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This just in from Michelle Morgan:"The books have arrived in the warehouse and publisher's office! This means that UK bookshops will start to receive them very soon. Overseas fans can still order them though, from Amazon and The Book Depository, etc. Happy Birthday to Carole, and Happy Publication d read more

This just in from Michelle Morgan:"The books have arrived in the warehouse and publisher's office! This means that UK bookshops will start to receive them very soon. Overseas fans can still order them though, from Amazon and The Book Depository, etc. Happy Birthday to Carole, and Happy Publication d read more

The Creature Walks Among Us is a surprising disappointment. It never has potential exactly, but it does have something. Arthur A. Ross’s script is rather good for this production. Right off, Ross has decent science dialogue. His character interactions are good. And then it’s clear the c read more

Back in February of 2015, I wrote a post on The Notorious Landlady, an underrated comedy from Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon in celebration of their birthdays. I was relatively pleased with the post and it seemed to get a good amount of page views, but then, just a few days over the one-year mark, I noti read more

Today is Katharine Hepburn’s birthday (May 12) and we have an excellent line-up of posts from across the classic film blogosphere devoted to the life and films of this magnificent actress. A big thank you to everyone who has signed up to participate in this blogathon. Your enthusiasm for this read more

In its hundred minute run time, Heaven Help Us does a number of things well. It’s beautifully edited, photographed, directed, acted. Charles Purpura’s screenplay offers a number of fantastic scenes, which director Dinner does a great job with. Overall, however, the screenplay is where t read more

I was so impatient for this event to finally start! But after almost 3 months of patience, it’s finally here! The Golden Boy Blogathon: A William Holden Celebration is the occasion for us, bloggers, to honour this wonderful actor who would have been 98 on April 17, 2016. The events starts tod read more

What you make of The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) probably depends on how you feel about 1950s B horror and science fiction as well as the iconic monster himself. The third and final Gill Man picture revises the formula established in Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) with a couple of odd twis read more

What you make of The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) probably depends on how you feel about 1950s B horror and science fiction as well as the iconic monster himself. The third and final Gill Man picture revises the formula established in Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) with a couple of odd twis read more

All the President’s Men is an important film to me as it’s one of the first “serious films” I remember renting as a young teen, when more and more catalogue titles became available on VHS during the ascension of the home video market in the 1980s.  That film is the reason read more

The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999) Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result. This poetic tale o read more

Laugh, Clown, Laugh (and also freak us out a little.) June 18, 2015June 18, 2015 / The Cinema Dilettante Laugh, Clown, Laugh Poster (WikiMedia) As I gloated in a previous post, I was able to attend a rare screening of the silent 1928 Lon Chaney film Laugh, Clown, read more

Four TCM Fans to Share their Favorite Films with us on TCM Saturday April 11! Another exciting day for TCM fans… As a follow-up to their November salute to Fan Favorite Films, TCM will be airing their latest “Fan Favorites” programming today.  That said, Ben Mankiewicz will be video chatting read more

For many folks, including myself, Jon Stewart‘s The Daily Show is just that – a daily dose of laughter and news parody which I do my best not to miss. Of course, the recent news of his imminent departure from the show has a lot of people guessing not just what’s next for him, but w read more

Murderers Among Us (“Die Mörder sind unter uns” Directed by Wolfgang Staudte Written by Wolfgang Staudte 1946/Germany Deutsche Film First viewing/Netflix rental This is a good, but not great, exploration of how various Berliners cope with their wartime experiences in the rubble of the read more

The Children Are Watching Us (“I bambini ci guardano”) Directed by Vittorio De Sica Written by Cesare Giulio Viola, Vittorio De Sica et al 1944/Italy Invicta Film/Scalera Film S.p.a. First viewing/Netflix rental   Vittorio De Sica makes a sad and beautiful film about how parents can read more

Four Very Special TCM Fans to Share Favorite ‘Holiday’ Films with us on TCM, the Saturday after Thanksgiving! How exciting is this?!?!? On November 29th, TCM will be kicking off a new segment called “Fan Favorites” in which Ben Mankiewicz will be video chatting with four pass read more

Once again, Carole Lombard shows off her agricultural side in Paramount p1202-1688 from 1937, but if you think you can milk this picture, boy, have you got a surprise. That's because the bovine with her is masculine, not feminine:History has not recorded the ultimate fate of "True Confession" the bu read more

By Fritzi Kramer on November 2, 2014 in Blog, GIF, Humor People do not clap nearly enough today. Let me rephrase. They clap at concerts or at that stupid team-building retreat they have to go on or at a play but they do not clap to summon their minions or as a signal to begin a fiendish plan of mur read more

Thanks to Tally Haugen for uncovering that image, as high-hat as we'll ever see Carole Lombard. (Was she channeling her inner Margaret Dumont?) Don't know anything more about it; most likely it was Carole having some fun during a photo shoot and the session photographer decided to capitalize on the read more