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It’s October and everyone wants to watch a horror film. Here at Monsters and Matinees – where we watch horror movies all year – we understand and are prepared to help out by offering suggestions of films that would be good introductions to classic horror. Nosferatu (1922) is an easy place read more

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 Considering the most popular cryptid of them all practically resides in my backyard, here in the Pacific Northwest, it didn’t take long to decide who deserved the spotlight this month. You don’t have to travel very far before you’re surrounded by miles and miles of dense fore read more

It’s movies like Adua and Her Friends from director Antonio Pietrangeli that remind me of the elemental joys of watching movies you’ve never heard of before. It’s a humbling experience to acknowledge how much of cinema there still is to explore and how names like his sometimes arb read more

Our First-Ever Watch Party and Chat!Celebrating Halloween with our Classic Movie Friends andHouse on Haunted Hill So happy to announce that we’ll be hosting our First-Ever Watch Party and Live Chat on YouTube tonight at 9pm ET with our very special Film Friends Aurora @CitizenScreen, Kelle read more

Earlier this month, we ran an entry about this beautiful yet mysterious Carole Lombard swimsuit picture (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/1021300.html). The mystery is its unreadable p1202 number (p1202 was Lombard's Paramount player ID for publicity stills independent of movies, which had thei read more

I’ll be visiting my bird watching friend to see the winter migrants in the Sacramento area.  Will return on December 21.  See you at the movies!   Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge read more

Recovering and Recapping the 2016 TCMFF… Well, another TCM Classic Film Festival has come and gone, and I’ve just about ‘recovered’ from my post-film-fest-blues (albeit not completely)… And, although I’m already counting the days until next year’s Festival ( read more

Not long ago I posted about Quentin Tarantino’s plans to mount a 70mm “roadshow version” of his upcoming film The Hateful Eight. Now he’s put together a video featurette with some of his stars and some of the people behind the movie showcasing and explaining the decisions and read more

The Passionate Friends (AKA “One Woman’s Story”) Directed by David Lean Written by Eric Ambler, David Lean, and Stanley Haynes from a novel by H.G. Wells 1949/UK Cineguild First viewing/Amazon Instant   Imagine Brief Encounter if the lovers had not made a clean break of it read more

Yep, it’s another line-up change here at DMM. I’ll admit, I’ve had a lot of fun doing the Saturday Double Feature, but much like OTR Thursday, it just seemed like it was time for a change. Back when I was growing up, Saturday mornings were a time when kids got to take over the hous read more

Yep, it’s another line-up change here at DMM. I’ll admit, I’ve had a lot of fun doing the Saturday Double Feature, but much like OTR Thursday, it just seemed like it was time for a change. Back when I was growing up, Saturday mornings were a time when kids got to take over the hous read more

 A Pictorial Tribute: Ginger and Friends… Anyone who reads this blog certainly knows these two: ….. Of course!  It’s Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers!  I’m a huge fan of them both and have a large collection of pics and knowledge about them that I’ll be sharing here.  read more

Earlier this year, we noted Carole Lombard's star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 6930 Hollywood Boulevard, in front of a Baja Fresh restaurant. But where are the stars for those who played key roles in her life as leading men, directors, supporting players, friends...even husbands?Fortunately, read more

US / 59 minutes / bw / Laxman, Screen Gems Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Pr: E.J. Rosenberg Scr: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts Story: characters created by Dashiell Hammett Cine: Fred Jackman Cast: Robert Middleton, Tony Travis, Frank Gerstle, Jan Arvan, Leslie Bradley, Argentina Brunetti, Herb Armstrong, John Brya read more

Here's a Carole Lombard-William Powell pic I've never seen before...and thanks to a snipe on the back, we know much more about it:It appears to be from September 1933, a month after their divorce, at tennis matches in Los Angeles...and as the caption notes, they had been seeing quite a bit of each o read more

Henry B. Walthall is a slick miner. Mary Pickford is the local lady of the evening. Lionel Barrymore is Henry’s rootin’-tootin’ pal. Both guys like Mary but who will win the day? This is a short subject from D.W. Griffith extolling the virtues of male friendship. Some very fine a read more

The other half of the 1% The Women (1939) The funny thing about this movie -- at least for me — is that I always look forward to seeing it (and I've seen it 65 million times) and always forget that there are a staggering number of cringe-worthy moments in it read more

The other half of the 1% The Women (1939) The funny thing about this movie -- at least for me — is that I always look forward to seeing it (and I've seen it 65 million times) and always forget that there are a staggering number of cringe-worthy moments in it read more

Conrad Veidt 1893-43 This is a re-style of an earlier post (hence the 45 already extant comments). It’s being re-issued and extended as the first of an occasional series I’ll be doing about the people in Basil’s life who weren’t family, lovers or wives. People he work read more