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Turner Classic Movies, Warner Bros. and NCM Fathom have joined in celebration of Casablanca as it turns 70 with Turner Classic Movies Presents the Casablanca 70th Anniversary Event. On Wednesday, March 21, at 7:00 pm (local time), the film that topped the AFI's list of the "100 Greatest Love Stories read more

A dança não pode parar O musical é um gênero cinematográfico sem meio-termo: ou você ama ou odeia. A cantoria e as longas sequências de dança que surgem do nada não agradam a todos. Para os fãs mais apressadinhos, mesmo a dança em excesso cansa. Essa é uma seleção de números musicais read more

Betty's "Around the World" dinner With many thanks to veteran cookbook author Judy Gelman and SmartPop/BenBella books, Eve's Reel Life will give away a copy of Gelman's new book (co-authored with Peter Zheutlin), The Unofficial Man Men Cookbook: Inside the Kitchens, Bars and Restaurants of Mad Men. read more

Betty's "Around the World" dinner With many thanks to veteran cookbook author Judy Gelman and SmartPop/BenBella books, Eve's Reel Life will give away a copy of Gelman's new book (co-authored with Peter Zheutlin), The Unofficial Man Men Cookbook: Inside the Kitchens, Bars and Restaurants of Mad Men. read more

Sans Soleil This blog was consumed by Vertigo all through January and half of February. I thought I'd moved on, was looking forward to Mad Men on Sunday nights - and then I opened the March issue of TCM's Now Playing guide. One of my Vertigo guest bloggers, Dan Auiler, author of the definiti read more

Sans Soleil This blog was consumed by Vertigo all through January and half of February. I thought I'd moved on, was looking forward to Mad Men on Sunday nights - and then I opened the March issue of TCM's Now Playing guide. One of my Vertigo guest bloggers, Dan Auiler, author of the definiti read more

AMC’s Mad Men begins its much-anticipated fifth season on Sunday night, March 25, after a long and, for some of us, parched nearly two year hiatus. This means that Sunday night will once more be Mad Men night in my world. At last. But I’m not alone in my joy, and a few blogger friends h read more

AMC’s Mad Men begins its much-anticipated fifth season on Sunday night, March 25, after a long and, for some of us, parched nearly two year hiatus. This means that Sunday night will once more be Mad Men night in my world. At last. But I’m not alone in my joy, and a few blogger friends h read more

Noir City X, San Francisco January was a busy, busy month in my reel and real lives this year, but I still managed to squeeze in one night of lust and murder thanks to Noir City X, San Francisco's 10th annual film noir festival, a ten day event that ran from the 20th through 29th. Noir City, pres read more

Kingdom Come (DC/Aspect)      Since Superman has appeared in practically every possible medium from radio programs to pajama sets, it should be no surprise that he also has a strong presence in song, although the extent of that presence is probably underestimated by most, even by read more

Noir City X, San Francisco January was a busy, busy month in my reel and real lives this year, but I still managed to squeeze in one night of lust and murder thanks to Noir City X, San Francisco's 10th annual film noir festival, a ten day event that ran from the 20th through 29th. Noir City, pres read more

A Word About Meryl Streep Labels: Meryl Streep, Thoughts and Musings A critic for Entertainment Weekly magazine stated in an article that Meryl Streep is obviously the best actress alive today. I beg to differ. Are we really going to pass over Maggie read more

Kingdom Come (DC/Aspect)      Since Superman has appeared in practically every possible medium from radio programs to pajama sets, it should be no surprise that he also has a strong presence in song, although the extent of that presence is probably underestimated by most, even by read more

Vida de Cachorro / A Dog’s Life (1918) Muito antes de Rin-Tin-Tin, Skippy (ou melhor, Asta) e Lassie, houve um cãozinho que dividiu a tela com um grande astro, chegando até mesmo a roubar a cena. Em um dos primeiros filmes que têm num animal parte importante da trama, Charles Chaplin read more

by The Lady Eve It was 1948 in post-war France when mystery writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac met for the first time at an awards ceremony for the Prix du Roman d'Aventures, a literary award for crime fiction. Narcejac received the prize that year and Boileau had taken the honor ten read more

by The Lady Eve It was 1948 in post-war France when mystery writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac met for the first time at an awards ceremony for the Prix du Roman d'Aventures, a literary award for crime fiction. Narcejac received the prize that year and Boileau had taken the honor ten read more

Peter Breck1929-2012Nothing beats a Nick Barkley fight! On The Big Valley, actor Peter Breck gave us Nick Barkley. Nick the hot-headed. Nick the hard-headed. Nick the fighter. Nick would fight with anybody and everybody. He might take on a whole saloon or maybe even a whole town - single hande read more

William A. Wellman: um realizador obscurecido A década de 1930 fiou muito mais marcada pelo nome de grandes produtores que de grandes diretores. Os estúdios controlavam toda a produção e eram aqueles que davam carta branca a um filme que escreveram seus nomes na História, a exemplo de David read more

Whaddya know?  Someone out there likes me!  Elena at Gifts and Dreams has honored Cinematic Catharsis with the Liebster Blog Award!  So, what’s the Liebster Blog Award?  It’s an award bestowed by bloggers to give special recognition to notable blogs with fewer than 20 read more

by guest contributor Joel Gunz Practically every frame of every movie Alfred Hitchcock made could be blown up and hung on a museum wall. He had such a clear sense of composition that you can turn off the sound, forget the story and set your DVD player to slo-mo, letting the images parade by.* read more