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I decided to watch Network after falling in love with Aaron Sorkin‘s latest television endevour, The Newsroom.  In reading the reviews that came out after the premier of Sorkin’s show the thing everyone kept mentioning was how this held up against Network so I figured “when in Rome read more

I hate to date myself but I’m finally in my decade.  Don’t misunderstand, I love classic movies but I was raised in the 1990s so I have deep-seated movie roots to all the men listed in this week.  It was really hard for me to settle on 1990s actors because I knew so many.  A few actors read more

I was surprised to look over the final poll numbers for the 1980s.  Mostly because there was a lot of back and forth over the last few days regarding 2nd-5th place.  We had quite a few flip-flops but as mentioned in Thursday’s update, it would take a miracle to dethrone the frontrunner…a read more

Another month and another TCM Top Twelve (if you’re keeping track I’ve reviewed two films that made my Top Twelve in May and one from my Twelve in June…that’s not good).  I’ve decided in the interest of my DVR to limit things to 12 and 12 alone, no honorable mentions (u read more

I’ll be postponing the contests for awhile, sadly the turn-out for this was not what I expected.  We do have winners though, and I thank them for their entries. Congrats go to STEPHANIE R. whose favorite movie is Airplane! (an amazing choice).  She’s won a copy of Roger Ebert‘s A read more

A few of my fellow bloggers reviewed director Whit Stillman‘s Damsels in Distress awhile back, a film I’m still hoping to see in the future.  Until that happens I figured it’d make sense to see some of Stillman’s past work as a way of gauging my interest in his future films. read more

I’m late, I’m late, for the final poll update!  Like the rhyme scheme I got going?  I think as we get into the final weeks of polling I’m going to be letting loose as things come to an end.  With that being said I’m trying to figure out how the final polls will go once all read more

**This is my contribution to The William Wyler Blogathon over at The Movie Projector.  Check out the other amazing entries in the blogathon here! I’d originally wanted to do Wyler’s amazing adaptation of Wuthering Heights but got beat out by the equally amazing blog Movie Classics whose read more

Thanks to the always amazing Tanya for convincing me to continue with the tournament through the 2010s!  That leaves us with 2 more weeks after the 80s and honestly, I’m kind of happy to be convinced and I think that will give us a better determination of who’s the true Leading Man. On read more

**This is the last call for the contest.  If you’d like to win either of these books now’s the time to get your entries in.  Contest closes June 29th** Yes there is a contest going on and this time I’m expanding to TWO winners!    I’m giving away a copy of two very different read more

There’s been some questions about my upcoming blogathon and to maximize the number of people interested I figured I’d provide a short little post fleshing out the details of the Universal Backlot Blogathon.  You don’t have to have a topic right now (I’ll be sending out a bunc read more

This is my contribution to the LAMBs Acting School 101.  Be sure to go over to the LAMB and check out the other participants work! Arnold Schwarzenegger is an enigma in my eyes.  I’ve loved his movies since I was a child and maybe it was wrong to let a 7-year-old watch Terminator or Total Reca read more

I’ve mentioned a few times wanting to do a blogathon of my own and now seems like a good a time as any to announce it’s happening!  This being a first effort I’m hoping I’m up to the task, and I’m also hoping a few kind people will be willing to participate.  Just what read more

Seems that the film reviews have taken a backseat over the weekend (my last film review was Friday’s rather scathing look at Beach Blanket Bingo) but it’s always nice to take a break.  I return with a film far better than BBB, it’s the 1957 movie The Three Faces of Eve.  You might read more

I’m astounded that we’ve been six weeks into this tournament!  Actually that saddens me because that’s six weeks of summer passing me by.  Oh well.  We’re into the 1980s and I have a very pressing issue I’d love to get some input on by anyone.  As mentioned in a previou read more

The results are in on the Leading Man of the 1970s and really it was no surprise.  28 votes total in this round and our number had a consistent lead throughout.  Find out how everywhere fared after the jump! Yep Clint Eastwood won with a total of ten votes.  That’s three up from his tally read more

If you read my review of the book Hollywood Movie Stills you should know I enjoy reading about aspects of the film industry that aren’t front and center.  Where Stills told about film photography, author Anthony Slide details the world of the film extra/stuntman/stand-ins of the early era of read more

I know Billy Wilder’s birthday was yesterday but I doubt being a day late to the party will discredit my love of Wilder by much.  Billy Wilder is probably one of the most iconic director/screenwriters out there who has crafted enough movies to grace every top film list in the country.  You can read more

I love memes!  I’ve seen the various relay races that have spread through the blogosphere in recent months, specifically the Ten Best Actors of All Time Relay Race that happened a month or so ago.  Sadly though I’d never been passed the baton and just had to watch from the sidelines̷ read more

I mentioned during my Gidget review that I was set to watch Beach Blanket Bingo in an effort to compare the two seminal “beach” movies.  If you haven’t read my review of 1959′s Gidget do so here and then come back.  I mentioned in the previous review that I didn’t expec read more