came to my third Film Noir Style event for the American Cinematheque - "The Year of Transition 1946"! Everyone said they had a wonderful time and it was such fun celebrating the peak year of film noir style. Gilda, The Killers, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and The Big Slee read more