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Book reviews are back and we’re already gearing up for Christmas! In honor of the 68th anniversary of It’s a Wonderful Life, Simon & Schuster are releasing the original short story on which the film is based. A short foundation from which director Frank Capra expanded, Philip Van Dor read more

This week saw a lot of traffic thanks to TCM screening The Moon is Blue (it should be easy to figure out this week’s top post). 10. The Moon is Blue (1953) Part of this film’s popularity is its refreshingly risque material. It continues to delight every time I see it! And I just found read more

In 1942, the US hadn’t entered World War II and audiences were unaware of the horrific monster that Adolf Hitler would be identified as.  Director Ernst Lubitsch was aware of the chaos going on in Europe and documented it – while still remaining comic and romantic – in his play within read more

Some good news kicking things off this week. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced the recipients of the 2015 honorary Academy Awards. These awards are generally given out to humanitarians – in the form of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award read more

As I reported last week, James Ellroy (author of L.A. Confidential) is penning a remake of the classic Otto Preminger tale, Laura. As much as it pains me to do this, I figured I’d throw out a few casting suggestions although it’s doubtful this’ll ever come to fruition. (Remember wh read more

It’s my birthday today so I’m giving myself a day off from everything! I’ll have something for you all to read Wednesday. This might or might not be a post to guilt you fine readers into leaving me a birthday comment! Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are read more

Hello everyone, time for another month to start while I fill you in on what’s being planned for September over at Journeys in Classic Film. I’ve closed out a rather successful series of reviews as part of TCM’s Summer Under the Stars. I successfully reviewed a film a day – no read more

No real theme for what you were reading this week. A few stray Summer Under the Stars posts, but that’s all the consistency you guys provided me. 10. Leading Lady Tournament: 1970s Results 9. I’ll Be Seeing You (1944) Some Joseph Cotten fans visited the site, I see. 8. My Interview with read more

Much like the complete portrait, Portrait of Jennie is a lovely feature where lovely people act lovely. There isn’t anything negative about that, but with such an overly sweeping narrative about the power of love and watching the actors fawn and gush about how in love they are, a bolt of light read more

We’re jumping ahead a few decades more than the average review on this site in honor of the 1984-a-Thon Blogathon. I did, however, focus on a film with classic era sensibilities: Robert Zemeckis’ action/adventure, Romancing the Stone combines Indiana Jones – during its release the read more

What’s the in the news this week: Another Hollywood passing, a remake no one wants, Universal removing a piece of Hollywood history, what’s coming up on a few classic TV stations, events, and what’s new on DVD and Blu-ray. Another sad bit of news to report with the recent passing read more

School’s back in session and that means we’re officially nearing the end of the year! September is the last gasp before the onslaught of holiday themed films so let’s try to get as far away from those as we can since, come October, we won’t be escaping them. All times are Ea read more

Before today Philip Marlowe was Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, and his ultra-masculine, hardboiled take on the character set a high precedent for me. You can’t fault the studios for feeling equally wary in 1944 about casting song and dance man Dick Powell, two years before Bogart took the r read more

What you were reading this week: More tributes to TCM’s Summer Under the Stars, the return of an old favorite, and a rather random assortment of stray reviews. 10. Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955) 9. My Interview with Jane Withers The darling Jane returns to the most-read posts. 8. Kidnapped read more

Today’s film is adapts the successful stage play directed by George Cukor.  It’s a Who’s Who of actors telling a story about the society…and yet I was left bored.  I’m all for high-society ensemble films but Dinner at Eight is like a long-winded play filled with charact read more

What’s in this week’s update: News on an upcoming SAG recipient, more TCM documentaries coming to DVD, pricing changes for ClassicFlix members, and what’s coming to DVD and Blu-ray. In the interest of full disclosure, I work for the fine folks at ClassicFlix as their associate ed read more

Reviewing It Happened One Night was a long time in coming, but as I always say, what more can be said about a movie already universally praised?  I love It Happened One Night, but my praise isn’t effusive.  However, it’s cited as one of the best comedies for a reason, so let’s talk read more

**This post is written in participation with the Build-Your-Own Blogathon over at Classic Film and TV Cafe. Visit the site to read the other amazing participants’ entries. We diverge from Summer Under the Stars for a day to look a radio play turned film starring the double whammy of Barbara St read more

I won’t lie to you and backdate this post. Thankfully, not much happened during this week in classic film news so let’s get right into it. Unless you’ve lived under a rock, you know this week wasn’t kind to us film fans, both classic and otherwise. We got the one-two punch read more

The tale of the rascally outlaws ushered in the 1960s as a time of violence fastened together by sympathetic revolutionaries.  This revisionist legend romanticized the gangster genre, and heavily inspired director Terence Malick’s debut, Badlands.  With a fantastic cast, and a bevy of differen read more