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Between this blog and my previous one, Professor Damian’s Public Domain Treasure Chest, I’ve been writing about movies for quite a while now. Because of that, there are a lot of posts that have simply gotten lost to the mists of time. So, I figured I’d use the idea of “Throwb read more

Here are some facts and numbers are our final four finalists (Stanwyck, De Havilland, Monroe and Taylor) who are competing in the 2018 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney. BARBARA STANWYCK 30'S ERA CHAMPION Lifetime Tourney Record (23-7) Number of Final Four appearances: this is her 3rd read more

As the San Francisco Symphony prepares to screen the Oscar-winning film, I reminisce...    Amadeus first entered my consciousness back in the early ‘80s, when I worked in the promotion dept. of Fantasy Records (Dave Brubeck, Vince Guaraldi, Creedence Clearwater Revival), which wa read more

Daqui a Cem Anos / Things to Come (1936) ESTA CRÍTICA CONTÉM SPOILERS THIS REVIEW HAS SPOILERS Pergunte a todas as pessoas que você conhece sobre o quê elas se preocupam.  A maioria responderá “sobre o futuro”. Nós, como seres humanos, temos medo do que é incerto, read more

Just wanted to take a minute to remind everyone about the poll for April’s “theme month”. For full details, check out this post, but for a quick recap, your options are: 1) Tarzan movies, 2) Star Trek movies, 3) Blaxploitation, 4) movies of 1968, and 5) not-so-superheroes. You can read more

Say what?! A 1960s remake of the famous early silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari that I’ve never heard of? And it’s written by Robert Bloch? Okay, you know I’ve got to check this one out. Yeah, well, not so much. Not so much a remake, that is. I suppose you could say it’ read more

No major article today, but I thought I’d take just a moment for a quick poll. I’m considering making April a theme month. The idea is that along with the usual regular features, most of the posts during the month would focus on a specific topic. I’ve got five different ideas for t read more

Carole Lombard's celebrity resonates with millions more than three-quarters of a century after her premature death. She wasn't famous merely for being famous, but because of her skills at work (a talented actress and arguably the person most identified with the genre known as "screwball comedy") and read more

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story Interview with director Daniel Raim What comes to mind when you think of the word Hollywood? Glamour? Yup. Scandal? Sure. Stardom? Of course. But film maker Daniel Raim wants to show you a different side of Hollywood – a more human side. The side tha read more

There is a phrase the British like to use which is “taking the piss out of something (or someone). Basically it means pointing out the absurdity of something, especially a person who is taking themselves way to seriously. The Party is a film that absolutely delights in taking the piss out of e read more

For many years, Britain exercised an entertainment tax on its citizens which was charged when anyone indulged in sitting in the dark comfort of a motion picture theater. Proceeds from this tax ( known as the Eady Levy ) went towards British-based film producers for the production of.... more fi read more

Between this blog and my previous one, Professor Damian’s Public Domain Treasure Chest, I’ve been writing about movies for quite a while now. Because of that, there are a lot of posts that have simply gotten lost to the mists of time. So, I figured I’d use the idea of “Throwb read more

Um Golpe à Italiana (1969) / The Italian Job (1969) Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) acaba de sair da cadeia e já está envolvido em um novo plano de roubo. Cabe a Charlie encontrar um novo “patrocinador” para o golpe, e isto não é muito difícil: Mr. Bridger (Noel Coward), companh read more

In this 1966 follow-up to the previous year's Ipcress File, Michael Caine returns as Cockney thief-turned-spy Harry Palmer. The bespectacled Palmer still works for British intelligence and he's gotten a promotion. The bad news is that he remains on a suspended prison sentence and needs an interest-f read more

In this 1966 follow-up to the previous year's Ipcress File, Michael Caine returns as Cockney thief-turned-spy Harry Palmer. The bespectacled Palmer still works for British intelligence and he's gotten a promotion. The bad news is that he remains on a suspended prison sentence and needs an interest-f read more

What’s striking about Alfred Hitchcock is the sheer breadth of his work and how his career managed to take him in so many directions as he continued to evolve and experiment with his craft from silent pictures, to talkies, then Hollywood, and all the way into the modern blockbuster age. And ye read more

Since it’s feeling very Monday today, I think it’s time for a quick break. Fortunately, the good folks at PBS’s Crash Course have provided this little “recess” that just happens to be film related and spotlights an intriguing mystery from the early days of film history. read more

 Doctor Who (Peter Cushing) is menaced by a Dalek in this publicity still for Daleks -- Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1967). This article is part of the Time Travel Blogathon hosted by Wide Screen World and Silver Screenings. The BBC TV series Doctor Who has been going strong for more than 5 read more

Next week begins production on multi-Rondo Award nominated filmmaker Joshua Kennedy's (THE NIGHT OF THE MEDUSA, THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR) latest opus, HOUSE OF THE GORGON. The movie is obviously influenced by the classic English Gothic horrors of Hammer Films. Josh is a lifelong Hammer fan, and all read more

Opened in 1934, the Sebastiani Screens Current and Classic Films On a recent trek into the wine country, we took some time to cruise Sonoma Plaza in the town's center, an area now lined with restaurants, specialty shops and food and wine sellers. Amazingly, in the midst of all this modern-era com read more