Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on April 6, 2022

Whew! What a year. What? It’s only April? How can that be? It’s been quite an eventful time, so far, and its only bound to get busier as the months progress. Between work, personal obligations, and all the recent blog activity, it’s all been a bit much, and I need...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on April 2, 2022

Since it is the beginning of April - and we just began the spring season - it seems an appropriate time to begin a new series here on Silver Scenes. This is a fun one called Film Albums where we will introduce a different film or television-related album dating from...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 22, 2022

With time it’s become more and more ironic that Blow-up, the film having become synonymous with the Swinging London scene of the 1960s, came from two Italians: Carlo Ponti and Michelangelo Antonioni. In the picture, Antonioni casts David Hemmings as a kind of snarky, scruffy hero of the Londo   read more

Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on March 19, 2022

Publisher: University of California Press Release Date: January11, 2022 Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger “the first true Hitchcock movie,” and yet the story of how The Lodger came to be made is shrouded in myth, often repeated and much embellished (especially by Hitchcock himself). “The First Tru   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on March 16, 2022

What can you say about a TV show that dies after just one episode? We can think of a few things. Here’s a look at some of the most notorious examples, including a show that forced Jackie Gleason to apologize to America, a “Laugh-In” ripoff that was cancelled midway through...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 15, 2022

My only qualm with Westward The Women might be the title itself because otherwise, it’s a striking movie that should rightfully be heralded as a supremely significant western for the story it chooses to tell. At the very least, the title does make it evident that this is a story...   read more

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on March 9, 2022

As a new blogger, you often feel as if you’re just sending content into the ether, content no one will ever see or remark upon. Why do I do it? you ask yourself. After all, you get no comments. You can see from your stats that only bots have viewed...   read more

Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on March 9, 2022

As a new blogger, you often feel as if you’re just sending content into the ether, content no one will ever see or remark upon. Why do I do it? you ask yourself. After all, you get no comments. You can see from your stats that only bots have viewed...   read more

The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on March 4, 2022

Have you ever heard of the Wilhelm Scream? It’s a pre-recorded sound effect used in many films, usually to express surprise when a character falls from a great height, is shot, hurt, etc. While the scream was first used in Distant Drums (Raoul Walsh, 1951), it was named after Private...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 1, 2022

I Shot Jesse James is an off-center western as only Sam Fuller could possibly conceive it. At the very least it brings a journalistic eye and a shift in perspective. Because distilled down to its most basic elements, it’s a psychological character piece with John Ireland at the heart of...   read more

The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on February 21, 2022

Well, well, well! Are we excited, or are we not? I am because I’m thrilled to announce that the Golden Boy Blogathon, honouring the one and only William Holden, is back this year for a fifth edition! Like it was the case for the 3rd and 4th edition, I’ll be...   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on February 19, 2022

Greetings, fellow married people and others. My name is Detective Sam Wagner. My first name isn't really "Detective," ha ha! Anywho, I'm here to give you some excellent tips on how to be hitched -- and happy! First, get yourself a smoking hot wife. This is mine, so "slow your...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 17, 2022

Before there ever is an incident to speak of in Larry Peerce’s film, we open on the lowest scum of the streets, played by Martin Sheen and Tom Musante, shooting pool and kicking up any trouble they can manage. Between catcalling after women and ambushing pedestrians for 8 lousy bucks,...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Toni Ruberto on February 12, 2022

With its thick legs, protective scales, spiked back and laser-sharp teeth, the 200-foot-long fictional Rhedosaurus is a terrifying creature. As the title character of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), it carries one of the most entertaining and important films in horror/sci-fi history. How   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on February 9, 2022

On Wednesday, January 28, 1948, the Mutual Network radio show "Queen for a Day" came to Louisville for a live broadcast, setting up shop in what is now Louisville Gardens for a broadcast over station WGRC, which later became WAKY. On each episode, several women with hard-luck stories competed to...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 3, 2022

In the 1950s Blackboard Jungle was one of the early pivotal roles for Sidney Poitier where he plays a disaffected youth who is ultimately mentored and encouraged by his teacher: Glenn Ford. Thus, it seems fitting, at the height of his own powers in 1967, Poitier left the student behind...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 29, 2022

It’s a private fascination of mine to consider the sanctity and sheer awesomeness of human life in a very particular context. How parents pass on their genes — a package of habits and physical phenotypes to their kids — that we can then witness before our very eyes. And this...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 27, 2022

The Lost Patrol comes out of the colonialist traditions of the era with the white soldiers in Mesopotamia doing battle with an Arab enemy who strike like ghosts. They are phantoms and rarely seen in the flesh. It’s an unwitting bit of commentary but it also simultaneously becomes one of...   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on January 20, 2022

For almost as long as there has been broadcasting, there has been commercial sponsorship. But from the 1930s through the 1960s, sponsors had an unusual amount of power because, through advertising agencies, they owned entire blocks of time on the program schedule and produced their own shows. In thi   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on January 12, 2022

We go once more into the breach with Screen Capture Theatre and explore the 1975 film "The Hindenburg." Please fasten your seat belts and grab your sickness bags. Gutentag and welcome aboard the Hindenburg, Germany's glorious lighter-than-air craft powered solely by the bottled ecstasy of Hitle   read more