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This fall, the media is a top-trending topic (surprising in a season when we’ve lost Jon Stewart’s acerbic touch): Ted Cruz won applause for attacking the media, Spotlight accolades for celebrating them. For the second year in a row, news-centered movies have garnered Oscar buzz; this y read more

If you have been reading this blog much over the years, you know that I love classic Westerns. I grew up watching them with my father and grandfather, and I've always had a nostalgic love for the Old West. You also know that I love LEGO and am an active member of a large LEGO hobby club for adults. read more

A Princesa e o Plebeu / Roman Holiday (1953) Se você gosta de filmes antigos, já deve ter passado por esta situação: na ânsia de compartilhar sua paixão com as pessoas ao seu redor, recebeu como resposta uma careta e a recusa veemente de parar para ver um filme “velho”, em preto read more

There are times while I’m researching these posts that I am completely caught off guard by something that will turn up. That’s what happened while I was looking for information for today’s post on Dan Rowan and Dick Martin’s Laugh-In. As a matter of fact, it happened twice. L read more

  First Merriwell Story, April 18, 1896   The Preface: Our story begins in 1971 in Hilversum, Netherlands, a city about twenty-miles south-east of Amsterdam; a municipality of less 100,000. Hilversum is often referred to as “media city,” because it is the principal capital of radio and read more

  First Merriwell Story, April 18, 1896   The Preface: Our story begins in 1971 in Hilversum, Netherlands, a city about twenty-miles south-east of Amsterdam; a municipality of less 100,000. Hilversum is often referred to as “media city,” because it is the principal capital of radio and read more

  First Merriwell Story, April 18, 1896   The Preface: Our story begins in 1971 in Hilversum, Netherlands, a city about twenty-miles south-east of Amsterdam; a municipality of less 100,000. Hilversum is often referred to as “media city,” because it is the principal capital of radio and read more

Mae West in a publicity photo for “Go West Young Man” (1936) Mae West, known for her buxom figure, long Gibson-girl like gowns and sultry voice, slinked through 1930s films throwing around phrases like “Why don’t you come up and see me sometime?” But after only 10 film read more

Taryn Power and I “Hometowns to Hollywood” has been a labor of love for me since May 2013. Through this blog, I have been able to learn about some of my favorite Golden Age cinema stars in the most active way possible—this, of course, being walking in their footsteps, tracing their roots in their read more

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) starring Donna Reed, James Stewart, and Karolyn Grimes is one of the classic Christmas movies airing on television this week. Fire up your DVRs and pop some popcorn because it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on American television. This week brings a bounty read more

I’m Sabrina, because she is the smart one. She is also the only one with any real clothes. It is true that the whole set up of the “Charlie’s Angels” show is a bit patronizing. The title itself suggests these women are Charlie’s personal Playboy bunnies. But th read more

To say that I am not a fan of Black Friday could really be the definition of the word “understatement”. I’m not going to get into all the reasons for that here, because if you feel the same way I do, then you already understand most of them, and if you’re a huge fan of the da read more

MeTV is unwrapping a Holiday Season’s worth of Classic TV Christmas favorites and the Classic TV Blog Association is hosting a Very Merry MeTV Blogathon to celebrate! My entry to the blogathon is dedicated to a charmer, if I do say so myself, the Christmas episode from the first season of read more

I hope you hear a "call to arms" from that special someone of this Thanksgiving day here in the U.S., just as Carole Lombard did here with Fred MacMurray in this still from "Swing High, Swing Low." And I wish all of you a wonderful holiday.Now, a few more pics: read more

I hope you hear a "call to arms" from that special someone on this Thanksgiving day here in the U.S., just as Carole Lombard did here with Fred MacMurray in this still from "Swing High, Swing Low." And I wish all of you a wonderful holiday.Now, a few more pics: read more

Yasujiro Ozu has the esteem of being christened “The Most Japanese Filmmaker.” It’s certainly a high honor, but at first it can feel rather counter-intuitive, because after all such a great master of cinema cannot be considered a composite or even representative of Japanese film hi read more

Classic Movies and More… Well, as some of my close friends may already know, I’ve been busy for quite some time working on a project with friends and fellow film fans, Citizen Screen and Rob Medaska. That said, since this is Thanksgiving time — and because I am very thankful for th read more

Music Review : Corrections House – Know How To Carry a Whip (2015, Neurot) Formed of Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza), Mike IX Williams (Eyehategod), Sanford Parker (Minsk) and Seward Fairbury, Corrections House is the cohesive collaboration of those great minds in the ma read more

Yasujiro Ozu has the esteem of being christened “The Most Japanese Filmmaker.” It’s certainly a high honor, but at first it can feel rather counter-intuitive, because after all such a great master of cinema cannot be considered a composite or even representative of Japanese film hi read more

I can't be completely certain I've never seen this image of Carole Lombard before -- but if I have, I can't place it. This looks to have been taken about 1934 or 1935, and I emphasize the word "taken" because the seller makes no claim this is an original photograph. It's "professioal lab quality on read more