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Rating The Star Trek Films (Part One)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day Jr. on Apr 23, 2013
The hype machine is already being cranked up for next month's debut of the new Star Trek feature from J. J. Abrams. I'm not all that particularly excited about this latest re-imagining/re-working/re-interpretation of the Star Trek Universe--but it gives me an excuse to discuss the entire Star Trek m read more
Life at the Marmont: The Inside Story of Hollywood’s Legendary Hotel of the Stars
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Apr 22, 2013
Los Angeles is commonly identified through several key locations: the Hollywood Sign, the Hollywood Bowl, etc. But one principal location that is both a representation of, and a forgotten symbol of, Hollywood is the infamous Chateau Marmont Hotel. Authors Raymond Sarlot and Fred E. Basten seek to read more
Birthday Girls: The Stars Next Door
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Dec 10, 2012
Many happy returns today to two of Hollywood's most fondly remembered ladies; neither was ever the biggest star - one a second-tier leading lady, the other a reliable character trouper - but both delighted audiences for a goodly number of years, and both seem to have been thoroughly good e read more
Birthday Girls: The Stars Next Door
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Dec 10, 2012
Many happy returns today to two of Hollywood's most fondly remembered ladies; neither was ever the biggest star - one a second-tier leading lady, the other a reliable character trouper - but both delighted audiences for a goodly number of years, and both seem to have been thoroughly good e read more
Jill and Michael Present: The 2012 TCM Summer Under the Stars Blogathon!
ScribeHard on Film Posted by ScribeHard on Jul 3, 2012
For classic movie lovers, TCM’s Summer Under the Stars is like Christmas, the Oscars, the Super Bowl, and every Hollywood red carpet gala rolled into one. For 31 days, we are treated to a collection of films featuring the stars we love, the stars we discover for the first time, or the stars we’ve read more
Michael and Jill Present: The 2012 TCM Summer Under the Stars Blogathon!
Sittin' on a Backyard Fence Posted by Jill Blake on Jul 3, 2012
For classic movie lovers, TCM’s Summer Under the Stars is like Christmas, the Oscars, the Super Bowl, and every Hollywood red carpet gala rolled into one. For 31 days, we are treated to a collection of films featuring the stars we love, the stars we discover for the first time, or the stars we’ve read more
The Star
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on May 30, 2012
The Star (1952) It is no Sunset Blvd., but Bette Davis did a fine job playing an actress gone “box office poison” who desperately seeks another part. The Star was released two years after the powerful William Holden-Gloria Swanson flick and treads along the same lines but holds read more
Cinema Style File--Style is the Star in Roman Polanski's 1974 Neo-Noir CHINATOWN
GlamAmor Posted by on Feb 7, 2012
Roman Polanski's 1974 masterpiece Chinatown will be shown at this year's TCM Classic Film Festival--Style in the Movies--as part of the 100th anniversary of Paramount Studios and Robert Evans' Paramount Renaissance. I consider Chinatown one of the ten best movies of all time, so I am abso read more
The Margaret Lockwood Blogathon: The Stars Look Down (1940)
True Classics Posted by Brandie on Sep 15, 2011
By 1940, Margaret Lockwood had become one of the most popular British actresses in film, having made a splash two years prior in The Lady Vanishes for director Alfred Hitchcock. She had tried to follow in the footsteps of fellow India-born Brit Vivien Leigh by moving to Hollywood, with the intent of read more
The Star (1952).
Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on Apr 29, 2011
The Star(1952). Directed by Stuart Heisler. Cast: Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden and Natalie Wood. Bette Davis received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
The story begins when, Oscar Award winning Margaret Elliot, a bankrupt movie star, has to sell all her beautiful possessions a read more
Saturday Newsreel: The Stars Arrive
Classic Movies Posted by KC on May 29, 2010
Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy chat with reporters as the Queen Elizabeth approaches the shores of Southampton. (I can't believe Taylor has to maintain that teeny little mustache while on vacation; what a drag.) read more
The Star Witness (1931)
Movie Classics Posted by Judy on Mar 7, 2010
Just when I was starting to think that every William Wellman pre-Code was a masterpiece, I came across one that I don’t like quite so much. For me the uneasy blend of comedy and melodrama in The Star Witness, starring Walter Huston, doesn’t quite work, although I still found it interesti read more