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Five Favorite Directors: Classic Horror
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 18, 2021
Even people who don't care for classic horror movies have probably heard of Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Vincent Price, but behind every horror classic there's also a director asking for heavier fog, more menacing closeups, and louder screams. Alfred Hitchcock, although not primarily a horror dir read more
Five Favorite Films: Halloween Treats
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 8, 2021
Halloween is my favorite holiday, even though I'm too old for trick-or-treating and don't have a little one now to take around the neighborhood. It's an especially good time of year to revisit the movie monsters and film phantoms of Golden Age Hollywood, but there's a lot more to enjoy than the obvi read more
Five Favorite Films: Bette Davis
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Sep 20, 2021
It's really difficult for me to pick only five films for Bette Davis. She's one of my favorite stars, and her career spanned decades, with juicy, memorable roles from her early years right up to her death in 1989 at the age of 81. She was nominated for 11 Best Actress Oscars and won twice, first for read more
Five Favorite Films: Val Lewton
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Sep 16, 2021
I wouldn't normally think about making a five favorite films list for a producer, but Val Lewton is special. Born Vladimir Leventon in what is now Ukraine, Lewton headed the horror unit for RKO in the 1940s and made brilliant, moody horror pictures on shoestring budgets. He eschewed gimmicks and gor read more
Five Favorite Films: Leslie Howard
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Sep 9, 2021
English actor Leslie Howard is best remembered today for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind (1939), but Howard himself was not a fan of the part or his own casting in it. He said of the role, "I hate the damn part. I'm not nearly beautiful or young enough for Ashley, and it makes me sic read more
The Five Best Inspirational Sports Movies
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jan 25, 2021
As you peruse our list, note that these are our picks for the five best inspirational sports movies. There are many other fine movies about sports (A League of Their Own), sports figures (Brian's Song, The Pride of the Yankees), and sports-related stories (Field of Dreams). The aim of the movie read more
The Five Best Episodes of "Banacek"
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jan 4, 2021
Banacek with his trademark cigar.George Peppard starred as free-lance, Boston-based insurance investigator Thomas Banacek in a pilot movie and 16 episodes of Banacek. The series aired as part of the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie in 1972-74. He was assisted in each episode by his friend, bookstore read more
My Top Five Blu-rays Of 2020
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 30, 2020
There's no need for me to tell you that this year sucked. But this was a great year for home video product (that is, if you still had enough money to buy any of this stuff). Thankfully, I'm still working regularly, so, as usual, I spent plenty of money on Blu-rays and DVDs. And I still do read more
Noir Nook: Five Things I Love About Martha Ivers
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry on Dec 10, 2020
Noir Nook: Five
Things I Love About Martha Ivers
When you think about femme fatales in film noir, who are the first dames to come to mind? Phyllis Dietrichson from Double Indemnity, certainly, and Kathie Moffat from Out of the Past? Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice? Kitty from The Kil read more
Five Unmissable Marlene Dietrich Films
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Pamela Hutchinson on Dec 2, 2020
Five Unmissable Marlene Dietrich Films The joy of programming a season of Marlene Dietrich films is that she’s wonderful in everything – she had such electric charisma. But I had to whittle my list of favorite Dietrich performances down to just a few key films for the season. Because while you’ll read more
Exclusive Interview with Claude Jarman Jr. Part Five: The Sun Comes Up – AND Special Autographed Book Offer
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on Nov 30, 2020
Claude Jarman Jr. Child Star of The YearlingTalks about his film The Sun Comes Up (1949)AND offers Autographed Copies of His Book“My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood” for Purchase
In our 5th interview with Charles Jarman Jr, he talks about starring in the family drama The Sun Come read more
Five Hommes Fatale in Film Noir
The Old Hollywood Garden Posted by Carol Martinheira on Nov 3, 2020
Five Hommes Fatale in Film Noir
On November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 By CarolIn Uncategorized
The Femme Fatale is one of the most iconic tropes in film noir, but what about their male counterparts? Granted, the very creation of the femme fatale is d read more
TCM Summer Under the Stars: Day Five — Ann Miller
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Aug 4, 2020
Every inch a star. Ann Miller was a dancer, a singer, and an actress, but to me, she was always more than that. She always seemed to be a little bit larger than life, an iconic product of the Golden Age of Hollywood. A star. In the Beginning: Miller was born Johnnie Lucille Ann Collier in Chireno, T read more
Upload (2020) s01e02 – Five Stars
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 30, 2020
The best part about “Upload” this episode is Cigarette Smoking Man William B. Davis as one of the “Choak” brothers, who has died and is now living his reward after ruining American society for decades. Because Davis is good. No qualifications, no asterisks, he’s just good. Everything else read more
The Five Best Greer Garson Performances
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick on Jun 25, 2020
As Paula in Random Harvest.
1. Random Harvest - At the end of World War I, an entertainer named Paula (Greer Gardson) falls in love with a amnesiac known only as Smithy (Ronald Colman). They marry, have a child, and live blissfully in the English countryside. Then one day, Smithy journeys read more
REMAKE AVENUE: Five Star Final, 1931 and Two Against the World, 1936
Caftan Woman Posted by on Jun 22, 2020
Mythologized, demonized, revered, and lampooned, the gentlemen of the press make for good copy. From real-life crusader Nellie Bly who became as famous as her exposes to the fictional Charles Foster Kane who thought it would be fun to run a newspaper, audiences are as fascinated with the purveyors o read more
Book Review: An Mexican Immigrant Becomes a Movie Star in The Five Acts of Diego León
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Jun 10, 2020
The Five Acts of Diego León Alex Espinoza LARB Libros, 2019 (originally published 2013) I’m a fan of fiction set in the classic age of Hollywood, and The Five Acts of Diego León, a 2013 novel which was recently re-released in paperback somewhat scratches that itch. This story of a Mexican imm read more
Classics for Comfort - Five Favorite Comfort Films
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 20, 2020
Comfort Films was the chosen theme for this year's Classic Movie Blog Association spring blogathon and what a perfect choice it is! With most people confined to their homes because of Covid-19, we are turning to our favorite old films for some comfort.
A whole bunch of titles popped into my m read more
The Five Best Walter Matthau Performances
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Apr 13, 2020
1. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - Four men hijack a New York subway and hold the passengers
for ransom, demanding that $1 million be delivered within an hour. One
passenger will be executed for every minute that the money is late. As the
unlikely hero of this tense suspense f read more
Legends of Tomorrow (2016) s06e01 – Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five
The Stop Button Posted by on Jan 17, 2020
Given how much work these Arrowverse crossover events make for the show’s creative teams—just imagine if they had to bother with good writing, better direction (though this episode isn’t too bad), and good guest stars—you’d think they wouldn’t have wasted twenty-percent of Crisis on Infinite read more