Welcome to BlogHub: the Best in Veteran and Emerging Classic Movie Blogs
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
12345678910

Great Femme Fatales: Amy of Gone Girl

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Aug 8, 2024

Join us for our final femme fatale of the season: Amy from Gone Girl! read more

Glenn Close’s Most Stunning Role

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jul 25, 2024

Episode 2 of the femme fatales season of Nobody Knows Anything is up!! Dangerous Liaisons, a film that pits the dueling wits of Glenn Close and John Malkovitch against each other in a fight over love and power . . . . and also, Keanu Reeves is there, being strangely perfect in eighteenth-century dre read more

Chatting about Leave Her to Heaven

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jul 11, 2024

My new podcast season on femme fatales with Brian Wilkins and Michael Gutierrez releases today, and we begin with one of my favorite films, Leave Her to Heaven. We chat about the strange canoe launch that begins the film, Tierney’s impossible beauty, the unfathomable hero–who wanted to m read more

Femme Fatales Podcast Series….

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jul 1, 2024

Nobody Knows Anything, returning soon! read more

Van Heflin’s Surprising First Role

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on May 19, 2024

The first time you see Van Heflin (Lord Gerald Waring Gaythorne) in A Woman Rebels (1936), his debut role, you do a double take. I had to look closer, to make sure it was indeed Van Heflin and not Leslie Howard. A word I never thought I’d apply to him is slight. He’s quite slender in it read more

Oscar Tribute: The Noms They Got Right

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Mar 10, 2024

I’ve ranted about the films I didn’t watch–and didn’t want to–but three of the films nominated for Oscars this year are great films. NO spoilers. American Fiction. Clever, funny, and original, this satire/dramedy delivers genuine laughs while also addressing heartbreak. read more

Oscar Rant, Part 3: Flower Moon’s Many Missteps

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Mar 4, 2024

Spoilers–but not as many as Scorsese’s I knew I would struggle to warm to Martin Scorsese’s interpretation of a well-loved book. Killers of the Flower Moon is a heartbreaking, fascinating page turner. And it is a history book. I stayed up till 4 am to finish it. What I didn’t read more

Oscar Rant, Part II: Barbie

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Feb 26, 2024

I walked into Barbie with sky-high expectations. I had been tracking the career of its co-screenwriter (and Greta Gerwig’s spouse) Noah Baumbach since 1995’s Kicking and Screaming played on my VCR in college. My roommates and I–and my sister–had fallen deeply and completely i read more

My Oscar Rant, Part 1: Snark

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Feb 19, 2024

It’s that time again–my chance to rant about the films that shouldn’t have been nominated and moan about better films that weren’t. Next time, I’ll discuss Oscar nominees I loved or at least liked. But for this post, I’m going to embrace the snark. Past Lives. If read more

The 10 Funniest Xmas Movies

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Dec 22, 2023

In no particular order except for #1, my favorite to rewatch: 1. The Ref (1994). The non-sentimental xmas movie I love most. The real question is who is the funniest here: Denis Leary, who has taken a family hostage? Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey, as The War-of-the-Roses-worthy combatants who make us read more

The Charming Shop Around the Corner

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Dec 14, 2023

Last month, I wrote about Jimmy Stewart playing a monster in Vertigo. It seems only fair that I cover one of his gentlest roles next, that of lovelorn salesman Alfred Kralik in holiday favorite The Shop Around the Corner (1940). For those unfamiliar with the film, it was later remade as the horrible read more

Vertigo’s Beast: Jimmy Stewart (1958)

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Nov 6, 2023

Spoilers abound. I love a good casting against type. That’s why Scottie in Vertigo is so disarming: It’s creepy to find America’s aw-shucks sweetheart, Jimmy Stewart, playing a villain. Of course, not all of Stewart’s parts are sugary; he was a murderer in The Thin Man series. He was a professor read more

Casting The Thin Man Remake

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Oct 16, 2023

Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie are discussing a remake of The Thin Man, which has its longtime fans abuzz. While many ingredients are essential to an effective remake, the most important step is to take inspiration from the original pairing–cast the unexpected. After all, William Powell and Myrna read more

The File on Thelma Jordan

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Oct 6, 2023

The File on Thelma Jordan isn’t a noir of same caliber as Barbara Stanwyck’s more famous films. It’s not Double Indemnity, or Sorry, Wrong Number or even The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. But with Stanwyck as a femme fatale, you know you’re going to enjoy yourself. ***Slight read more

Burning (2018): Eerie Film Noir

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Sep 25, 2023

Burning (2018) is the kind of film that rides on a great premise: Guy meets and falls for elusive girl. He loses elusive girl to rich guy. Elusive girl disappears. Is she just following her elusive nature, or did rich guy do her in? None of the characters but the rich guy–Ben (Steven Yeun)R read more

Bergman’s Weird Wife in Stromboli

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Aug 28, 2023

I’ve always been curious about the film that united director Roberto Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman in their illicit romance. How red-hot would an affair have to be to lead to a public censure in the US Senate and a six-year ostracism from Hollywood? I was prepared for something akin t read more

The Stunning Talent in Stormy Weather (1943)

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Aug 13, 2023

How ridiculous is the amount of talent in Stormy Weather (1943)? You’ve got Fats Waller and Ada Brown performing “That Ain’t Right,” a scene that obviously inspired Aretha Franklin’s “Think” in The Blues Brothers (1980). My favorite lines in a hilarious ca read more

The 8 Movie Characters I’d Bring to See Barbie

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Aug 6, 2023

If I could bring any film characters with me to the Barbie movie, this crew would come along. We would shout, complain, and advise (quite loudly), and so an empty theater–and an earlier viewing by me–would be critical. But just try to imagine with me, how perfect this party would be̷ read more

The Prowler (1951): a Jealous Husband Film Noir

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jul 25, 2023

Most film noirs are cautionary as well as bad luck tales. But there’s a particular type that seems to be created by untrusting husbands and wives, the “you’ll be sorry if you cheat” noir. The most memorable for many of us are Fatal Attraction (1987) for the disloyal husband, read more

My Cat, Mae West, and Sextette

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on May 25, 2023

Perhaps you’re choosing to honor your cat by naming her after Mae West. (And can there be a greater honor?) You can’t go with Mae. It’s too delicate. And you can’t go with Mae West. Too hard to say when your cat is jumping on the counter. But you have to name her for Mae Wes read more
12345678910