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Win Tickets to see “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” on the Big Screen! In Select Cinemas Nationwide Sunday, July 30 & Wednesday, August 2! ‘”Aloha, Mr. Hand.” CMH is thrilled to announce the 9th of our 14 movie ticket giveaways this year, courtesy of Fathom Events! That said, read more

Blanche Fury (1948).  Poor Blanche. In a short span, she improves her social station by progressing from servant to governess to the wife of wealthy landowner Laurence Fury. Unfortunately, on her wedding night, she realizes that she's passionately in love with the estate's bitter steward, Phili read more

Blanche Fury (1948).  Poor Blanche. In a short span, she improves her social station by progressing from servant to governess to the wife of wealthy landowner Laurence Fury. Unfortunately, on her wedding night, she realizes that she's passionately in love with the estate's bitter steward, Phili read more

The first thing that comes to mind when you think of High Society is probably its predecessor, The Philadelphia Story. Every classic film fan has their own opinion about which is better, what works and doesn't work in the other, et cetera. I'm not really interested in that. Instead of comparing the read more

Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome Shawn Levy W.W. Norton & Company, 2016 When I learned of the publication of Shawn Levy's Dolce Vita Confidential, my first thought was, "Please let him write about the time Anita Ekberg threaten read more

High and Low (or Heaven and Hell in the original Japanese) is a yin and yang film about the polarity of man in many ways. Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) is an affluent executive in the National Shoe Company. He worked his way up the corporate ladder from the age 16, because of his determination and commitme read more

High and Low (or Heaven and Hell in the original Japanese) is a yin and yang film about the polarity of man in many ways. Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) is an affluent executive in the National Shoe Company. He worked his way up the corporate ladder from the age 16, because of his determination and commitme read more

I’m still on the blogathon trail! This is my contribution to the Animals in Film Blogathon, which is being hosted by Crystal of In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood. Please do go along and look at the other postings. Horse-racing tale Broadway Bill was clearly a story which meant a lot to read more

One of the most recognizable TV cowboys of the 1960s, Don Collier carved out a highly-successful career playing ranch foremen, lawmen, and bad guys. In addition to starring in his own TV series Outlaws (1960-62), he guest starred on Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Virginian, Branded, Wagon Train, Death Valle read more

Tudo Começou no Trópico / Swing High, Swing Low (1937) Você gosta de ver duas pessoas se apaixonando, e depois enfrentando os desafios do relacionamento? Eu não gosto, mas mesmo assim dei uma chance a “Tudo Começou no Trópico / Swing High, Swing Low”, de 1937. E sabe por quê? read more

High Society (1956) starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra is one of the 1001 classic movies you should see. The movies made in old Hollywood between 1930-1970 are an integral part of America's cultural heritage, so, with that in mind, each Monday I'm going to recommend a classic mo read more

Music Review : Royal Headache - High (2015, What’s Your Rupture?) Not being a fan of garage rock doesn’t make me repulsive about it at all. This is why I plugged into Royal Headache’s High with not much expectations. It was probably for the best. With the first song I got read more

Drums softly beating. A voice mournfully bellowing,”Do not forsake me, oh, my darlin‘.” It can only mean one thing, the beginning of High Noon, a western that has grown near and dear to my heart in the recent years. And yet how can a western of under 90 minutes mesmerize and cause read more

Drums softly beating. A voice mournfully bellowing,”Do not forsake me, oh, my darlin‘.” It can only mean one thing, the beginning of High Noon, a western that has grown near and dear to my heart in the recent years. And yet how can a western of under 90 minutes mesmerize and cause read more

***Spoiler Warning*** Yes, once again, I’m writing about a 50+ year old movie, but to me that doesn’t matter. As I’ve noted before, if you’ve never seen the film, it’s a new movie to you, and there are certain twists in the plot that I will be discussing that you might read more

Music Review : High On Fire – Luminiferous (2015, E1 Music) Produced by Kurt Ballou (Converge), the latest record from sludge masters High On Fire couldn’t be more on point than it is. A return to their pre-Snakes For the Divine and De Vermis Mysteriis detour. Their music is fast read more

Best remembered as the fun-loving Manolito on the classic Western TV series The High Chaparral, Henry Darrow has appeared in over 100 films and television series. He co-starred with David Janssen in the detective series Harry O, played Zorro's father in the 1990-93 Zorro TV series, and appeared as A read more

Gail Patrick Jackson, High Priestess June 20, 2015 / The Cinema Dilettante In honor of what would have been Gail Patrick’s 104th birthday, I want to talk a little bit about why she’s long been one of my personal heroes. When one mentions the heroes of read more

Twelve O’Clock High Directed by Henry King Written by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay Jr. from their novel 1949/USA Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation First viewing/Netflix rental   This is less a war story than a psychological study of one way to motivate men and its cost.  I thought read more

Riding the momentum of Carole Lombard's two earlier successes with Fred MacMurray, not to mention her huge Universal smash with "My Man Godfrey," Paramount pulled out all the stops in early 1937 to promote her upcoming film with Fred, "Swing High, Swing Low" -- so much so that it ran a four-page spo read more