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King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman's Technicolor Revue by James Layton and David Pierce foreword by Michael Feinstein November 2016 304 pages Media History Press Amazon - Barnes and Noble - Powell's King of Jazz (1930) was an ambitious project. The darling of Carl Laemmle's heir Carl Laemmle Jr., it so read more

Ex-con turned British spy Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) is sent to Berlin on a mission. He must find Soviet intelligence officer in charge of the Berlin Wall, Colonel Stok (Oskar Homolka) and make him defect from his position. Palmer is tasked to concoct an elaborate escape out of Berlin for Stok wit read more

It's time for my fourth annual summer reading challenge! This is a great way to tackle your growing pile of unread film books. All the details about this challenge can be found on my 2016 Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge page. Here are some of the basics. Sign up for the challenge h read more

The year was 1963 and Columbia Pictures was in a pickle. They had two Cold War movies currently in production that basically told the same story but in very different ways. One was Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a farce based on the otherwise read more

2022 #ClassicFilmReading ChallengeMay 25th to September 15 2022Today I'm thrilled to announce the 2022 #ClassicFilmReading Challenge! Every year I host this challenge to encourage you to read and review six classic film books this summer/winter (depending on where you live. If you don't think y read more

In 1923, Gloria Swanson was a bonafide star. She had over 40 films under her belt and a few more years of silent film fame ahead of her before the industry transitioned to talking pictures. Then there is her fabulous comeback with Sunset Blvd. (1950) which is a completely different story. Hollywood read more

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin A Hollywood Memoir by Victoria Riskin Pantheon Hardcover ISBN: ISBN 9781524747282 February 2019 416 pages Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powells "My mother had a pioneer resilience, a vulnerability, a need for admiration... she never expected life to magically read more

 Photo by Susan Johann"As a writer you strive for a sense of truth." — Horton FootePlaywright Horton Foote (1916-2009) had been honored with many awards and nominations in his lifetime including Emmy awards, Tony nominations, the National Medal of Arts and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He w read more

If you haven't already signed up for TCM's streaming service FilmStruck now is the best time. FilmStruck, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Digital, will be adding hundreds of classic movies to the service. And to celebrate beloved movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood, TCM Select will offer stre read more

Today is my birthday. It falls so close to Thanksgiving that it often gets overlooked which suits me just well because as I get older these anniversaries get more and more depressing. So today I decided to honor someone other than myself who was born on November the 25th. I first discovered Charles read more

Premiering this week on Turner Classic Movies is the excellent documentary Dean Martin: King of Cool. Directed by Tom Donahue and produced by Ilan Arbodela, this film chronicles the life and career of Dean Martin, from his early days singing in the nightclub circuit, becoming one half of the outrage read more

I'm happy to be partnering with TCM and Running Press for this exclusive cover reveal. That's right! You are seeing the cover of their upcoming book here first.  Introducing:  Cinematic Cities: New York: The Big Apple on the Big Screen by Christian Blauvelt On Sale Novem read more

Promotional Still from The Last Command (1955). The film was shot in TruColor. (Photo Source) Director Frank Lloyd's The Last Command (1955) tells the story of Jim Bowie (Sterling Hayden) and the events leading up to the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. Tensions between the Mexican government and read more

Happy Birthday to Norman Lloyd! He turns 100 today. I had the pleasure of seeing Norman Lloyd at the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival. I shot a video of him in conversation with Leonard Maltin at the screening of Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). I'm sharing it here today in celebration read more

August has been a hectic month and I've been out of the loop of everything online that is classic film related. I've been MIA from this blog mostly because I've been spending every spare moment working on moving in with Carlos. I haven't had much time to ::gasp:: watch any movies or ::double gasp:: read more

 The Flame and the Arrow (1950)My day started with an impossible time block. There were so many good events happening at the same time and it was difficult to chose. It came down to one person: Gordon Gebert, the child star of one of my all-time favorite movies of all time, Holiday Affair (1949 read more

Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950 by Mark A. Vieira 336 pages - 9780762455232 May 2016 Running Press and TCM Amazon - Barnes and Noble - Powell's “When I walk onto a set, I never have the slightest idea what I’m going to shoot. Then I sit in a chair for a few minu read more

Larry Edmund's Bookshop Display Every year Jeff and his team at Larry Edmund's Bookshop host a special Sunday morning book event during the TCM Classic Film Festival. Previous special guests included Carl Reiner, Tippi Hedren, Illeana Douglas and more. I've always wanted to go to these but had nev read more

I have been overwhelmed lately with too much to do and too little time to do it in. Or so I thought...I haven't been very efficient lately in many aspects of my life. When I do get free time, I tend to squander it away instead of using it to be productive. This has interfered with my movie watching read more

 This year's virtual TCM Classic Film Festival kicks off with some special presentations including the late night premiere of Doctor X (1932), recently restored by UCLA Film and Television Archive and The Film Foundation in association with Warner Bros. Entertainment. Doctor X was the first of read more