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  Not quite the heated fight of the 1940s; the 1950s has one clear front-runner who has been decimating the competition.  Honestly, I’d consider this week’s match set, but there’s always surprises.  Let’s so at where this week’s crop of ladies have fallen.  Voting read more

A new month, and thus, a new TCM Top Twelve.  For long-time fans of the channel, you should be aware of TCM’s two big “events:” August has Summer Under the Stars, and February has 31 Days of Oscar.  Every movie airing in primetime, and quite a few outside of that sphere, have been read more

Due to me forgetting to close the polls at midnight, we ended up with an overflow of votes that gave us a tie.  I will say that with 37 votes (32 on poll, 2 on Facebook and 3 on Twitter) that’s the highest voter turnout so far.  Thanks to the followers of Facebook and Twitter, a winner was dec read more

If I Were Free made my TCM Top Twelve list in December (have I mentioned how far behind on those I am?), and I have to say…it didn’t really deserve the spot.  This is a melodramatic pre-Code that isn’t salacious enough to be “forbidden,” nor is it unique enough to diffe read more

If you thought the 1940s was a decade filled with fantastic female talent, wait till you see the line-up for the 50s!  The ladies assembled here show the dichotomy in femininity during this decade.  You have the sweet and innocent clashing with the ambitious and sexual, with a few walking the tightr read more

I figured I’ll do this whenever I have a few items worth discussing.  I’ll refrain from setting a weekly schedule just in the interest of timeliness.  In this installment, we’ll discuss casting in a new Errol Flynn biopic as well as updates on the upcoming TCM Classic Film Festival read more

I skipped Biopic Theater last week, but boy do I have a doozy of a film for you.  This is the last of the James Dean biopics (that I know of), and I think it quite possibly is the worst.  To go further, I think this could be this year’s Goodbye, Norma Jean in terms of being one of the worst movies I read more

My Road to the Oscars series continues over at CC2K.  Here’s my thoughts on Argo. Road to the Oscars 2012: Argo. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using read more

  Sleeping Beauty marks the end of an era in Disney history.  Not only was it the last Disney animated movie to have its animation cels hand-inked, Princess Aurora is the last Disney Princess till The Little Mermaid in 1989!  We’re headed into a string of talking animals (give or take read more

The Road to the Oscars keeps turning.  Here’s my look at the David O. Russell comedy/drama Silver Linings Playbook. Road to the Oscars 2012: Silver Linings Playbook. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out read more

  A rather dramatic sequence of voting over the last few days.  If you’ve been following my Twitter updates than you’d know the roller-coaster of actresses that have been in the top position.  Right now, we’re at a tie between two leading ladies that hopefully will get sorted read more

Well, what do you know?  I can review a TCM Top 12 movie in the month it airs.  Of course, out of the twelve movies I listed I watched the one I believed would be the worst.  Surprisingly, TerrorVision is a hilarious hybrid of 80s MTV/materialism and a 1950s sci-fi monster movies.  I have to believe read more

It was Cary Grant‘s birthday a few days ago, and TCM did a fantastic tribute to him that I ended up devoting my entire Saturday to.  Out of the three films I watched, that TCM played, I’ve reviewed two already (Monkey Business and Notorious).  Thankfully, they showed a movie that graced read more

  What a race for our first week.  A healthy 24 votes which I believe was better than the 1930s in the men’s race.  We had a clear-cut winner early on who continued to stay on top leaving the others to all settle with respectable numbers.  Let’s look at where everyone ended up, and read more

  The 1940s; a time of femme fatales and exotic beauties, peekaboo hair, and dominant and aggressive women who knew what they wanted.  I had quite a few ladies worthy of this decade, but I think the final five present a formidable challenge.  Each has their own distinctive persona, despite thre read more

I mentioned on Twitter that I wouldn’t be doing my Road to the Oscars series on the blog this year.  I am, however, doing it on my other site CC2K.  Here’s the link to my Road to the Oscars 2012: Zero Dark Thirty review. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are read more

I’ve also done my review for Life of Pi already.  Road to the Oscars 2012: The Life of Pi. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. read more

Another issue of News From the Lake!  So, question for readers of this column: Do you want a set day for this, simply post during slow/no review days, or squeeze it when I ave a few stories worth writing about (i.e. now).  I’m not sure there’s enough to make this a daily thing.  Let me read more

Lady and the Tramp is probably the first Disney film I’ve never seen.  Sure, I’ve seen the odd clip here and there, and I’ve heard the popular songs “We Are Siamese” and “Belle Notte;” but I haven’t seen the actual movie.  Disney and their popular R read more

In honor of Cary Grant‘s 109th birthday I decided to count my top ten favorite Cary Grant movies.  As always I differentiate between “favorite” and “best.”  These are the films I enjoy, but they might not be the most exemplary works created.  As always I value others read more