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Trog watches children at a playground. Joan Crawford probably didn't envision her film career ending with a notoriously bad, low-budget drive-in picture about the Missing Link. Yet, Trog (1970) was the cinematic swan song for the actress that graced the silver screen in classics like Mildred P read more

Trog watches children at a playground. Joan Crawford probably didn't envision her film career ending with a notoriously bad, low-budget drive-in picture about the Missing Link. Yet, Trog (1970) was the cinematic swan song for the actress that graced the silver screen in classics like Mildred P read more

TCM is airing a night of epic Westerns this week that includes How the West Was Won (1962). This movie features several big-name stars, including Debbie Reynolds and Gregory Peck. Every Monday in June, TCM is airing the films of actress and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn. This week features two of h read more

Are you a mod or a rocker? ~ reporter Um, no, I’m a mocker ~ Ringo As a 4 or 5-year-old I didn’t know who the Marx Brothers were and no one had told me yet about Cinema Verite and what that meant. But I loved the Beatles. Also, I didn’t find out until years later that Richard Leste read more

Are you a mod or a rocker? ~ reporter Um, no, I’m a mocker ~ Ringo As a 4 or 5-year-old, I didn’t know who the Marx Brothers were and no one had told me yet about Cinema Verite and what that meant. But I loved the Beatles. Also, I didn’t find out until years later that Richard Lest read more

The movies are filled with interesting and lovable characters, and quite a few of them happen to be dads. On this Father's Day here's a tribute to one of my all-time favourite movie dads. Betty Hutton, William Demarest, Diana Lynn Only a genius like Preston Sturges could spoof motherhood, a read more

TCM is airing five movies starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire this week. Every Monday in June, TCM is airing the films of actress and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn. This week features some of her best later roles, including  How to Steal a Million (1966) and Wait Until Dark (1967). There read more

The movies are filled with interesting and lovable characters, and quite a few of them happen to be dads. On this Father's Day here's a tribute to one of my all-time favourite movie dads. Betty Hutton, William Demarest, Diana Lynn Only a genius like Preston Sturges could spoof motherhood, a read more

What a milestone.A decade ago today, I decided to convert my affection for Carole Lombard, my favorite classic-era actress, into a blog saluting both her and the golden age of Hollywood. Look where it's taken me -- both figuratively and literally.At the start, I envisioned this site as a nice way to read more

What a milestone.A decade ago today, I decided to convert my affection for Carole Lombard, my favorite classic-era actress, into a blog saluting both her and the golden age of Hollywood. Look where it's taken me -- both figuratively and literally.At the start, I envisioned this site as a nice way to read more

Oh that it seems far away, that time when Judy Garland was gambolling on the yellow bricks road and singing “We’re Off to See the Wizard” when you look at her years later in John Cassavetes’s A Child Is Waiting (1963)! If this film was among her lasts before her premature de read more

TCM is airing a night of movies from British directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger this week. They include the haunting drama Black Narcissus (1947) about a group of nuns (Deborah Kerr is pictured above) who live in a remote Himalayan outpost. Every Monday in June, TCM is airing the fil read more

This just in from Hollywood Heaven, as we break in on a conversation between Carole Lombard and Ginger Rogers:Lombard: Hey, Ginger, did you just get the news? We're super at the box office! Well, not us specifically, but--Rogers: Just what are you talking about? I mean, I'm glad UCLA restored your " read more

TCM is kicking off its month-long celebration of Audrey Hepburn with Roman Holiday (1953). This romantic comedy about a princess on the run co-stars Gregory Peck. Every Monday in June, TCM is airing the films of actress and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn. This week features some of her best roles of read more

This just in from Hollywood Heaven, as we break in on a conversation between Carole Lombard and Ginger Rogers:Lombard: Hey, Ginger, did you just get the news? We're super at the box office! Well, not us specifically, but--Rogers: Just what are you talking about? I mean, I'm glad UCLA restored your " read more

Tim Considine was one of Disney’s most popular television actors and was in fact one of the very first of TV’s teen idols in 1955. Born Dec. 31, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, Tim grew up not very much unlike his first screen roles – the restless son from a wealthy family. His read more

Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s Charles Taylor Bloomsbury, 2017 From the moment I heard of it, I looked forward to reading Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s. I both love and abhor read more

The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer (Ningen no jôken) Directed by Masaki Kobayashi Written by Zenzu Matsuyama, Koichi Inagaki, and Masaki Kobayashi from a novel by Junpei Gomikawa 1961/Japan Ningin Club/Shochiku Eiga First viewing/Netflix rental A reluctant soldier’s war gets read more

TCM is airing a day of movies from director Howard Hawks, including the noir The Big Sleep (1945), starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Every Tuesday and Wednesday in May, TCM is airing films from iconic leading man Clark Gable. This week features some of his best later roles, including Mo read more

Carole Lombard's final film, the Ernst Lubitsch dark comedy "To Be or Not To Be," long has been a subject for serious criticism -- even soon after its initial release in the spring of 1942, when New York Times critic Bosley Crowther wrote some less-than-complimentary comments about it (http://www.ny read more