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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: It’s Always Fair Weather read more

Above is Carole Lombard "singing" in the 1933 Columbia film "Brief Moment"; I put quotation marks around the word because she was dubbed on screen. But Lombard was among several blonde icons whose images influenced a flaxen-haired musical goddess of several decades later.It's Debbie Harry of Blondie read more

I would rather exhaustedly write this blog post than watch another episode of “Becker.” I still swear it gets good, but it’s rather rough going. Ken Levine wrote about it and Ken Levine’s solid on his sitcoms. Old time blog reading. I think a lot about The News Blog, which was a thing back in read more

The film begins with that old storytelling standard, Once upon a time in sunny California…and it’s raining outside. Not a minute has gone by and the tone of the picture has already been set with this opening taste of irony. It unravels on a smaller, less grandiose scale than other Sirk read more

We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie Noah Isenberg W. W. Norton & Company, 2017 Few films have won the unanimous acclaim of the classic to end all classics Casablanca (1942). While the World War II era romantic drama has had read more

Whether you’ve watched it once or countless times there’s no getting Casablanca out of your blood. “As Time Goes By,” the La Marseillaise sequence, Bogie and Bergman, Casablanca is the film that cemented the Hollywood style, creating a wealth of imitators for decades to come. read more

Does it sometimes seem as if Carole Lombard's best films often are overshadowed by contemporary rivals? For example, "Twentieth Century" (above), her breakthrough movie, is a comedy classic, but it tends to be ignored in favor of its far more popular Columbia stablemate, "It Happened One Night." Sim read more

Does it sometimes seem as if Carole Lombard's best films often are overshadowed by contemporary rivals? For example, "Twentieth Century" (above), her breakthrough movie, is a comedy classic, but it tends to be ignored in favor of its far more popular Columbia stablemate, "It Happened One Night." Sim read more

Celebrating a Classic among Classics! “We’ll Always Have Casablanca” Book Giveaway In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Casablanca’s premiere, we are thrilled to say that we’ll be giving away TEN COPIES of “We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legen read more

Sullivan’s Travels: “There’s always a girl in the picture” The posters for Sullivan’s Travelsemphasize “The Girl.” Preston Sturges was one writer-director who could make fun of the American public and their conventions without insulting them. Even wh read more

Something I’ve always noticed… On June 14, 2016June 14, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized I’ve always thought Gloria Grahame and 80s pop star Kirsty McColl looked sooo similar! It’s probably even more obvious when you watch McColl read more

It’s Always Fair Weather Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green 1955/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer First viewing/Netflix rental I could not get too excited about this musical.  On the other hand, it may be the only place where you can watch Gene Kelly dan read more

This is my contribution to the Remembering Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon, being organised by Crystal at The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood. Please do visit and look at the other pieces about one of the all-time greatest film stars. It’s a black and white film full of shadows, with Barbara Sta read more

Colleen Gray October 23, 1922 - August 3, 2015 Film fans are mourning the loss of lovely Colleen Gray, star of classic film-noir such as Nightmare Alley, Kiss of Death, Kansas City Confidential and The Killing.  Westerns like the revered Red River, and the less revered Town Tamer, Black Whi read more

While going through some stuff looking for some other stuff, I came across a historic find--my attempt to list all the movies I had seen at a theater during the late 80s and the early 90s. Each time I would go see a movie, I would write down the title, the exact date I had seen it, and a rating from read more

NOTE: This film was viewed for the Barbara Stanwyck Filmography Project. I’m watching (or re-watching) and reviewing every Barbara Stanwyck film! For more posts in this series, visit the Listography page. WARNING: This review contains spoilers. (Image via Greenbriar Picture Shows) Twelve years read more

Feb 20 Posted by aaronwest Over the last month or so, I have tackled the terrific Criterion box set, Les Blank: Always for Pleasure. It consists of fourteen main features, countless supplements, and various other short films. It is a treasure of riches, as Blank takes us through Cajun country, up t read more

Feb 20 Posted by aaronwest Over the last month or so, I have tackled the terrific Criterion box set, Les Blank: Always for Pleasure. It consists of fourteen main features, countless supplements, and various other short films. It is a treasure of riches, as Blank takes us through Cajun country, up t read more

Feb 20 Posted by aaronwest Over the last month or so, I have tackled the terrific Criterion box set, Les Blank: Always for Pleasure. It consists of fourteen main features, countless supplements, and various other short films. It is a treasure of riches, as Blank takes us through Cajun country, up t read more

Feb 17 Posted by aaronwest GAP-TOOTHED WOMEN, LES BLANK, 1987 Again, we have a Les Blank topic that comes completely out of left field. Who would dream of filming a movie about something as minute as a slight wedge in between someone’s mouth? Les Blank was that man, and based on what other topics read more