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TCM Launches Multi-Year Focus on Female Filmmakers
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jun 17, 2015
If you love old movies you love strong women. From the plucky heroines of silent film, to the dangerous dames of Pre-Code and Noir, to the liberated women of the late 1960s and early ’70s New Hollywood, classic film has no shortage of powerful female icons. But the same can’t be said for read more
For Classic Film Fans, Death is a Way of Life
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jun 14, 2015
“This is really the closest thing you get to news in your world,” my girlfriend’s brother said to me the day Christopher Lee’s death was announced. The passing of a 93-year-old is never a surprise; still, Thursday was a somber day for anyone who loves movies, particularly sca read more
Shining a Light on TCM’s Summer of Darkness
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jun 12, 2015
Summer is the time when Hollywood studios roll out bright and shiny CGI action flicks designed to appeal to every member of the family – here, and around the world. But for classic film fans, this summer is all about darkness. Each Friday in June and July, Turner Classic Movies is presenting some read more
TCM Makes Summer School Cool w/ Free Film Noir Course
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 18, 2015
For a generation of fans old and new, Turner Classic Movies has been like a film school without the student loans. Now, more than two decades after the channel’s launch, you can remove like from that sentence. On June 1, TCM will become an actual educational institution (of sorts) when it laun read more
CBS is Colorizing “I Love Lucy.” Here’s Why I’m Okay with That.
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 17, 2015
“The last time I checked, I owned the films that we’re in the process of colorizing,” a television executive said in 1986. “I can do whatever I want with them, and if they’re going to be shown on television, they’re going to be in color.” That TV executive read more
The Sexy GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 “Sequel” You Haven’t Seen
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 15, 2015
Even if you don’t like old movies you’ve probably heard of GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933. The Warner Bros. musical about sassy showgirls and their in-the-money beaus has become iconic, thanks in part to lampoons in Preston Sturges’ SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS (where it’s verbally parodied as ANTS IN YOUR PLANTS read more
TV is Dead, Long Live TV!
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 3, 2015
“That people will only watch television like this in the future is so obvious,” Jerry Seinfeld said this week at the Hulu upfront event for advertisers in New York City. Seinfeld was talking about streaming of course, and his message was clear: subscription VOD services like Hulu will render read more
The Widescreen is Out There: Why Netflix May Be Covering Up “The X-Files” in HD
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Apr 26, 2015
There may be a conspiracy afoot at Netflix worthy of the Cigarette Smoking Man himself. One month after I reported that the world’s largest subscription video-on-demand service was streaming The X-Files in old, fuzzy, standard definition video transfers, Netflix has added sparkling new HD vers read more
BATMAN v SUPERMAN Trailer Re-Cut with Adam West and Christopher Reeve
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Apr 20, 2015
Holy send-up! Somebody re-cut the awful, ponderous trailer for Zack Snyder’s BATMAN v. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE with the decidedly non-ponderous Christopher Reeve as Superman and Adam West as Batman. Cinema geek Bobby Burns on YouTube intercut scenes from Richard Donner’s SUPERMAN: THE read more
Cora Sue Who? The 1930s Child Star You Don’t Know – But Should
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Apr 16, 2015
Even if you love old movies, there’s a good chance you haven’t heard of Cora Sue Collins. And that’s a shame, because the 87-year-old former child star is a living history of classic Hollywood. Collins acted in nearly 50 films between 1932 and 1945, performing with some of the biggest stars read more
Dead on Arrival at the TCM Film Fest
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Apr 10, 2015
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, in the following one it should be fired. – Anton Chehkov ACT ONE: (Interior) A plane bound for Hollywood. WILL, a handsome reporter who looks younger than his 45 years thanks to decades of moisturizer use, boards expectantly. Before he can stow read more
“Lost in Space” Launches on Blu-ray September 15
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Apr 3, 2015
I don’t remember exactly when I watched Lost in Space for the first time, but I do recall the following details: it was sometime in the mid-1970s; it was on my grandmother’s Zenith (with the remote control clicker); and my cousins John (older) and Patrick (younger) were with me. And I read more
How “The X-Files” Revival Impacts the Original – And Where to Stream it
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 25, 2015
After more than 200 episodes, two feature films, and countless ripoffs loving homages, The X-Files is set to return to TV as a six-episode limited series from creator Chris Carter, with stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprising their roles as F.B.I. agents Mulder and Scully. “I think of read more
TCM Takes First Step to Cutting the Cable Cord
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 20, 2015
It’s the news classic film fans have been waiting for: you can now watch Turner Classic Movies without cable or satellite. Sort of. On Wednesday, Sony launched PlayStation Vue, an Internet-delivered, subscription television service designed to compete with traditional cable and satellite TV. read more
Robert Osborne Will Miss TCM Film Festival due to “Minor Health Procedure”
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 18, 2015
Turner Classic Movies announced today on Twitter and Facebook that primetime host Robert Osborne, the face of the network since its launch in 1994, will not attend the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood next week, due to a “medical procedure.” In a letter from the 82-year-old host read more
Previously Owned: Many Happy Returns
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 14, 2015
March 14, 2006 I almost forgot that today was my mother’s 71st birthday. I say almost because I finally remembered at 11:16 p.m. And I was presented with a dilemma. My parents, objectively speaking, are old. They live in a retirement community in Port St. Lucie, Florida. And there’s not read more
Shampoo = Sex in SMARTEST GIRL IN TOWN (1936)
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 8, 2015
I’m a Pre-Code film snob. Or at least I’ve become one in recent years. If a sound film was released before July of 1934 (when enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines began in earnest), it’s a good bet I’ll watch it. I don’t care who stars read more
My TCM Film Fest Memories: AIRPLANE! (1980)
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 6, 2015
Last night I watched AIRPORT (1970) on TCM and it reminded me of one of my favorite memories from the TCM Classic Film Festival. At the fourth TCMFF in 2013, I joined a motley crew of my Old Movie Weirdo friends for a raucous, Saturday night screening of AIRPLANE! (1980) at the historic TCL Chinese read more
“In Search Of…” Leonard Nimoy’s 1970s Reality Show
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Feb 27, 2015
Leonard Nimoy called his 1975 autobiography I Am Not Spock. For me, at least at the time, that sentiment was accurate. I first discovered Nimoy, who died today at age 83, as the host and narrator of In Search Of…, a weekly “documentary” series focusing on paranormal, mysterious, read more
50 Years of THE ODD COUPLE
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Feb 20, 2015
The Odd Couple has been rebooted so many times in the last half century it’s difficult to keep track without a Felix Unger-style spreadsheet. So, as sloppy sports reporter Oscar Madison and persnickety photographer Felix Unger move in together again, this time on CBS in the person of Matthew read more