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This is Paramount p1202-374a, Carole Lombard from 1932. Pretty sultry, eh?Now imagine it blown up to poster size. Well, the good news is you don't have to imagine, because this enlarged image actually exists.This, measuring an eye-popping 24" x 36", was created in 1987 to promote a volume of classic read more

A Look at the Atlanta Better Films Committee I spend many a Tuesday evening buried in the Motion Picture Association of America Production Code Administration (PCA) records housed at the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills. My first exposure to these gems took place in 2007 when I read more

It’s fascinating how history works. Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland came up at the same time. In their day, stars were groomed from an early age and MGM had both the starlets under contract. But instead of holding onto both talents it turned out that Garland remained and Durbin signed a new ag read more

A genuinely astonishing piece of work. For much of the time I was reading it I thought it was one for the ages, the best book I’d read this year and perhaps for several years; but a number of niggles built up toward the end, and then finally a true howler meant it was knocked from the pedesta read more

Robert Lansing as Gary Seven. While on a Federation time travel mission to conduct research about Earth in 1968, the Enterprise crew inadvertently intercepts a transporter beam. Their newest passenger appears to be human and calls himself Gary Seven (Robert Lansing). He claims that he is a hum read more

La Nuit américaine (Day for Night) is one of those films I watched during the first years of my cinematic exploration. I remember liking back then but when I saw it for the second time years after, at the Outremont Theatre in Montreal, my reaction to it was completely different. I the right way. I read more

It’d be nice if A Quiet Place were exasperating. If, after seventy or eighty minutes of building tension, the finale somehow disappointed. It doesn’t. It’s not exactly predictable, but by the time it arrives, it’s been obvious for a while the movie’s not really going anywhere. The film’s read more

My journey through the Arrow Sartana Blu-ray box set continues with the fourth entry in the "official" series, HAVE A GOOD FUNERAL MY FRIEND...SARTANA WILL PAY. This 1970 movie has Gianni Garko returning in the title role. The story opens with a gold prospector being ambushed and murdered...but Sar read more

Here we go with the match between Nat and Liz...From Here to Eternity vs The Sandpiper Which film of Natalie Wood or Elizabeth Taylor do you like more? read more

Carole Lombard's work in "Twentieth Century" opposite John Barrymore -- one of the industry's most respected actors -- would boost what was to then a somewhat middling career. In fact, Barrymore would laud Lombard when signing a photo to her:When word got around of his plaudits, the fan magazines to read more

The penultimate match between Nat and Liz. Nat has technically won this event as her record is 6-2-1 but we still have 2 matches to go to see if Liz can at least finish strong. Which film starring Natalie Wood or Liz Taylor do you like more? read more

UK / 65 minutes / bw / David Dent, Adelphi Dir: Tony Young Pr: David Dent Scr: Douglas Baber Cine: Phil Grindrod Cast: Donald Houston, Kathleen Byron, Bill Kerr, Edward Leslie, Liam Gaffney, Kenneth Henry, Felix Felton, Sheila McCormack, Christopher Quest, Michael Voysey, Vincent Holman, Meadows Whi read more

What can you say about a TV show that dies after just one episode? We can think of a few things. Here’s a look at some of the most notorious examples, including a show that forced Jackie Gleason to apologize to America, a “Laugh-In” ripoff that was cancelled midway through its only read more

What can you say about a TV show that dies after just one episode? We can think of a few things. Here’s a look at some of the most notorious examples, including a show that forced Jackie Gleason to apologize to America, a “Laugh-In” ripoff that was cancelled midway through its only read more

Hello everybody! It’s been some time now since I’ve been considering hosting a blogathon honouring Dolores Hart. Those who have been following my blog since the beginning know it’s not the first time I talk about her. Dolores Hart’s story is a unique one in the Hollywood his read more

Here we go with match 9 of 11. Natalie leads 5-2-1. Which film starring Natalie Wood or Elizabeth Taylor do you like more? read more

Before Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone made his name with spaghetti westerns, he began his career taking a stab at the sword and sandal genre with The Colossus of Rhodes. It is astonishing that the director’s first credited directing job is an epic-sized production like this one. While he did h read more

At the beginning of 1939, Carole Lombard was effectively a car stopped at a red light, awaiting the signal to turn green so she could marry Clark Gable. While she waited, a publication I heretofore hadn't heard of ran a two-page pictorial of her.I don't know anything about a magazine called Glamour read more

The third entry in the Arrow Sartana Blu-ray box set is the the 1970 film SARTANA'S HERE...TRADE YOUR PISTOL FOR A COFFIN. Uruguayan actor George Hilton plays Sartana in this one instead of Gianni Garko. This movie is even wilder than the preceding titles in the series, with a number of action gags read more

English lawyer Nick Platt, working in Moscow during the early years of this century as a facilitator for western bank loans to dubious Russian projects, rather thrives in the cutthroat, amoral society he finds there. One day he encounters two sisters, Masha and Katya, and soon convinces himself he read more