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The final decade in our tournament sees five actresses whose careers are currently red-hot.  Three of them are Academy Award winners, one has been nominated several times, and another is in several franchise films.  The winner of this tournament will meet-up with the current slate of semi-finalists read more

  **This review is part of the John Garfield 100th Birthday Blogathon being hosted over at They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To.  You can read the other astounding contributions to the celebration over at this link.**   I can’t say that I’m a fan, or not a fan, of read more

You might find yourself suffering from actress tourney malaise, but have no fear because this is simply one decade in a grander tournament that I’m not running.  The fantabulous Monty of All Good Things does his March Madness actress tourney every year, and I volunteered to run the 1950s secti read more

  I dove into the HBO series of biopics with The Life and Death of Peter Sellers a few weeks ago.  I applaud HBO for having consistently high quality in the scripts, locations, and acting choices that I saw first in the Peter Sellers story, and that I saw in this week’s film, RKO 281.  Re read more

Every time I say “I’ll just throw in a news update because there’s nothing going on” I get inundated with awesome news. I think the news gods are being kind to me.  In today’s installment, we’ll look at a new celebrity biopic; Buster Keaton and Cleopatra are comin read more

I watched less than half of what I watched in January, but seeing as how February only has 28 days (and I watched 22 movies) I watched almost a movie a day!  Let’s look at what I went through this month. 1. 101 Dalmatians* 2. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers 3. Warner Brothers 90th Anniv read more

The AristoCats is an interesting animal (intentional pun), because, on the one hand, its story is deliberately lifted from past Disney features; but, on the other, it’s more adult and original than anything I’ve seen from them since the fairy-tale era.  In watching something like 101 Dal read more

As the decade tourneys win down, I’m not surprised that voter turnout has been so low.  I’ll cut to the chase, and just detail where everyone stands. With six votes (40% of the vote) is Julia Roberts Julia is only a point ahead of the second place contender, but as I mentioned in my or read more

I have quite a few movies of TCM Top 12′s past to watch.  Oh, how I wish I could just retire and work on the blog full-time (isn’t that a dream for every blogger).  The 31 Days of Oscar comes to a close, but that’s not to say there’s nothing worth watching this month.  There& read more

Movies about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been around since the police force, itself, was established.  There’s an entire webpage detailing the history of the RCMP (aka Mounties) in film which you can find here.  Pony Soldier was poised to be an A-list affair with dashing leading man read more

Another leading lady is crowned, and we’re almost done with our tournament.  The 1980s saw the lowest turnout so far with only 23 votes.  Towards the end it started to get a bit frightening because first and second were close to being tied.  That didn’t happen and our winner never gave read more

My horror film class did a Val Lewton double feature, and one of the choices was a movie I’d never seen (the first movie was Cat People which I reviewed during my 31 Days of Horror here).  The Seventh Victim is a bizarre movie that I’m still not sure I’ve processed fully.  On the read more

Only two weeks left in the Leading Lady tournament, and we’re entering into the newest crop of ladies.  The ladies presented here have had enduring careers, and are all in the high levels of the A-list; one of them is even ingrained heavily into the TCM world.  As with all past polls, voting read more

If you didn’t read my first article in this segment where Robert and I give our Oscar picks you can do so here. After last night’s ceremony, it seemed appropriate to have Robert and I stand tall and admit either defeat or failure the next day.  Thankfully, neither one of us looked hopele read more

I’m currently reading author Robert James’ comprehensive history of the Academy Awards entitled Who Won?!?: An Irreverent Look at the Oscars, Volume 1 and it is hilarious and insightful.  With the Oscars airing this evening, I thought it’d be awesome to ask a man who knows so much read more

The final Disney movie of the 1960s is dampened by tragedy.  The Jungle Book is cited as the last animated movie Walt Disney would personally oversee, as well as being the last movie to have Verna Felton as a voice actress; Felton died the day before Disney himself.  With that, there’s a sombe read more

  You really mustn’t go into Holiday expecting a Bringing Up Baby or a Philadelphia Story; that’s what I expected when I watched this.  Instead of wacky hijinks and poking fun at the stuffy upper-crust, director George Cukor imbues the wealthy with personality, fears, weaknesses, an read more

Can you believe we’re almost done with this tournament?  I’m not sure why, but it feels like it’s moving faster than the male tournament did.  Anyway, let’s look at where the ladies of the 1980s stand now.  There’s not much turnout, and the gap between first and second read more

Wow, there’s a lot of news this week.  Guess I jumped the gun on my last News From the Lake post.  In today’s edition, we’ll look at a whole mess of DVD releases coming up, and a brief foray into what’s going on at the TCM Classic Film Festival.  Let’s not waste any read more

It’s easy to say you love film noirs, but how many people actually understand what makes a film noir what it is?  What are the cultural impacts and themes that make up the noir movement?  Why did it last such a short amount of time, and what are the cultural legacies?  Thankfully, author Foste read more