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Fans of classic horror films will love the next London Film Memorabilia Convention with its mix of dealers from all over the world specialising in vintage and modern film and television memorabilia – film stills, monster magazines, rare dvds, movie posters, autographs and more! There will also read more

  For the past 45 years, the Toronto Film Society has hosted a May film weekend in northern Ontario, and now for the first time ever, the May film weekend will play out right here in Toronto. The “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” Weekend will run from Friday, May 11 through Sunday May 13 at Toronto’ read more

Starring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird, Cregar and Alan Ladd. Directed by Frank Tuttle. Running time: 80 minutes. Release date: May 13, 1942 Excellent film noir classic about a hitman named Raven (Ladd's break-through film) who after taking out a blackmailer and his girlfriend in San read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. Someone on Twitter said that Classic Film Bloggers all write about the same things with different views and that we are pretty much beating a dead horse. I have to disagree with that state read more

After a Friday filled with rain, I awoke to mostly sunny skies Saturday morning for the TCM Classic Film Festival.  I was up early for perhaps the peak moment of the entire event--Kim Novak immortalizing her handprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater.  Unfortunately, the weather was still so read more

Ralph Phillips in Boyhood Daze (Warner Bros.) Continuing the theme of under-utilized characters I now turn my attention to the Looney Tunes. In the short film game the Looney Tunes are without question my favorite cadre of characters. I love some of the smaller personages especially, however, they a read more

LAX to the MAX Navigating the turgid throngs at LAX is like swimming upstream through a tidal wave of sludge. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure many of my fellow travelers were noble souls and fine people. However, they apparently all called each other that morning and decided to don they now their gray read more

  Well now, it’s been a busy week at PCF headquarters. We’re still trying to work out the kinks of the new site and the new email system and the new… well everything. And all the while, planning for an outrageous silent film weekend with two screenings on the same day! That&# read more

  Well now, it’s been a busy week at PCF headquarters. We’re still trying to work out the kinks of the new site and the new email system and the new… well everything. And all the while, planning for an outrageous silent film weekend with two screenings on the same day! That&# read more

Adrenaline continued to surge on the second day of the TCM Classic Film Festival, which just happened to be Friday the 13th.  As if on cue, down came a deluge of rain that hit Hollywood and Highland hard throughout the day.  But nothing could disappoint me...it was also my birthday an read more

So here’s another retroactive list from me. I think it’s safer to assume that this one is more tinged with nostalgia than the 1994 one. In this case, I believe a majority of the films included are ones I saw during or shortly after the year for the most part. Well, in terms of the Americ read more

The TCM Classic Film Festival officially kicked off last Thursday at the Roosevelt Hotel and what excitement.  The relative calm of the day before was gone and replaced with the feverish energy of 25,000 fans flooding Hollywood and Highland for four full days.  Being part of this fest read more

Winthrop University professor Haney Howell checks his e-mail every Sunday night around 12 a.m. to make sure students’ scripts for the student television show, Winthrop Close-Up, are submitted. He reads them over and sends the scripts back with corrections and feedbacks. “Don’t forget an Anchor read more

On August 14, 2011, on a now-defunct personal blog, I published this FR (S) review of Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday.  As today is Sunday, and I am still a sucker for actual ink-and-paper news, and given the film’s subject matter, I thought I’d repost it here.  Thanks for reading read more

By the time Samuel Langhorne Clemens died in 1910, the world was already witnessing the rise of film as a major medium. The first permanent movie theater in the United States had been built in Los Angeles in 1902; the French science-fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, had also debuted in 1902, and the read more

 By the time Samuel Langhorne Clemens died in 1910, the world was already witnessing the rise of film as a major medium. The first permanent movie theater in the United States had been built in Los Angeles in 1902; the French science-fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, had also debuted in 1902, a read more

In keeping with the concurrent themes of animation, the “amusement park studios” I also got around to thinking (based on last week’s post) about some lesser-known or under-utilized characters. I think that the animated short proceeding a feature is still a viable commodity and on o read more

By the time Samuel Langhorne Clemens died in 1910, the world was already witnessing the rise of film as a major medium. The first permanent movie theater in the United States had been built in Los Angeles in 1902; the French science-fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, had also debuted in 1902, and the read more

Though the TCM Classic Film Festival ended days ago at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, I am still feeling all the excitement of the experience. And I know I'm not the only one who is still buzzing.  Despite a rainstorm that rolled into Los Angeles early in the festival--including a torrential read more

  Well here we are, in my brand new home! Is that wine? You shouldn’t have, but thank you so much! I hope you’re digging the “new look” here at PCF. Stay tuned for more neat-o changes and special things as I work through my issues. In the meantime, I have some totally f read more