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Ride the High Country (1962), starring Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, is one of the classic movies airing on TCM this week. This week, TCM is airing great movies from stars like John Wayne, Randolph Scott, and Olivia de Havilland. Plus, they are featuring Westerns and movies from the 1970's. So, read more

According to this story from Deadline, Paramount Pictures has just picked up the rights for a feature-film adaptation of The Saint. They (Paramount) say they are looking to take the character, whose “life” began in a series of books written by noted author Leslie Charteris  from 1928 to read more

CLASSIC SYMBIOTIC COLLABORATIONS: THE STAR – DIRECTOR BLOGATHON: I hosted my first blogathon waaay back during a cold and blizzard-y New York City weekend six months ago. As I make my way through each essay, I see that the collaborative teams chosen by these bloggers show a kind of love̷ read more

“George Sanders: Memoirs of a Professional Cad” Book Giveaway! Qualifying Entry Task for Facebook/Blog Contest Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our “George Sanders: Memoirs of a Professional Cad” Giveaway contest! This time we’ll be giving away TWO copies of read more

A História do Mundo – Parte 1 / History of the World – Part I (1981) As paródias são tão antigas quanto a própria arte. Assim que a arte séria é criada, logo depois surge a paródia. Isso não foi diferente no cinema. E, se me perguntassem quem é responsável pelas melhores read more

Creepshow is an homage to 1950s horror comic books. Director Romero and writer Stephen King go out of their way to make it feel like you’re reading one of those comics. It’s about the anticipation. The terror isn’t promised, it’s inevitable. So watching Creepshow is about wa read more

What makes In a World… work for me is a new perspective on material that could potentially be so cliche. Even when it enters long-trod territory we as an audience are able to extend grace to a film that is willing to step out there.  The film’s writer and star Lake Bell crafts a story se read more

US / 71 minutes / color / Aaron Spelling, ABC Dir: John Llewellyn Moxey Pr: Aaron Spelling Scr: Jimmy Sangster Cine: Arch Dalzell Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Parkins, Roddy McDowall, William Windom, Arthur O’Connell, Bing Russell, Dawn Frame. “Once upon a time there was a family who lived in read more

What makes In a World… work for me is a new perspective on material that could potentially be so cliche. Even when it enters long-trod territory we as an audience are able to extend grace to a film that is willing to step out there.  The film’s writer and star Lake Bell crafts a story se read more

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) is one of the classic movies airing on TCM this week. This week, TCM is airing great movies from stars like Olivia de Havilland, Nelson Eddy, and Lena Horne. Plus, they are featuring films adapted from the plays of William Shakespeare and Broadway musicals. read more

“George Sanders: Memoirs of a Professional Cad” Book Giveaway! Entry Task for Twitter Contest “At number 6 Petroffski Ostroff, to Margaret and Henry Sanders, a son of dazzling beauty and infinite charm was being born. It was I.” - George Sanders in Memoirs of a Professional Cad I am read more

Your Golden Ticket to Scrumpdiddlyumptious Fun! Thanks to our friends at Fathom Events, CMH will be giving away one fun basket full of scrumdiddlyumptious sweets and a copy of Roald Dahl’s beloved book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! For your chance to win — just follow us on Twitter @Class read more

Great directors can take a restriction like a single, confined location and turn into something especially extraordinary. Because the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Lumet and Louis Malle prove that these are not limits at all, but sources of cinematic inspiration. It what you do with that space read more

Great directors can take a restriction like a single, confined location and turn into something especially extraordinary. Because the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Lumet and Louis Malle prove that these are not limits at all, but sources of cinematic inspiration. It what you do with that space read more

A Man for All Seasons (1966), starring Robert Shaw (left) and Paul Scofield, is one of the classic movies airing on TCM this week. This week, TCM is airing great movies from stars like Errol Flynn, Jane Russell, and James Cagney. Plus, they are featuring films adapted from historical plays and B read more

Producer and director of 1944s Laura, Otto Preminger is quoted in Rudy Behlmer's Behind the Scenes regarding the casting of Clifton Webb as Waldo Lydecker: "...he (casting director LeMaire) said"  "You can't have Clifton Webb for this part.  He flies."  I said:  "What do you m read more

From the late 1920s onward, Carole Lombard was noted for her sharp sense of story -- although as far as I know, Lombard herself never attempted to write a screenplay. (Had that infamous automobile accident that prematurely ended her tenure at Fox been even slightly more career, dooming her career as read more

From the late 1920s onward, Carole Lombard was noted for her sharp sense of story -- although as far as I know, Lombard herself never attempted to write a screenplay. (Had that infamous automobile accident that prematurely ended her tenure at Fox been even slightly more severe, thus dooming her care read more

After I shared my post on DIE! DIE! MY DARLING! with the "Hammer Films NOT Horror" Facebook group, the administrator, Paul Meadez, asked if I would be interested in writing about another film on the Mill Creek Hammer DVD set--NEVER TAKE CANDY FROM A STRANGER, also known as NEVER TAKE SWEETS FROM A S read more

Classic Film Aficionados Moving Picture World, November 14, 1914 The Jefferson name had been inexorably tied to, Rip Van Winkle since the mid 1800’s, when first Joseph Jefferson III who appeared in a different version (playing the role for fourteen years[1]) to his son’s and grandson’s production read more