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TCM's New Friday Night Spotlight Hosted Movies, with a different theme and host each Month. TCM starts off with, A Woman's World: The Defining Era of Women in Film, Hosted by Cher with Robert Osborne. A collection of 17 films handpicked by Cher to showcase the evolving roles of women from the l read more

Murder, My Sweet: 3rd Film in “High Heels and Fedoras” series at Daystar Center April 9, 2013 Tuesday, April 9, 2013 6:30 p.m. The Venue 1550 at the Daystar Center 1550 S. State Street Murder, My Sweet, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, was released in 1944, a few months aft read more

Classic film fans are quick to use the term “essential” when recommending to the uninitiated what classic films to watch.  Even cable network Turner Classic Movies airs films they call The Essentials every Saturday night.  But for me, calling something “essential” is no different than calling read more

I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part in the Fashion in Film Blogathon!  Over two days, nineteen bloggers contributed some excellent and very insightful posts.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading every single one of your posts and I’ve learned a lot from you all this weeken read more

I did better this month than I did last, possibly due to Spring Break and an overall lack of pressing school work.  I didn’t watch a movie a day, but got several movies reviewed at various sites, and even made it to the movies more than once!  Let’s look at what the month in movies has read more

Rudolf (Lewis Stone) is an Englishman on holiday in the unstable European kingdom of Ruritania. It turns out that he is a dead ringer for the soon-to-be-crowned king (also Lewis Stone). This comes in handy when the king is kidnapped by his evil brother and Rudolf must take his place to save the ki read more

This Goofy short is notable for a few reasons. The least of which is that this was another chapter in the series of shorts that saw Goofy take up recreational activities or sports with predictably disastrous and hilarious consequences. More interestingly than that is that later in Goofy’s film read more

Kellee from Outspoken and Freckled takes a look at the costumes of two of her favorite 1950s movies, Rear Window and Pillow Talk. Marlene Dietrich’s costumes never failed to make a splash on screen, but her wardrobe in Shanghai Express is truly unforgettable.  Head on over to The Lady EveR read more

Clive Brook and Marlene Dietrich Between 1930 and 1935, Josef von Sternberg filmed six wondrous and surreal flights of imagination for Paramount starring Marlene Dietrich with costumes by Travis Banton. The director and Dietrich had already made their first film together, The Blue Angel (1930), fo read more

Welcome to Neglected Post Theatre, where we re-post posts with negligible views post-posting, aka not many people saw them. Were they neglected due to weird timing, bad karma, or were they just stinkerooos? YOU be the judge! "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful." Today's entry is a little someth read more

Robert Wise's 1947 crime picture Born to Kill is noir right down to its very soul.  Based on James Gunn's novel Deadlier Than the Male, photographed in unflinching starkness by Robert De Grasse with gowns by Edward Stevenson.  Wait.  "Gowns by Edward Stevenson", the guy that made Luci read more

Clive Brook and Marlene Dietrich Between 1930 and 1935, Josef von Sternberg filmed six wondrous and surreal flights of imagination for Paramount starring Marlene Dietrich with costumes by Travis Banton. The director and Dietrich had already made their first film together, The Blue Angel (1930), fo read more

A great hat can really make a statement and nobody understood that more than Lilly Daché. Lily’s hats graced the heads of everyone from Marion Davies to Carmen Miranda.  Kay from Movie Star Makeover is here to kick off the blogathon  by telling us a bit about the legendary hat designer to read more

Welcome to Neglected Post Theatre, where we re-post posts with negligible views post-posting, aka not many people saw them. Were they neglected due to weird timing, bad karma, or were they just stinkerooos? YOU be the judge! "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful." Today's entry is a little someth read more

Clive Brook and Marlene Dietrich Between 1930 and 1935, Josef von Sternberg filmed six wondrous and surreal flights of imagination for Paramount starring Marlene Dietrich with costumes by Travis Banton. The director and Dietrich had already made their first film together, The Blue Angel (1930), fo read more

Admit it, the poster makes you want to see it too… Men of Steel (1926) Status: Unknown Sorry, this is not a Superman movie. However, it just may be even better. Milton Sills’s character study is set in a steel mill, an angle that is heavily exploited by the First National marketing depa read more

Puppets (1926) Status: Unknown The plot concerns Nicki (Milton Sills), an violently temperamental Italian puppet master living in New York. He serves in World War One and loses his hearing due to shell-shock but it too proud to admit it. His wife (Gertrude Olmsted), believing him dead, has begun an read more

We’re just a couple of days away from the big Fashion in Film Blogathon!  Are you ready? If you’re participating, here’s how it’s going to work:  On Friday and Saturday, a post will go live at about 9:00 AM Eastern for that day’s contributions.  Just leave a comment read more

A lot of news in this installment of News From the Lake.  We’ll discuss an upcoming Hollywood biopic, some TCM news, a few Universal films to be on the watch for, and FOX revealing some more manufactured on demand DVDs. Rock Hudson is set to receive the red carpet treatment with a Hollywood read more

I have just received confirmation that Backlots will be attending the TCM Classic Film Festival as an official member of the press. Headquartered at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, this is a huge and important festival, and I wanted to make a post telling readers what they may expect of me and Back read more