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The Wild Geese: Action in Africa

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Feb 28, 2022

Richard Burton as Faulkner.When an African dictator's actions threaten to lower British copper prices, influential banker Sir Miles Matheson seeks to discredit the man. Matheson (Stewart Granger) knows that the dictator kidnapped the country's popular president and then spread rumors of his death. S read more

On Blu-ray: Action and Suspense in Operation Crossbow (1965) and The World, The Flesh and the Devil (1959)

Classic Movies Posted by KC on Feb 5, 2020

Operation Crossbow (1965) This fast-paced, intense action thriller makes better use of its big cast than your typical all-star production. It plugs its characters into the story with smooth logic and always with an eye on moving the narrative forward with satisfying efficiency. The film is loosely read more

The 'Made In 1938' blogathon: For Carole, more action off-screen than on

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 18, 2019

For Carole Lombard, 1937 arguably marked her artistic apex, at least on screen. She began the year still enveloped in critical hosannas from "My Man Godfrey," and ended '37 with not one but two hit comedies: The Technicolor "Nothing Sacred" from Selznick International and "True Confession" from Para read more

First round action in the 2017 Classic Movie Actress Tourney is now underway

All Good Things Posted by monty on Mar 4, 2017

March Madness, Classic Movie Actress style for 2017 is now underway. I'll be handling the 40's and 60's era brackets here while John of Mythical Monkey handles the 30's and 50's era brackets. Here's the link to his blog:  mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com These first round matches will run through M read more

Taras Bulba (2009)  Hardcore Cossack action

Phantom Empires Posted by Clayton on Jan 20, 2016

Taras Bulba (2009)  Hardcore Cossack action 1/20/2016 0 Comments   Having loved the fantastic 1962 version of the Nikolai Gogol novel TARAS BULBA,  I thought it would be fun to present the more recent version read more

Taras Bulba (2009)  Hardcore Cossack action

Phantom Empires Posted by Clayton on Jan 20, 2016

Taras Bulba (2009)  Hardcore Cossack action 1/20/2016 0 Comments   Having loved the fantastic 1962 version of the Nikolai Gogol novel TARAS BULBA,  I thought it would be fun to present the more recent version read more

First round action in the 40's era brackets is now complete

All Good Things Posted by monty on Mar 7, 2015

Here are the final numbers for the eight matches that just concluded in the 40's era portion of the 2015 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney. First off, top seed in the 40's era and last year's final four finalist Olivia de Havilland got off to a great start in ripping Hedy Lamarr by the coun read more

Short Film Saturday- Action Movie Kid: Going to School

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Jul 12, 2014

Quite often you find a lot of shorts if you merely follow the right people on Twitter. Here’s the story behind this short, and the series it’s a part of, per Charles Webb: Some days, you just want to see a toddler skydiving. Or, at least, fake-skydiving in a video created by his animatio read more

This Early Stop Motion/Live Action Short Really Lays An Egg – It’s A Bird (1930)

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Apr 8, 2014

This intriguing short film from 1930 is entitled It’s a Bird and features comedian Charley Bowers interacting with some very interesting stop-motion animated creatures. For those who have never head of Bowers (as I hadn’t until I ran across this) here’s a bit of biography on him, t read more

This Early Stop Motion/Live Action Short Really Lays An Egg – It’s A Bird (1930)

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Apr 8, 2014

This intriguing short film from 1930 is entitled It’s a Bird and features comedian Charley Bowers interacting with some very interesting stop-motion animated creatures. For those who have never heard of Bowers (as I hadn’t until I ran across this) here’s a bit of biography on him, read more

60's era top seed Diana Rigg avoids an upset and holds on for a win over the spunky Hayley Mills in first round action...

All Good Things Posted by monty on Mar 5, 2014

Sometimes the 60's may get overlooked when speaking in terms of classic movies and stars, since it comes at the tail end of the classic movie age. But I have to admit that the 8 matches that just wrapped up part one of the first round arc produced some great excitement.Take for example top seed Dia read more

Oscar winning Best Live Action Short Film Color 1937

Pop Culture ImagineMDD Posted by ImagineMDD on Feb 23, 2014

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film: Best Short Subject, Color In 1936 and 1937 there were three separate awards in this category Meatless Meals 1936 Jean Prescott Adams Best Short Subject, One-reel 1936 - 1956 Best Short Subject, Two-reel 1936 - 1956 Best Short Subject, Color was u read more

The Oscar-Nominated Short Films (Live Action)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Robert Liwanag on Feb 7, 2014

The “Short Film” categories may be one of the most overlooked at the Oscars. In fact, short films in general are overlooked, which is a shame, because year after year, filmmakers from around the globe release works that could stand comfortably alongside more widely seen and well-known f read more

First round action in The Favorite Silent Actress Tourney comes to a close...

All Good Things Posted by monty on Jan 23, 2014

The first round of the The Favorite Silent Actress Tourney comes to a close today and for the most part it was business as usual but top seeded Mary Pickford received quite a scare from 17th seeded Brigitte Helm, and held on to win by two votes. Here are the complete scores from all the matche read more

Action Like This Doesn’t Need Much Translation, But Here It Is Anyway – The New US Trailer For The Raid 2

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 22, 2014

Like the characters in this film, I really don’t have much to say here. Mostly because if The Raid 2 is anything like its predecessor, very few words are needed because it’s all about the action, which certainly seems to be the case here. Yeah, this one is definitely gonna be a knock-ou read more

Action Like This Doesn’t Need Much Translation, But Here It Is Anyway – The New US Trailer For The Raid 2

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 22, 2014

Like the characters in this film, I really don’t have much to say here. Mostly because if The Raid 2 is anything like its predecessor, very few words are needed because it’s all about the action, which certainly seems to be the case here. Yeah, this one is definitely gonna be a knock-ou read more

No Redemption, Just Action – Here’s The New Trailer For The Raid 2: Berendal

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Dec 31, 2013

One of the biggest surprises of the past couple of years was The Raid: Redemption, a Taiwanese film that quickly took it’s place as one of my favorite straight-up all-out non-stop here’s-how-you-do-it action flicks of all time. This year, we’re going to get the sequel, The Raid 2: read more

No Redemption, Just Action – Here’s The New Trailer For The Raid 2: Berendal

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Dec 31, 2013

One of the biggest surprises of the past couple of years was The Raid: Redemption, a Taiwanese film that quickly took it’s place as one of my favorite straight-up all-out non-stop here’s-how-you-do-it action flicks of all time. This year, we’re going to get the sequel, The Raid 2: read more

Carole Lombard returns to action

All Good Things Posted by monty on Sep 5, 2013

The news is out as the 2013 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Champion, Carole Lombard returns to compete in The Lombard Cup, leading a team of 20 other classic movie actresses against Team Veronica (as in Veronica Lake) of Journeys In Classic Film. Carole will face off against Veronica in the very fi read more

New Wolverine Trailer Brings On The Hack-and-Slash Action

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on May 21, 2013

Yep, it’s another new trailer for The Wolverine (or just Wolverine, or however they’re titling it now), and it certaimly brings the goods. Of course there’s footage here that you will have already seen, but there’s lots of new stuff here, too. Jean Grey,a real shot of the Sil read more
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