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More DVD news coming your way in this week’s Lake Update.  We’ll check out to add to your Amazon wishlist courtesy of TCM, Kino, Olive Films, Warner Archive, and Twentieth Century Fox. TCM is set to release a box set devoted to Boris Karloff detailing his criminal roles.  Karloff: Crim read more

The story of the “cute little jazz killer” who showed that murder and sin can easily be forgiven if you have a pretty face has been told in several stories, most memorably in the 2002 Best Picture winner, Chicago.  Roxie Hart is a less glamorous version of the same story – and it&# read more

In honor of the 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray release of The Great Escape, I’m going to discuss the film and its legacy on popular culture.   I’ll also include a discussion of the Blu-Ray and announce a contest so that you can win your own copy! The Great Escape follows a ragtag group of POW read more

**This is my contribution to the Mary Astor blogathon.  You can see the rest of the contributions over at Silver Screenings  or Tales of the Easily Distracted  Meet Me in St. Louis came highly recommended to me due to its place as a musical classic, and because it’s got the downright angelic read more

We’re officially at the end of the 1980s!  The Little Mermaid ushered in a string of hits, both commercially and critically, that would spark off the Disney Renaissance.  From here on in, the studio was taken seriously, eventually working their way into the Academy Awards.  The Little Mermaid read more

I’m surprised how often this is compared to the 1945 Joan Crawford melodrama, Mildred Pierce, because they’re strikingly different.  Sure, they both feature determined mothers yearning to please their daughters, but Stella Dallas is rooted in reality unlike the latter (not to say that I read more

Finally, an update that isn’t simply an addendum to the end of the News From the Lake!  Well this is just a brief update alerting you fine readers to what’s going on with the site this month.  I’ll be discussing some upcoming things including asking for volunteers for my upcoming read more

It’s Wednesday and that means some more News From the Lake.  Today we’ll look at an upcoming movie auction of some pretty incredible, and rare, movie memorabilia… If you were at the TCM Classic Film Festival this weekend then the name Bonhams must have been around constantly; the read more

I made time to watch Panic in the Streets over a year ago, and for one reason or another never finished it, but thankfully the fine folks at Fox have changed all that with their recent Blu-Ray release of the movie!  The film isn’t Kazan‘s best work, but is a highly functional film noir read more

While school doesn’t end for a few weeks, it’s summer in my book and that’s reflected in the fantastic slate of movies I’ve assembled for this month’s TCM Top Twelve.  You’ll see a bit of romance, comedy, musical, film noir, and the return of the TCM Documentary read more

Another excellent film theory/criticism/social commentary worth seeking out for this week’s Hollywood Review (I will be reintegrating the title back in, but I think for the safety of my fingers this will be the regular name).  Author Ty Burr has painstakingly traced the development of the read more

Biopic Theater gets a shot of class this week with the Academy Award nominated film, Gods and Monsters.  I figured it was an appropriate choice since we came to the end of my series of reviews from my American Horror class.  Gods and Monsters resulted in an Oscar for Best Screenplay, as well as nomi read more

This week’s installment of Journeys in the Disney Vault is special because we are officially halfway through the entire Disney animated canon (there’s 53 movies – the last of which comes out this year – and I did round-up)!  I’m proud of myself that I’ve gotten th read more

I started this column looking at the “brilliant” idea Hollywood has to remake Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca.  I figured I’d have a few months, at least, before the next round of studio execs picking random old movie titles out of a hat would happen.  Alas, it was not to be.  Via read more

  My American horror reviews will be coming to an end after this as the final weeks of school see us watching modern horror films, but ending with the granddaddy of the slasher feels correct.  I’ve watched Halloween in bits and pieces prior to watching it in class, and I have to say, it&# read more

A light news segment posted late on a Wednesday night.  In this review we’ll look at the last bit of TCM Classic Film Fest news since the fest has already started, as well as a slew of upcoming DVDs and Blu-Rays. The TCM Classic Film Festival is in full swing starting tomorrow, so have fun read more

Slowly, and I mean slowly, but surely getting out a few TCM Top Twelve reviews out there.  The next four weeks will be erratic with finals ramping up, but hey, that means blogging should get fast and furious after that.  That’s out-of-the-way, so let’s go Italian for today’s review read more

Los Angeles is commonly identified through several key locations: the Hollywood Sign, the Hollywood Bowl, etc.  But one principal location that is both a representation of, and a forgotten symbol of, Hollywood is the infamous Chateau Marmont Hotel.  Authors Raymond Sarlot and Fred E. Basten seek to read more

With 1986′s The Great Mouse Detective we’re inching ever closer to the Disney Renaissance that would go on into the beginning of the 1990s.  It’s not commonly known, but this film is attributed as the originator of the Renaissance, although the most commonly cited movie is 1989R read more

While exploring the latest slate of releases from Twilight Time, I’ve been surprised at the enjoyment I’ve derived from them, and while this last one isn’t my favorite it’s a worthy effort from a director known for his ambition.  The Fury is director Brian De Palma‘s fo read more