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Five Favorite Films: Christmas Movies
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 9, 2021
Every Christmas brings new holiday movies, especially with streaming services like Netflix cooking up batches of them like trays of cinematic sugar cookies, but the classics are those we return to year after year. They become beloved traditions in many families, and ours is no different. I know ther read more
Five Favorite Films: Marvel Movies
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 18, 2021
Recently I've seen both of the newest MCU movies, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) and The Eternals (2021), and that inspired me to reflect on the MCU pictures as a group and my favorites among them. There are already more than 25 movies to choose from, not including the Disney Plus read more
Killing Bill: Female Vengeance in THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (1962)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 25, 2021
Long before Uma Thurman's relentless Bride swore to kill Bill in the Quentin Tarantino movies, Jan in the Pan killed her own treacherous Bill in the low-budget horror classic, The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962). Despite its B-horror status and sleazy male gaze, The Brain That Wouldn't Die turns out read more
Five Favorite Directors: Classic Horror
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 18, 2021
Even people who don't care for classic horror movies have probably heard of Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Vincent Price, but behind every horror classic there's also a director asking for heavier fog, more menacing closeups, and louder screams. Alfred Hitchcock, although not primarily a horror dir read more
Five Favorite Films: Halloween Treats
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 8, 2021
Halloween is my favorite holiday, even though I'm too old for trick-or-treating and don't have a little one now to take around the neighborhood. It's an especially good time of year to revisit the movie monsters and film phantoms of Golden Age Hollywood, but there's a lot more to enjoy than the obvi read more
Five Favorite Films: Bette Davis
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Sep 20, 2021
It's really difficult for me to pick only five films for Bette Davis. She's one of my favorite stars, and her career spanned decades, with juicy, memorable roles from her early years right up to her death in 1989 at the age of 81. She was nominated for 11 Best Actress Oscars and won twice, first for read more
Five Favorite Films: Val Lewton
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Sep 16, 2021
I wouldn't normally think about making a five favorite films list for a producer, but Val Lewton is special. Born Vladimir Leventon in what is now Ukraine, Lewton headed the horror unit for RKO in the 1940s and made brilliant, moody horror pictures on shoestring budgets. He eschewed gimmicks and gor read more
Five Favorite Films: Leslie Howard
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Sep 9, 2021
English actor Leslie Howard is best remembered today for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind (1939), but Howard himself was not a fan of the part or his own casting in it. He said of the role, "I hate the damn part. I'm not nearly beautiful or young enough for Ashley, and it makes me sic read more
A Tallulah Tribute in CRUELLA (2021)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Sep 7, 2021
We finally got to watch Disney's latest entry in the live action treatments of 101 Dalmatians characters, which this time moves the focus off the dogs entirely and charts the early misadventures of its title anti-heroine, Cruella de Vil. Early reviews of Cruella (2021) were mixed enough that we chos read more
Classic Films in Focus: THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE (1958)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Apr 30, 2021
What happens when a modern American girl enters the London debutante season? That's the question posed by The Reluctant Debutante (1958), a romantic comedy from director Vincente Minnelli with more than a few outdated notions hiding under the hem of its ballgown. Set during the final year of the old read more
Classic Movie Stars on THE MUPPET SHOW
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 17, 2021
Thanks to Disney Plus, viewers can finally enjoy all five seasons of The Muppet Show, and at my house we've been delighted to have access to the long-awaited fourth and fifth seasons, which were never available on DVD. The release has created some controversy about Disney's decision to include conte read more
Classic Films in Focus: THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1934)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 19, 2021
Adapted from the thrilling tales penned by Baroness Orczy in the first years of the twentieth century, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) is an essential part of the swashbuckler genre even though it's not exactly an action picture. Instead, Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon, its stars, are primarily involve read more
Classic Films in Focus: THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS (1960)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 11, 2021
The notorious Edinburgh murderers Burke and Hare supplied the insatiable cadaver market with "made to order" corpses in the early 19th century, and they've been nightmare fuel for popular culture ever since, with multiple horror films revisiting their crimes. Among these is The Flesh and the Fiends read more
2020 Movie Log in Review
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 29, 2021
As we all know, 2020 was a year unlike any other. With the pandemic raging and constant political crises unfolding, we needed movies to comfort us more than ever but couldn't leave the house to enjoy them. My 2020 movie log reflects the fact that I usually had company on the couch and that our colle read more
2020, The Year Without Movies
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Jan 26, 2021
2020 - a year of masks, not movies.The last movie I saw in a theater was Onward back in March of 2020. It was spring break for my college freshman, who had brought a friend home for the holiday, and that week we were also finally closing on the sale of our old house, six months after moving into our read more
Classic Films in Focus: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 23, 2020
I'm generally a fan of adaptations of Charles Dickens' holiday standard, even the loose and the weird ones, but the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol from MGM strikes me as a bowdlerized, lightweight entry into the category, pleasant enough but not really willing to get to the heart of the sto read more
Classic Films in Focus: BARBARELLA (1968)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Dec 16, 2020
I have frequently declared my affection for movies that are more entertaining than they are good, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that I enjoy the bizarre spectacle of Barbarella (1968) even if it makes no effort to make any sense. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by Roger Vadim, this ada read more
Classic Films in Focus: SABRINA (1954)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 23, 2020
After her breakout success in Roman Holiday (1953), Audrey Hepburn cemented her image as a charming romantic heroine with Sabrina (1954), in which she plays a beautiful ingenue who pines for affection from a wealthy, older man. Along with its love story, Sabrina offers a very tame exploration of ups read more
Classic Films in Focus: THAT TOUCH OF MINK (1962)
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 21, 2020
It's hard to imagine a more charming duo than Cary Grant and Doris Day, and That Touch of Mink (1962) is a perfectly entertaining example of their respective talents in the romantic comedy genre, even if both stars made more memorable outings in other pictures. Director Delbert Mann's comedy o read more
Classic Movies on CBS All Access
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 18, 2020
We picked up CBS All Access to watch the new Star Trek shows, which are worth the price of the service by themselves, but I've been pleasantly surprised by the classic movie offerings in their library. Streaming services have not generally been interested in the classic film audience, and those that read more