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  News in a nutshell: An update on a film project, TCM has a lengthy list of announcements, getTV programming, and what’s new on DVD and Blu. You might remember my interview with Monika Henreid, the daughter of actor Paul Henreid, from a few weeks back. Then, as now, Monika is dedicated read more

20th Century Fox were masters of the prestige picture. Even when a movie wasn’t about grand sweeping themes it at least looked and acted opulently. Considered a hard sell for adaptation Fox snatched up the rights for $250,000 plus 20% of the net profits to W. Somerset Maugham’s novel The read more

With Hollywood in the midst of a biopic bonanza it was only a matter of time before they turned to depicting some element in the lives of the “Hollywood Ten,” the various screenwriters, directors, and other Hollywood personalities declared “hostile witnesses” during the House read more

It’s been a mini-Lifetime movie marathon over the last three weeks with both Grace of Monaco and The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe preceding today’s film. Where those latter two Lifetime features had the benefit of A) decades of written and filmed history to put us in perspective and B) read more

News in a nutshell: Universal decides to save their silent films, Fathom Events announces two upcoming screenings, getTV celebrates Rosalind Russell, and what’s new on DVD and Blu-ray! It comes with mixed emotions but Universal Studios recently announced plans to restore 15 classic silent fi read more

It’s always fun watching two movies with similar plots and released ridiculously close apart, and seeing which one is better remembered. In this case, there’s little director Roy Rowland could do with Witness to Murder that would make it stand out against the better regarded Alfred Hitch read more

The summer is here, and if you’ve followed my various news posts than you know it’s all about TCM’s upcoming Summer of Darkness. Coupled with two months of films noir, TCM and Ball State University are pairing up to teach an online course on noir as an added way to get into the fil read more

Just last week I called the biopics on Lifetime “low-hanging fruit.” The fact that the network was moving forward on the umpteenth Marilyn Monroe biopic failed to inspire confidence, not just from me but Marilyn Monroe biographer Carl Rollyson. With trepidation I sat down to find out abo read more

  The summer is heating up and so is TCM. The summertime isn’t just celebrating the end of school or the beach, for TCM fans it’s about amazing movies leading up to August’s Summer Under the Stars. To tide you over before then, TCM is airing their Summer of Darkness, an all-no read more

 News in a nutshell: News from getTV, TCM, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, as well as what’s new on DVD and Blu. Hot on the heels of TCM’s upcoming Summer of Darkness, getTV decides to enter the mysterious territory of mystery in July with 19 classic crime dramas airing as pa read more

Lifetime, the studio that’s brought back to the biopic in a way that’s both fascinating and terrifying, has set their sights on our favorite “blonde bombshell,” Marilyn Monroe. In honor of their upcoming presentation of The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe this week, I sat down read more

I’ve probably said this about Lifetime biopics before: attacking them is like picking low-hanging fruit. As Lifetime becomes the de facto biopic factory, they’ve certainly injected an added air of quality to their work, as evidenced by their acquisition of Olivier Dahan’s Grace of read more

With the passing of each generation it’s fun watching classic films to take in (and lampoon) fashions, hairstyles, or narrative ideas. In the 1970s and 1980s you got countless films fearing demonic possession and Satanic cults in light of the Manson Family trial. And yes, the 1970s was best ex read more

Veronica Lake didn’t always pick the best projects and her work in the 1950s started the steady decline into obscurity we see today. It’s a shame, but she didn’t do herself a lot of favors when she was working in dogs like Stronghold. Lake is probably the lone high point of an inco read more

**This is reposted in honor of the My Favorite Classic Movie Blogathon, hosted by the Classic Film and TV Cafe.** Genevieve Bujold crafted a strong body of work in the ’70s and ’80s, but no performance stands out more than her starring role as Anne Boleyn in Anne of the Thousand Days.  read more

With Lifetime preparing for a turn on the Marilyn Monroe biopic bandwagon, I figured it might be a good time to finish up a few of the remaining Marilyn biopics I’ve had lying around for awhile. Marilyn: The Untold Story was the ABC Sunday Night Movie back in 1980, based on Norman Mailer’ read more

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – JUNE 01: Actress Monika Henreid attends the 8th Annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival at the Writers Guild Theater on June 1, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images) Predominately identified as raconteur Victor Laszlo in the iconic Casa read more

**This post is written as part of The Great Katharine Hepburn Blogathon. Click here to read the work of other participants.** Long-time readers of Journeys in Classic Film know how I feel about positive portrayals of femininity in cinema and how difficult that can be when discussed films created dur read more

This Mother’s Day we should all hug our moms…for fear they decide to beat us with a wire hanger! Mommie Dearest, the movie that’s collectively become synonymous with schlock and the “mother” of all bad movie moms. No one walked away from this movie unscathed – Fay read more

  News in a nutshell: Get ready for what getTV has in store for June, TCM prepares to turn the summer dark, and what’s new on DVD. May is just beginning, but getTV prepares for June with a few amazing upcoming themes. First off, fans of Rosalind Russell will be excited to hear about an read more