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News in a nutshell: What’s coming to getTV, Nitrate Picture Show passes are on sale, what’s new on DVD and Blu GetTV has a lot planned for January. The network just announced they’ll be airing the legendary episode of The Judy Garland Show with special guest Barbra Streisand on J read more

I’ve documented my adventures in bad noir before. With so many ingrained conventions inherent in the genre it’s unsurprising how often directors and screenwriters fall into the habit of giving us one positive for every three negatives; Flaxy Martin suffers from that ratio. Despite a dele read more

I’ve documented my adventures in bad noir before. With so many ingrained conventions inherent in the genre it’s unsurprising how often directors and screenwriters fall into the habit of giving us one positive for every three negatives; Flaxy Martin suffers from that ratio. Despite a dele read more

Watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory does a better job of identifying one’s personality than reading a horoscope. As a kid, you could tell the types of people you wanted to know (or not know) based on which child they connected with. Let’s face it, no one wanted to be the Charl read more

Watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory does a better job of identifying one’s personality than reading a horoscope. As a kid, you could tell the types of people you wanted to know (or not know) based on which child they connected with. Let’s face it, no one wanted to be the Charl read more

It was hard narrowing my original list of 78 films – all of which garnered three Ronnies and above – down to a scant twenty. Thankfully, if you read my 20 Worst Films list, you’ll notice I saw far more I enjoyed as opposed to hated, so much so that the top 20 is exclusively made up read more

One of the year’s more interesting compendiums is recounting the top ten articles and reviews you enjoyed reading throughout the year. We’ll also look at their placement in the site’s history overall, as well as their inclusion in year’s past. 10. Veronica: The Autobiograph read more

You probably still have enough TCM content saved on your DVR to last a year on its own, but it’s time to look at another ten films worth adding to your already overburdened television recorder. Here’s to an amazing New Year’s kickoff of another year with the wonders of TCM! **All read more

This weeks sees the closing of the book that is 2015 and another year covering classic cinema! Before I recount all the amazing things that happened this year let me start out, as always, by thanking the amazing people that visit the site daily. I’ll confess, I haven’t done right by you read more

The 1950s were a comfortable time for the Walt Disney Company; they knew how to cater to 1950s audiences. Their movies are perfect representations of the decade. By the time the 1960s rolled around Disney was starting to lose their footing (before completing failing at representing the zeitgeist) an read more

This review originally ran on December 20th, 2011.  My thoughts on the film itself haven’t changed, and have only grown. Natalie Wood continues to astound me, and the film has such love embedded in it. How can I say I’m a film fan, and actually write reviews for a living, if I’ve read more

This review originally ran December 25th, 2011.  This is still a must-watch as many times as you can. I recently watched the Ron Howard remake for this month a few days back and was horrified by what had been done to this great special.  Thankfully, rewatching this has made me all but forget that read more

Christmas comes with the promise of presents and joy, but as a classic film fan I’m always excited to see the various holiday promotional photos celebrities used to do honoring the holidays. Whether it’s Ann Miller wearing a bonnet with a live rabbit in it in honor of Easter or the count read more

Originally published December 27th, 2012 My final review for Christmas 2012 is the 1949 film Come to the Stable.  It’s not a Christmas movie per se, but it does include the building of a church in a town called Bethlehem so it’s good enough to round out the series.  Come to the Stable read more

Originally reviewed Remember the Night on December 16th, 2011 We journey back to 1940 for today’s 25 Days of Christmas film featuring two huge stars of day, Remember the Night.  I found this movie via Wikipedia and only knew it was the first film pairing up Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck read more

Originally published December 16th, 2014 Merry Christmas to all my awesome readers (or whichever holiday you choose to celebrate around this time).  I always close out my 25 Days of Christmas with a new movie for Christmas Day and this year I had two newly introduced movies up for review, this and read more

Originally published December 2nd, 2011 This is an odd one to group with Marilyn movies as she’s literally in it for a minute (I’d say less but I didn’t time it).  O. Henry’s Full House an anthology film of adapted stories from the works of O. Henry.  It’s certainly not read more

News in a nutshell: WAY too much news to mention (the detriment of being swamped this time of year). The remake train keeps chugging with Variety reporting that Tom Cruise is being courted for Universal’s upcoming reboot of The Mummy. The studio has been trying to push an “extended uni read more

This originally ran December 14th, 2011.  Really my thoughts on this film haven’t changed.  I still adore Vera-Ellen‘s dancing but I don’t love this movie.  Yep, it’s official: I’m not a Bing Crosby fan.  It’s not the movies themselves that are bad, but as an read more

The tree is up, the stockings are hung by the chimney with care, and it’s time to wait for ‘ole St. Nick. What can you do in the meantime? Watch a movie, of course! I’m a big fan of Christmas films, and some of my favorites have such iconic moments that make me smile, cry, and reme read more