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Things were heating up towards the end of the week, and our winner won by a lone vote.  I would have liked a bit of a shake-up as we really haven’t seen an upset in this tourney, but it doesn’t look like it’ll happen in the 1970s.  28 votes were tabulated, which is average for the read more

The 1980s.  The era of excess, neon, and shoulder pads.  The ladies assembled in this decade are living legends who continue to rack up awards and are cited as the best of the best.  We have action heroes, comediennes, and those who did a little bit of everything.  The 1980s boasts one of my favorit read more

Figured I’d delve into a quick News From the Lake update for everyone.  Exciting news courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox that I really wanted to discuss as well as a Lake Update for March!  A dual post, so let’s see what’s going on! It surprises me to find out who doesn’t read more

**This entry is my contribution to the Fabulous 40s Blogathon hosted by the Classic Movie Blog Association.  Please check out the other fabulous contributions to the blogathon here.** I immediately had the movie in mind when I was asked if I wanted to participate in the Fabulous 40s Blogathon: Anyth read more

Sorry for the interruption in the Journeys in the Disney Vault schedule.  Let’s just say siblings coming to stay for extended periods of time…bad idea.  Anyway, we return to the Disney films of the 1960s and I feel as if I’ve hit a rough patch for the next few weeks.  Several of read more

Tonight’s film class involved me watching a movie I’d never seen (rather rare in my academic career).  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a fascinating work layered with complex imagery and themes.  This post might not necessarily be a review of the film, but more of an essay because there’ read more

The voting has slowed down significantly this decade, what gives people (I say that with love)?  Hopefully we can get respectable numbers, on par with the other decades, between now and Monday’s reveal.  Let’s look at where our ladies have landed.  The winner is declared Monday! In the read more

Since there was no update posted this is the first most are hearing about the numbers for the 1960s tourney (sorry for the lack of update by the way).  An update didn’t really matter since our winner declared herself from the beginning and never once gave up the reins.  I’m incredibly read more

The further adventures in my American Horror class continue, and we’re still plumbing the depths of 1930s Universal Studios horror.  It’s been awhile since I’ve seen the Lugosi Dracula, and in rewatching it on a big screen I wouldn’t call it the greatest installment in the Un read more

Can you believe we’ve entered the halfway point in this tournament.  We’ve got a diverse slate of ladies so far, but there’s always room for more.  As we get deeper into the generations it’s become harder to find actresses who truly fit into one decade.  Each of the ladies read more

In the interest of diversity, I’ll be slowly integrating mainstream and critically lauded biopics into Biopic Theater.  Today’s entry into Biopic Theater won two Golden Globes and aired on the HBO network.  I don’t know much about Peter Sellers outside of his movie roles, but The read more

In this entry of News From the Lake we’re going through the wealth of TCM news that has recently come out, including new DVD releases, updates on the TCM television schedule, as well as updates on TCM’s Road to Hollywood series.  Let’s dive in! The first news item is that TCM is read more

As with the majority of Veronica Lake‘s work, I Wanted Wings has not received any DVD release.  Thankfully, the fantastic Barbara of Reel Old Films offered to send me a complimentary DVD and this was the one I picked.  I’m actually sad I picked this one, because it’s not the best read more

And I finally get to a TCM Top 12 film reviewed in the month it airs!  Can’t say that will happen again, but I feel very pleased with myself.  In honor of Warner Brothers 90th Anniversary, as well as TCM’s own 31 Days of Oscar weekend devoted to nominees from the studio, this short but read more

Back with another foray in News From the Lake.  In this installment, there’s an update on casting for the upcoming Mary Pickford biopic, as well as a few classic DVD release dates you should know about. Variety is reporting that Julia Stiles has signed on to play acclaimed screenwriter Franc read more

The 1960s presents us with a distinct group of females as we move away from polished glamour girls, into beautiful ladies who have acting talent to boot (not that the women listed before possessed none of those things).  Here, we find ourselves moving away from conventional beauty (sorry Shelley, go read more

  Wow, quite the turn-out for this week’s tournament.  The final tally of votes, 37, puts this up there with the 1940s in terms of highest voter turnout.  Our winner blazed a trail from the minute voting opened, and while others tried to take her on, it was no use.  Let’s see who read more

Better late than never, right?  Over the next eleven weeks, we’ll be entering the Disney period where talking animals ruled the roost.  You’ll see humans in several of these, but the worlds created are ones where the animals talk, and it’s completely okay to humans.  In a few cases read more

2013 is officially a month in, and with that a return to school came with it.  I did see quite a fair amount of movies this month, and since I’ve only been in a school one week I can’t blame that for the decrease in output between here and December.  Either way, I think this might be my read more

I’m taking a class on American horror films, so don’t be surprised to see a spate of horror movie reviews randomly crop up throughout the next few months.  Expect said reviews to be fairly short, as I’ll be writing them immediately after class.  My first day saw us watching read more