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It's the end of the year, and it's time once again for my top five DVD/Blu-rays list. As usual, I spent way too much money on home video--especially movies that I had already owned on other formats. (Three of the films on this list I already had versions of.) If you are a hardcore movie buff you'll read more

There are two ways to answer this question: "Who is your favorite mad scientist character?" and "Who is your favorite mad scientist actor?" When it comes to favorite mad scientist character, there's so, so many to choose from....just off the top of my head, there's Boris Karloff's Dr. Gustav N read more

Noir Nook: Five Things You Need to Know About Christmas Holiday (1944) Christmas Holiday is a 1944 noir starring Deanna Durbin as a devoted young bride who slowly comes to realize that her husband, played by Gene Kelly, is a charming sociopath and killer. The cast includes Gale Sondergaard as Kelly’ read more

I know it's quazy, but what if you're in the mood to watch a movie with a title that starts with "Q"? We pondered this question and came up with five quick picks: Andrew Keir as Quatermass. 1. Quatermass and the Pit (aka Five Million Years to Earth) - Construction workers uncover the ancient sk read more

Having been a Philo Vance aficionado since my teenage years, I can attest that no actor has captured the uppity, intellectual sleuth. Willard Huntington Wright, writing under the pseudonym S.S. Van Dine, penned twelve Vance novels between 1926 and 1939. The first four are excellent mysteries that mi read more

FIVE FOR HELL (original Italian title 5 PER L'INFERNO) is a 1969 Italian WWII action adventure that tries to fit the mold of such films as THE DIRTY DOZEN and WHERE EAGLES DARE. This movie, however, is at a far lesser scale than those big-budget epics.  The story is set during the Italian Ca read more

Mmm, pie. Years ago, in an early edition of my film noir newsletter, The Dark Pages (shameless plug), one of our readers posed a question: “What five film noir characters would you like to have for dinner?” It turned out to be a fun exercise for several of our contributors and subscribers, but I read more

The members of Monty Python. Everyone has their favorite Monthy Python skits, so compiling a "five best" is an impossible task. That said, I think we've come up with five pretty funny, laugh-out-loud classics. Our only rule was that we limited our picks to skits that appeared on the TV series  read more

Now, there isn't really of lot of choices for this question. When it comes right down to it, for me anyway, there's only three: WHITE ZOMBIE, I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (the original version, of course).  I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE is an excellent film, but like most of read more

As if I needed something else to love about film noir, I recently realized that I just love noir’s creative and unique titles. So today’s Noirvember post serves up a list of my Top 20 film noir titles. What are some of your favorites? Kiss The Blood Off My Hands (1948) — Burt Lancaster, Joan read more

Everybody raves about all the great noirs that were released in 1947 – Out of the Past, Body and Soul, Nightmare Alley, T-Men, yada yada yada – it was a completely stupendous and totally awesome year for noir. But 1947 wasn’t the only year that gave us a slate of memorable noirs; every year during read more

My favorite mummy movie of all time is the 1959 THE MUMMY from Hammer Films. Yes, the 1932 THE MUMMY from Universal is a great classic horror film. It has a dreamlike, creepy atmosphere, moody expressionistic direction from Karl Freund, and it features one of the best overall performances from Bori read more

1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) - Walt Disney provided the giant squid with its best role when it attacked the submarine Nautilus during a ferocious storm at sea. As a huge tentacle grabs Captain Nemo (James Mason) and threatens to crush him to death, harpooner Ned Land (Kirk Douglas) ar read more

Now, here's a question that seems relatively simple, but is actually quite complicated. My immediate response would be, "I'd like to spend time with one of the Hammer heroines!" The thing is, I basically did that for real on the set of HOUSE OF THE GORGON earlier this year. But the question isn't ab read more

This card poses an intriguing question. What would you choose as your preference between the 1922 silent German classic NOSFERATU and Universal's 1931 version of DRACULA? In February of 2015 I wrote a blog post review of Gary Rhodes' book on the making of the '31 DRACULA, followed by a review of Un read more

Series star Frank Converse. A former Cafe contributor wrote about Larry Cohen's cult TV series Coronet Blue back in 2009. The show's premise is brilliantly simple: a young man awakens in New York Harbor with no memory--except for the two words "coronet blue." Taking the name Michael Alden, he read more

John Greco, the classic movie blogger behind the delightful Twenty Four Frames, recently listed his favorite comedies of the 1940s. Not surprisingly, two of Bob Hope's best efforts made the list. That got the Cafe staff thinking about our favorite movies starring Mr. Hope. So, here goes! Pau read more

One of the many major highlights of last weekend's Monster Bash Conference was meeting up again with Derek Koch, the man behind the famed Monster Kid Radio podcast (www.monsterkidradio.net). Derek was awarded a much deserved Monster Bash Lifetime Achievement Award, and I for one know how much person read more

If you collect vintage original Carole Lombard photos, have we got news for you. Seven stills, from five of her movies, have just been posted on eBay. As all of these date back more than 85 years, they won't come cheaply...but they're all gorgeous.Above is one of three images from her 1931 film "Lad read more

Gordon Liu in The 36th Chamber. Last year, Amazon Prime added a number of high-quality prints of Shaw Brothers films to its catalog. If you're unfamiliar with the Shaw Brothers Studio (and subscribe to Amazon Prime), this is a great opportunity to sample some of their best movies. Founded in read more