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It’s another year of blogging under my belt and wow, three years goes by quickly. I thought I’d dedicate the final post of 2014 to what I’m thankful for as another year of fun with classic film gets underway: The big to-do of 2014 was my coverage of the TCM Classic Film Festival. I read more

Before I get to this year’s Christmas Day review let me wish each and every one of you dear readers a Merry Christmas (or whatever you choose to celebrate today) and a Happy New Year! Christmas 2014 concludes with another holiday movie remake. Penny Marshall’s Old Hollywood roots run dee read more

This is the first of two reviews I’ve written especially for this holiday season (don’t say I never got you anything for Christmas!). I gave my thoughts on 1947’s Miracle on 34th Street in a previous review which you can peruse here before reading my thoughts on the remake. I was r read more

Several films have tackled the subject of “mistaken maternity,” but Bachelor Mother is the best! This 1939 comedy quietly slid underneath the rules of the Production Code by having our leading lady stumble upon a foundling child, as opposed to the film’s original plot of having the 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

This review originally ran December 23rd, 2011.  I still adore this Christmas special! As we get ever closer to Christmas Day we’re hitting the best Christmas films to watch.  This isn’t a film per se, it’s a television special, but it’s iconic to Christmas.  It’s the read more

Originally published December 17th, 2012 The Bishop’s Wife was my big discovery last Christmas after a viewing on TCM.  I’m a Cary Grant fan, and thankfully one of the box sets of his films came with this included!  The Bishop’s Wife is a sweet, inspirational film about faith and read more

This review originally ran December 10th, 2012.  Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town is my favorite Rankin-Bass production that has fun songs, and a memorable villain!   Tonight’s film is a television movie, but it’s an iconic Christmas film which holds a place in most people’s hea 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

  News in a nutshell: A new event going on at the UCLA Film and Television archive, and what’s new on DVD and Blu-ray. All my L.A. readers, take a drive down the Billy Wilder Theatre in Westwood Village January 9th-February 28th to see the UCLA Film and Television Archive’s film s 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

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 It Happened on Fifth Avenue.  I’ll 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

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

Originally published May 6th, 2013 Meet Me in St. Louis came highly recommended due to its place as a musical classic, and because it’s got the downright angelic Margaret O’Brien who I praised heavily in my Christmas review of Little Women.  So, as I tend to do with blogathons, I used my read more

As we wrap up my look at the Rodgers and Hammerstein Collection on Blu-ray, I’m reposting my Mint in the Box review of The Sound of Music.  Please note, the Blu-ray in both is beautifully presented, but due to space the only bonus content on the disc in the box set is “Favorite Things,&# read more

  My final Film Class Wednesday movie is the fantastic Wizard of Oz.  This is a movie reviewed to death, so read my repost where I present a rather humorous take on the movie.  Something to note, this was also the closing-night film during this year’s TCM Film Festival. It’s difficu read more

The murder of William Desmond Taylor is one of Hollywood’s legendary unsolved murders, inspiring a cadre of books, although a big-screen adaptation hasn’t come to fruition. Author William J. Mann taps into the true crime world, creating a book that’s historical conjecture steeped i read more

I was wary of watching any versions of A Christmas Carol this year after I did an entire month of various adaptations for my old podcast.  Let’s just say after you watch four of those in a row you get bored with the story.  Interestingly, in looking back on that grand adventure I noticed I did read more

A few weeks back I’d mentioned the fantabulous webseries, A Quick Fortune. The series follows Kate (Erin Hunter) and Archie (James Gavigan), two Depression-era characters living in “dire straits” and constantly hunting for the fortune that will put them on Easy Street. If you haven read more