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Sometimes you can get so wrapped up in the excitement of spending time with fellow movie obsessives  and getting to see real life movie stars and cinema experts that the films at TCM Classic Film Festival could almost seem to take a backseat.  It isn't so though. Festivalgoers obsess over read more

The theme for this year's TCM Classic Film Festival (TCMFF) - Moving Pictures - was intended to apply to the films that were chosen for the event's four days of screenings. The programming team accomplished that mission and then some as you can see by some of the films I saw (above). That said, some read more

The following is my entry in The Disability in Film Blogathon, being hosted May 13-15, 2016 by Robin at the blog Pop Culture Reverie. Which is about movies depicting a wide variety of persons living with disabilities! so this review of patch of blue is done for The Disability in Film Blogathon. Be read more

As a teenager, I was an odd duck. In middle school at age 11, other girls put pictures of O-Town (a band you’ve long since forgotten) in their lockers, but I was gushing about Davy Jones in The Monkees. I wore thick, white headbands to look like a teen of the 1960s, decorated my room with vintage read more

While there are plenty of TCM Classic Film Festivalgoers who will camp out for three hours to ensure entry to a rare pre-code or film noir, there's no doubt that it's the special guests that really get our blood pumping. There's nothing like seeing a performer you have admired on the screen in the f read more

When I viewed this month’s TCM “Now Playing” Guide and saw that Double Harness was airing, I knew in a flash that it would be my Pre-Code Crazy pick for May. Not only is it a first-rate pre-Code that stars two of my favorite performers, but it was also screened at the 2016 Turner Classic Movies read more

On the second morning of the TCM Classic Film Festival, I had the pleasure of covering a hand and footprint ceremony honoring Francis Ford Coppola in the forecourt of the Chinese Theatre.  This is the third year that I've attended the ceremony and, as in previous years, it was a fascinating, read more

It's taken me a few days to unpack all the experiences of TCM Classic Film Festival 2016, not to mention catch up on sleep. This was my third year covering the festival. It gets better every year.  Friendships with fellow film fans deepen, it gets easier to navigate long lines and find places read more

It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than a week since I flew out to Los Angeles for my fifth Hollywood visit and fourth Turner Classic Movies Film Festival (TCMFF). Met an old friend in Hollywood Last year, my parents joined me for the TCMFF, but this year I traveled solo for the e read more

It was the best of times, it was the best of times. Again. The 2016 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in Hollywood, California, was the bomb dot com. The bomb diggity. It was off the chain. Off the hook. Off the heezy. For sheezy. If you know what I mean. This year marked my fourth time attending read more

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I've barely gotten caught up on sleep (or posts...) after attending the TCM Classic Film Festival this past week, but I am already so excited to cover the Seattle International Film Festival for the fourth year. This year's event will gobble up my calendar space from May 19 to June 12.  I've read more

The red carpet. (It’s under there somewhere!) The adventure continues . . . At the last two TCM Film Festivals, I had an “Essential” pass, which allowed me to walk the red carpet for the opening night film. For this event, you get all gussied up and kind of rub elbows with the star 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 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “When You’re read more

Many use their last day at the TCM Classic Film Festival to fill up on movies or take it easy. I tend to go with the latter approach and this time it was even more important considering what I’d be doing that day. The day started with an early morning screening of the Douglas Sirk feature All read more

The TCM Classic Film Festival came to a close last night, and I am currently fighting off a tremendous case of sleep deprivation following my flight home at 6:15 in the morning. Despite my lack of sleep, I still feel the elation of the festival in every fiber of my being. What a weekend it was. At read more

Donnie Dunagan and William Joyce It isn’t until Saturday that I watched my first pre-1960s movie. I’m a bad film festival attendee, I know. But it shows the power of the TCM Classic Film Festival that it can take a film you’ve watched several times before and helps you reevaluate i read more

Day Four: TCM Classic Film Festival GIFs Some more GIFs from the featured films on the last day of TCM’s Classic Film Festival, 2016! Enjoy! The Kid (1921) Horse Feathers (1932) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) The Band Wagon (1953)   Cinema Paradiso (1988) ….. Until N read more

Day Three, Part II: TCM Classic Film Festival GIFs Some more great GIFs from today’s Films Enjoy! Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943) The King and I (1956) Band of Outsiders (1964) ….. Others Include: Midnight (1939) The War of the Worlds (1953) Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968 read more

Day Three: TCM Classic Film Festival GIFs Some GIFs from the films being shown at the TCM Classic Film Festival today Enjoy! Intolerance (1916) Bambi (1942) > The Big Sleep (1946) ….. Others Include: The Big Sleep (1946) The Long Goodbye (1973) Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982) &# read more