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Returning to the world of film reviews with today’s movie, the 1968 version of The Thomas Crown Affair.  I’ve seen the 1999 remake with Pierce Brosnan which I actually enjoy.  I’ve seen Steve McQueen in two other films that I liked so figured this would be a combination of a bunch read more

I read a lot of Hollywood biographies and non-fiction stories and figured the blog might be a great forum for me to review said books.  I was inspired by Rianna, creator and writer over at the excellent film blog Frankly, My Dear who did a book review on Carole Lombard. For Christmas I got the book, read more

I figured I’d do something a little different in today’s entry and do a list…my first of hopefully many.  I started with a list of my ten favorite movies of the 1930s.  Again, these aren’t “the best” or “must-sees” they’re my favorites.  And favo read more

This was a recommend from my fantastic podcast listeners and man was it a surprise to me.  There’s been a huge surge in the “revisionist” fairy tale movement that shows no signs of stopping as evidenced by the numerous Snow White tales we have coming out this year alone.  This film read more

Any movie starring William Holden is worth viewing immediately (if you haven’t read my reprint of my Lusty Men in Classic Film article, it details why).  The bonus incentive for me watching Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is that movie poster (I’m a girl with man’s brain I think) read more

Yesterday was an experience for sure!  There’s not many places where I live where one can see classic films.  Sure there’s library but that’s pretty much a projector screen in a small room.  A local theater used to show classic films (where I was lucky to see Singin’ in the read more

Calamity Jane was the latest film I had to watch for my Women in Film class and this movie is frustrating.  It’s cute and has some good songs and Doris Day is beautiful no matter how hard she tries, but the issue of femininity and female competition over men really irked me.  Part of this can read more

This is my second viewing of Double Indemnity, and my first time where I actually had to study it critically as part of my Women in Film class.  The first time I saw the movie was for an earlier film class and while I enjoyed it, I didn’t consider it anything special (it was certainly no Big read more

I’m reprinting my article on The Lusty Men of Classic Film here in case people don’t want to transfer to a new site.  The only problem is the videos that accompany each section will not play on here so if you want to see the clips you’ll have to check out the article as originally read more

I thought instead of a summation of Harlow’s life and works I’d include a DVD review of the two box sets I was working with while doing this retrospective (might also grease the wheels with some DVD companies too!).  The only films I had to find via outside resources were the earlier fil read more

While you wait for my latest installment of the Films of Jean Harlow check out my latest CC2K article about the sexy men of classic film. Any I forgot to mention? The Lusty Men of Classic Film. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com accoun read more

The Films of Jean Harlow comes to a close and it’s all rather bittersweet as Harlow didn’t complete this final film.  Saratoga just wasn’t for me, namely because I don’t find anything compelling about horse racing, but her relationship with Gable’s character is great an read more

Libeled Lady has slowly become of my favorite movies in recent years, and cemented my affection for William Powell.  They don’t make screwball comedies like this, and I’m almost afraid of mentioning it because it’s got a premise that I know Hollywood today could screw up.  The stor read more

Another less than good movie and we’re coming down to the final days of Jean Harlow and her films.  Personal Property was released three months before her death and while the story is lifeless, it’s evident Harlow herself is in ill health which ultimately colors the movie as a whole.  A read more

Well it seems Wife vs. Secretary was a fluke because another weak movie today.  It’s not that Suzy’s bad, it just doesn’t know if it wants to be a war film with spies and intrigue, or a Jean Harlow romance.  Sure the movie follows Harlow’s character, the aforementioned Suzy, read more

I feel like I’ve been harsh on the films of Jean Harlow.  It’s not that their bad movies, I just expected more from them…more humor, more heart, and I haven’t gotten that.  Well, it’s turning around with a film that’s easily on par with Libeled Lady (the more I read more

We’re entering the final year of Jean Harlow’s life and she would only make six more movies before succumbing to uremic poisoning at the age of 26.  Today’s film, Riffraff, is a melodramatic pre-cursor to her pairing with Spencer Tracy in Libeled Lady.  In many ways, the film is read more

So today is another divergence from the Films of Jean Harlow but I’m proud to announce my first participation in a Blog-a-Thon.  The excellent classic film blog Comet Over Hollywood is devoting this weekend to stars we lost before their time.  After you read my choice, go over to Comet and rea read more

I think these movies are starting to blend.  That or the screenwriters and directors were just so uninspired that they started recycling from other works.  I mentioned the numerous influences in yesterday’s film Reckless.  Today’s film China Seas is almost a direct sequel to Red Dust read more

Today’s film should have been my favorite of the two box sets I’m working with, but it was just weird and I mean weird like Bombshell in that it had a bizarre tone and a really disjointed script.  The film literally squeezes in every genre of film in a 97 minute run time.  Other similari read more