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Apr 14 Posted by aaronwest The best way to establish the nature of The Blob is with a song. This little ditty by a young Burt Bacharach is the first impression of the franchise, playing over the opening credits. Unlike the chilling horror scores for filmmakers like Hitchcock, Argento, or Carpenter, read more

Apr 14 Posted by aaronwest The best way to establish the nature of The Blob is with a song. This little ditty by a young Burt Bacharach is the first impression of the franchise, playing over the opening credits. Unlike the chilling horror scores for filmmakers like Hitchcock, Argento, or Carpenter, read more

Two vintage Paramount-era Kodak nitrate negatives of Carole Lombard from the 1930s are up for auction at Heritage Auctions this week. Both are 7.75" x 9.75" and are part of Sunday's Internet Movie Poster Auction (OK, so neither are posters -- we don't need to get technical). The one above is p1202-4 read more

I figure I’d start you off with this nice 40-second clip I took at the 2012 TCM Film Festival: …because it’s going to get pretty bad girl, pretty fast. All this week the bad, the ugly and the dastardly will be featured in this year’s Great Villain Blogathon hosted by Kristi read more

Two vintage Paramount-era Kodak nitrate negatives of Carole Lombard from the 1930s are up for auction at Heritage Auctions this week. Both are 7.75" x 9.75" and are part of Sunday's Internet Movie Poster Auction (OK, so neither are posters -- we don't need to get technical). The one above is p1202-4 read more

CLOSING NIGHT I wind up this year’s 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival by seeing two of Hollywood’s biggest stars in person, confirming once and for all, in my mind…they actually EXIST. And I also got to hang out at a pretty cool after-party. The first movie I ever saw with a bunch of kids, ( read more

Today, Shadows and Satin remembers the life of noir veteran Ted deCorsia, who passed 42 years ago on this date, April 11th. Graced with one of screendom’s most menacing visages, Ted deCorsia was a natural for the gritty, realistic characters that were a staple of the film noir era. A performer from read more

This week's song is A Couple of Swells performed by Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in Easter Parade (1948). Judy Garland and Fred Astaire's comic number, A Couple of Swells, is one of the highlights of Easter Parade, but composer Irving Berlin had a different number in mind for this scene. Ea read more

Above is one of my very favorite Carole Lombard photographs, taken in 1939 or 1940 near the Encino ranch she shared with second husband Clark Gable. The joy on her face is simply spellbinding, a sign all is right with her world.Today, I share that sort of feeling, because I'm reaching a milestone. T read more

…When you’re showing classic films! THE MOVIES I can’t tell you how many times I bolted through those doors like a kid in a candy store ( or is that a bull in a China shop? ) I would look for my theatre and the line I should wait on for my next movie experience. I once got there b read more

This week's pick is the Tudor classic A Man for All Seasons (1966), starring Robert Shaw as Henry VIII and Paul Scofield as Thomas More. The scandalous lives and loves of the turbulent Tudor dynasty  attracted their fair share of old Hollywood adaptations, from the great Charles Laughton ha read more

Above is one of my very favorite Carole Lombard photographs, taken in 1939 or 1940 near the Encino ranch she shared with second husband Clark Gable. The joy on her face is simply spellbinding, a sign all is right with her world.Today, I share that sort of feeling, because I'm reaching a milestone. T read more

Happy Easter Here are some silent film stars who are breaking out of their shells to celebrate Easter and welcome springtime. A short more recent video is in the middle. Bessie Love is carried away by Easter Bunnies 1929 May Allison 1919Blonde blue-eyed screen star half of famous Hollywood ro read more

Even though it's technically not of "Carole Lombard" at all, but her Czech alter ego of sorts, "Carola Lombardova." It's said to be 8 x 11 cm, which would make it 3.15" x 4.33" -- far smaller than the image you see on your desktop. (And no, I haven't the faintest clue what the "96" in the lower righ read more

Happy Easter to one and all! The night is over, the sun is tall. The day did break with a tiny beam And flooded life with Light supreme. ― Paul F. Kortepeter, Holly Pond Hill: A Child’s Book of Easter ◊ From March 24, 1951 an Easter episode of ‘My Favorite Husband’ starring Lucil read more

Even though it's technically not of "Carole Lombard" at all, but her Czech alter ego of sorts, "Carola Lombardova." It's said to be 8 x 11 cm, which would make it 3.15" x 4.33" -- far smaller than the image you see on your desktop. (And no, I haven't the faintest clue what the "96" in the lower righ read more

Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival was in full swing March 26 – 29. Classic film fans from all around the country and the world ( Europe and Australia are representin’ ) came to laugh, cry, marvel, be surprised, hook-up and bond over the smorgasbord of films TCM has put on this year’s read more

It's been said this was the last photo ever taken of Carole Lombard -- and if so, it's appropriately with her mother, Elizabeth Peters, perhaps the most important influence in her life. This was taken on the evening of Jan. 15, 1942 following a war bond rally at Cadle Tabernacle in Indianapolis; rou read more

It's been said this was the last photo ever taken of Carole Lombard -- and if so, it's appropriately with her mother, Elizabeth Peters, perhaps the most important influence in her life. This was taken on the evening of Jan. 15, 1942 following a war bond rally at Cadle Tabernacle in Indianapolis; rou read more

We don't know whether Carole Lombard saw this sublime publicity portrait for "To Be Or Not To Be" in finished form before she left Los Angeles for that fateful eastward journey on Jan. 12, 1942. To call it "exquisite" would be an understatement; its elegance conveys a new approach for Lombard, perha read more