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It’s a pretty DVD/Blu-ray heavy week this week; isn’t everyday?  In this update we’ll look at some TCM developments and then run-down some recently announced movies that will be coming to store shelves soon. A month or so back I discussed who was joining TCM on the TCM Classic Cr read more

Longtime readers of my site are aware of my love/hate relationship with Jimmy Stewart.  It isn’t that I hate him, I just find a lot of his iconic roles to be overhyped.  With that, I decided to devote a day to him as part of my Summer Under the Stars series to move away from the Jimmy Stewart read more

John Travolta ended up losing his day and will only get a few hours alongside Judy Garland and Katharine Hepburn.  Sorry John, I’ll do better next year!  Out of the multitude of Travolta’s films, there’s a handful that are considered “classic” and Saturday Night Fever read more

I’m a fan of author Peter Biskind and his works on film history; his books Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Down and Dirty Pictures, and Seeing is Believing are on my bookshelf and have colored a lot of my film criticism.  He’s recently turned to focusing on stars and directors starting with read more

I picked the wrong Katharine Hepburn movie for her day.  Sorry, but I found Morning Glory to be a lesson in tedium swathed in furs and jewels.  The backstage drama has been examined in countless films (I spent an entire week covering Busby Berkeley‘s far superior examples in the genre), and read more

Reviews of unabashed praise are rare for me, and hard to write because there’s only so many permutations of the phrase “It’s freaking awesome!”  A Star Is Born has been done countless times (and was remade again in 1976), both literally and peripherally.  I’ve seen snip read more

We’re back with the final films remaining in the Journeys in the Disney Vault series.  The 2000s were a time of great upheaval, more so than the passing of Walt Disney or the hostile takeovers of the 1980s-1990s.  The 2000s saw Disney floundering in an animation field that was rapidly changing read more

Summer Under the Stars has already seen a director in the spotlight (Otto Preminger and Laura which you can read here).   For today, we’ll look at the directing duo of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.  The Red Shoes is a swirling, glorious fairy tale of artistic expression and obsession. read more

This week is all DVD/Blu-ray releases, and with the holidays right around the corner, you’ll be wanting to add a few of these to your wishlist.  On a side note, I can’t believe this year is almost over!  Once my birthday rolls around in two weeks I’m full-speed ahead for the holida read more

TCM’s schedule might be honoring Dame Maggie Smith, but I chose another English lady to salute today: Dame Julie Andrews (I don’t believe she’s officially been given the title, and if not what’s the holdup?).  I had several options I could have employed, including my personal read more

**This is an entry in participation with the 2013 TCM Summer Under the Stars Blogathon hosted by Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence and ScribeHard On Film** If Summer Under the Stars is classic film Christmas, then is William Holden day Christmas Eve?  His day was my most anticipated and in celebrati read more

The title of actress Mary Wicke’s biography is comic and tragically true; a woman whose face you remember, but have difficulty placing her.  When I started describing Wickes to my mother, she immediately believed that Wickes played Mrs. Kravitz on Bewitched.  I had to laugh as author Steve Tar read more

Kino Classics’ Mario Bava Collection continues to put out quality transfers (although skimping on bonus content) of movies that wouldn’t get that type of treatment otherwise.  For several decades, Kidnapped (also known as Rabid Dogs according to IMDB) was considered a lost film.  After read more

This isn’t necessarily a reprint of my original review.  While the content of the film remains the same, Kino has released a restored Blu-ray edition.  I will include new information in italics regarding the placement of segments and bonus content. Today’s terrifying film is the 1963 read more

A debate rages as to whether The Long, Long Trailer is just a 90-minute episode of I Love Lucy, and I would answer that it is and it isn’t.  The various comic pratfalls of a couple bonding whilst owning a mobile home are extremely sitcomish, but it’s all delightful in that 1950s kitschy read more

I went into dictator mode today, making a last-minute change and foregoing Gene Hackman day (sorry, Gene!) and going with TCM’s scheduled tribute to Gregory Peck.  I’ve had Spellbound on Blu-ray for awhile, and it was part of my TCM Top 12 in January, so it made sense to review it.  A read more

**This is an entry in participation with the 2013 TCM Summer Under the Stars Blogathon hosted by Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence and ScribeHard On Film** “I do declare…” that Jezebel is a darker, sexually potent version of Gone With the Wind…and enjoyable to boot (you all s read more

The news column made it out on Wednesday, something to be thankful for, right?  A pretty slow news week, but I still have a few DVD/Blu-ray announcements, as well as a Kickstarter project you might want to look into! Classic film fans aren’t millionaires, but everyone has that one genre or su read more

Wuthering Heights is one of my favorite books, and I conveniently bought the 1939 adaptation with Sir Laurence Olivier recently (I totally didn’t come up with arbitrary excuses to rewatch my favorites as part of Summer Under the Stars).  Every literary fan has their favorite adaptation of Emil read more

Hollywood photography has changed as the media has changed; I would say it’s for the worst.  There’s something about staring at beautifully composed portraits of glamorous celebrities (regardless of black and white or color) that we lose today with paparazzi photos and Instagram.  A year read more