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How does a movie become a classic? A great cast, a great script, great direction, iconic scenes… But then there are the movies that achieve greatness from another direction. I’m talking about the turkeys, the cheese fests, so bad they’re good. This event is all about celebrating movies that are read more

Book Look! Hollywood Dreams Made Real: Irving Thalberg & the Rise of MGM by Mark A. Vieira Well, I'm happy to tell you all that this book is another winner from one of my favourite film authors, Mr. Mark A. Vieira. The man's only disappointed me once - please, let's not re-live that experien read more

Moments after the opening credits are done a sixteen-year-old girl steps onto the stage at Daniel Webster Junior High School. The girl’s name is Pinkie Wingate and she impresses with a beautiful rendition of James F. Hanley’s “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart.”  Dottie Wing read more

I was raised on great classics such as Casablanca and Gone with the Wind, as well as a healthy diet of musicals (Oklahoma!, White Christmas, and The Music Man to name a few). When I was twelve, I discovered a cable channel devoted to the classics, and I was determined to watch as many as I coul read more

Enter now for a chance to win Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on Blu-ray from Pretty Clever Films and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment! THE GREATEST STORY THAT SCIENCE HAS EVER TOLD COMES TO BLU-RAY AND DVD JUNE 10 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents a fantastic journey through the un read more

Enter now for a chance to win Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on Blu-ray from Pretty Clever Films and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment! THE GREATEST STORY THAT SCIENCE HAS EVER TOLD COMES TO BLU-RAY AND DVD JUNE 10 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents a fantastic journey through the un read more

The Sacrament, from director Ti West, opens at The Carlton Cinema on Friday, June 6. Enter below to win a run-of-engagement double pass to The Sacrament, courtesy of Video Services Corp! A new steam trails a man as he travels to an undisclosed location to find his missing sister. Upon entering R read more

One of the three dresses Carole Lombard is shown wearing above in her final film for Paramount, 1937's "True Confession," will be on public display soon near Columbus, Ohio, as this Saturday, the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio in Lancaster will unveil a new exhibit about the lady who designed the dr read more

Discovering the Duke one page at a time  John Wayne? Meh. And that's precisely why, ladies and gentlemen, I have decided to pick up Scott Eyman's new biography entitled John Wayne: The Life and Legend (Simon & Schuster). For years now I've shied away from watching any of the Duke's read more

In 2009, the Ontario legislature passed the Ontario Green Energy Act with the lofty goals of expanding renewable energy production, encouraging energy conservation and creating green jobs. Among many other stipulations, the GEA is known for creating a number of “feed-in” tariff rates, b read more

As a host of Turner Classic Movies, Ben Mankiewicz is accustomed to interviewing living legends. Yesterday in New York City, he turned the mic on a legend he knows better than any other: his dad, Frank Mankiewicz. “There aren’t many fathers who have started the show Morning Edition on National read more

In his 1981 history of horror fiction Danse Macabre, Stephen King dubs Thriller "probably the best horror series ever put on TV." It's still hard to argue with King's assessment. While this 1960-62 anthology series was inconsistent, it boasted some of the most chilling content ever broadcast on read more

Directed by: Frank Capra Starring: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Douglass Dumbrille, Lionel Stander I have to admit I had my qualms about going to see a movie on one of the most beautiful days of the year. Not that I wouldn't normally do that on a nice day, but this past Saturday was t read more

PA announcement:  Attention all personnel.  The exploits of the cast and crew of the 4077th are featured players on MeTV’s Summer of Me schedule! ◊   I was - in essence if not reality – staring at a blank page for a few days trying to think of what to say about M*A*S*H, one of read more

Who's that man at the table sitting next to Carole Lombard, examining a piece of paper (presumably the check)? Would you believe it's...Cary Grant?That hardly looks like the Cary we know so well, but this was only his second feature ("Sinners In The Sun"), and he doesn't have his customary look down read more

By Fritzi Kramer on June 1, 2014 in Blog, Feature, Silent Movie Review, Silents vs Talkies Pola Negri plays a hotel chambermaid who finds herself the accomplice of an Austrian officer trapped behind enemy lines. There are spies, an assassination and much skulking about the corridors of the titular read more

It’s here at last! Spies, spies and more spies! Enjoy the wonderful posts, they are sure to leave you in a sneaky mood. For your reading pleasure, I have separated the posts into fun categories. Some films fit more than one category so I did a mental coin flip to decide where they should go. read more

"Slow in takeoff and inclined to over-clinical scientific exposition, (the) action gradually hits its stride when the experiment backfires and results in giant earthquakes, tidal waves and general destruction of the world." That was Variety's assessment of Crack in the World when it was releas read more

  A Girl of the Timber Claims is another of the films that have gained the subtitle of: unknown status or lost; making itself known now, only by the gossamer threads of distant memories. The reception that Timber Claims received from the critics was mixed, while it garnered a good sized budget read more

  A Girl of the Timber Claims is another of the films that have gained the subtitle of: unknown status or lost; making itself known now, only by the gossamer threads of distant memories. The reception that Timber Claims received from the critics was mixed, while it garnered a good sized budget read more