Welcome to BlogHub: the Best in Veteran and Emerging Classic Movie Blogs
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
My First Summer of Cinema - 1988
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jul 18, 2017
George Romero's death this week has left me feeling nostalgic about the first time I saw Night of the Living Dead (1968), which was also the first time I heard of Romero, saw a zombie film, and found out that movies were something people could take seriously and discuss as forms of art. Almost thirt read more
My First Summer of Cinema - 1988
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jul 18, 2017
George Romero's death this week has left me feeling nostalgic about the first time I saw Night of the Living Dead (1968), which was also the first time I heard of Romero, saw a zombie film, and found out that movies were something people could take seriously and discuss as forms of art. Almost thirt read more
Making a Hollywood House in Alabama: Movie Posters and Art
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jul 16, 2017
Errol Flynn is in the bedroom, of course.
As part of an ongoing effort to make our house a more interesting and personally relevant space (as opposed to a collection of things other people chose for us or handed down), I finally got frames for the posters I bought at Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Los A read more
Making a Hollywood House in Alabama: Movie Posters and Art
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jul 16, 2017
Errol Flynn is in the bedroom, of course.
As part of an ongoing effort to make our house a more interesting and personally relevant space (as opposed to a collection of things other people chose for us or handed down), I finally got frames for the posters I bought at Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Los A read more
12 Mummy Movies Worth Watching
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jun 12, 2017
At an abysmal 17 %, the Rotten Tomatoes rating of the new version of The Mummy (2017) might have you hiding in your sarcophagus instead of rushing to the theater, but, luckily for mummy lovers, Hollywood has produced plenty of better pictures in the genre. You can save your dollars for another round read more
12 Mummy Movies Worth Watching
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jun 12, 2017
At an abysmal 17 %, the Rotten Tomatoes rating of the new version of The Mummy (2017) might have you hiding in your sarcophagus instead of rushing to the theater, but, luckily for mummy lovers, Hollywood has produced plenty of better pictures in the genre. You can save your dollars for another round read more
Orry-Kelly and WOMEN HE'S UNDRESSED (2015)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on May 29, 2017
Gillian Armstrong's 2015 documentary film about Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly is currently streaming on Netflix, and it offers an intriguing look at the life of the three time Oscar winner, who dressed stars as iconic and diverse as Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe, and Natalie Wo read more
Orry-Kelly and WOMEN HE'S UNDRESSED (2015)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on May 29, 2017
Gillian Armstrong's 2015 documentary film about Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly is currently streaming on Netflix, and it offers an intriguing look at the life of the three time Oscar winner, who dressed stars as iconic and diverse as Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe, and Natalie Wo read more
Cult Classics: PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Apr 28, 2017
Phantom of the Paradise (1974) is Brian de Palma's musical cult tribute to a number of iconic horror tales, most notably The Phantom of the Opera and Faust, although it also functions as a scathing satire of the music industry and its obsession with sex, fame, and eternal youth. As both writer and d read more
Cult Classics: PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Apr 28, 2017
Phantom of the Paradise (1974) is Brian de Palma's musical cult tribute to a number of iconic horror tales, most notably The Phantom of the Opera and Faust, although it also functions as a scathing satire of the music industry and its obsession with sex, fame, and eternal youth. As both writer and d read more
California 2017: Highlights from the Warner Bros. Studio Tour
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Apr 6, 2017
We spent spring break in Los Angeles and Anaheim this year, ostensibly to tour colleges for our teenager (whose dream school is Cal Arts). While I was once again too early to revel in the delights of the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood, I did manage to enjoy plenty of movie buff destinations, from Ho read more
California 2017: Highlights from the Warner Bros. Studio Tour
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Apr 6, 2017
We spent spring break in Los Angeles and Anaheim this year, ostensibly to tour colleges for our teenager (whose dream school is Cal Arts). While I was once again too early to revel in the delights of the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood, I did manage to enjoy plenty of movie buff destinations, from Ho read more
My Life in Films: Favorite Movies by Year
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 21, 2017
Film Twitter has prompted me to join in on the recent lists of people's favorite movies for each year of their lives. At 45, I feel like that's a lot of territory to cover, and of course a lot of the movies I watch these days came out long before I was born, but I have seen most of the big hits for read more
My Life in Films: Favorite Movies by Year
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 21, 2017
Film Twitter has prompted me to join in on the recent lists of people's favorite movies for each year of their lives. At 45, I feel like that's a lot of territory to cover, and of course a lot of the movies I watch these days came out long before I was born, but I have seen most of the big hits for read more
Classic Films in Focus: EACH DAWN I DIE (1939)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 13, 2017
As its grim title suggests, Each Dawn I Die (1939) is an explosive drama awash in death and violence, as only Warner Brothers' 1930s gangster and prison films could deliver them. William Keighley directs the parade of brutal injustice with James Cagney and George Raft as the chief victims of a horri read more
Classic Films in Focus: EACH DAWN I DIE (1939)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 13, 2017
As its grim title suggests, Each Dawn I Die (1939) is an explosive drama awash in death and violence, as only Warner Brothers' 1930s gangster and prison films could deliver them. William Keighley directs the parade of brutal injustice with James Cagney and George Raft as the chief victims of a horri read more
Reel Resistance: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 27, 2017
When it comes to movies that deliver on vicarious Nazi punching, it's hard to beat the original Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). The third installment of the trilogy is good for that, too, but the 1981 picture features all the adventure of a classic serial and all the patriotic ve read more
Reel Resistance: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 27, 2017
When it comes to movies that deliver on vicarious Nazi punching, it's hard to beat the original Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). The third installment of the trilogy is good for that, too, but the 1981 picture features all the adventure of a classic serial and all the patriotic ve read more
Classic Films in Focus: LISA AND THE DEVIL (1973)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 23, 2017
Lisa and the Devil (1973) is certainly one of the weirder Mario Bava films, and with Bava that's saying something, given that the Italian auteur made horror pictures like Kill, Baby, Kill (1966) and Baron Blood (1972). This darkly dreamy meditation on death struggled to find a distributor and ended read more
Classic Films in Focus: LISA AND THE DEVIL (1973)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 23, 2017
Lisa and the Devil (1973) is certainly one of the weirder Mario Bava films, and with Bava that's saying something, given that the Italian auteur made horror pictures like Kill, Baby, Kill (1966) and Baron Blood (1972). This darkly dreamy meditation on death struggled to find a distributor and ended read more