The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 29, 2016

There’s a strange effectiveness to The Ewok Adventure during Burl Ives’s narration. With his voice, with the lameness of the script, Ewok Adventure feels like a storybook come to life. Much of the movie is exquisitely produced, whether Peter Bernstein’s score, director Korty&#8217   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on March 2, 2016

vt The Wayne Murder Case US / 60 minutes / bw / Chadwick, Monogram Dir: Phil Whitman Pr: I.E. Chadwick Scr: Lee Chadwick, Hampton Del Ruth Story: Arthur Hoerl Cine: Leon Shamroy Cast: Regis Toomey, June Clyde, Lucille La Verne, Jason Robards Sr, William V. Mong, Eddie Phillips, Dwight Frye,...   read more

Serendipitous Anachronisms Posted by Summer Reeves on January 7, 2016

Simone in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) #FranceOnFilm Blogathon 07 Thursday Jan 2016 Posted by Summer Reeves in 1980s, Blogathon, Camp/Kitsch, Cinema, Comedy, France, Romance ≈ 8 Comments Tags#FranceonFilm, 1980s, Blogath   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on November 26, 2014

This week’s video is another one from the archives. It’s the full-length episode of Ellery Queen known as “The Adventure of Caesar’s Last Sleep”. It first aired on March 14, 1976. It’s brought to you by the good folks at Hulu, so I apologize in advance for the ads   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on October 20, 2014

Our week begins with another look at the Ellery Queen episode “The Adventure of Caesar’s Last Sleep,” first airing on March 14, 1976. Rent-a-hit-man Bonner is on the phone clearing up some details with his latest client. Also seen in this episode (no scenes with Timothy, unfortuna   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 9, 2014

What you see above is the opening of the format that I remember for Disney’s weekly showcase. Yeah, we’re once again tripping back to that mythical pre-cable time, a time when The Disney Channel would have been… well, I started to say it would have been but a gleam in...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on October 9, 2014

What you see above is the opening of the format that I remember for Disney’s weekly showcase. Yeah, we’re once again tripping back to that mythical pre-cable time, a time when The Disney Channel would have been… well, I started to say it would have been but a gleam in...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on August 4, 2014

About halfway through Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the film becomes truly excellent. Dimwitted metal heads Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves have successfully brought historical figures to the present and loosed them on the modern world–the mall. That sequence of the film, along wit   read more

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on June 16, 2014

The first--and best--of the 1970s "disaster movies," The Poseidon Adventure has aged well over the years. I sometimes think it gets lumped in with its disaster brethren--The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, etc.--which is a shame, because Poseidon is a superior film that established the formula for tho   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on June 9, 2014

Let’s kick off the week with another look at Bonner, the dapper freelance hit man of the Ellery Queen episode “The Adventure of Caesar’s Last Sleep”. It was first broadcast on March 14, 1976. Is it just me, or does Timothy very much look like Christopher Lee in this shot?...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on April 29, 2014

Hey folks, the blog will be going on hiatus for the next week while I take a short vacation. In the meantime, I urge you to check out the latest issue of Classic Images (May 2014 No. 467), where you’ll find this screen cap from Waterhole #3 (1967) accompanying a...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on October 16, 2013

Our video for this week is the full-length episode of Ellery Queen, “The Adventure of Caesar’s Last Sleep”. It was first broadcast on March 14, 1976. It’s presented by the good folks at Hulu, so I apologize in advance for the ads. Timothy mostly skulks around throwing dynamit   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on September 19, 2013

Better late than never for today’s pic, which is another from the Ellery Queen episode “The Adventure of Caesar’s Last Sleep”. It was first broadcast on March 14, 1976. Timothy gets to skulk around as snazzily dressed freelance hit man Jay Bonner. He also played a bad guy na   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on August 7, 2013

Okay, yeah, the official title is Thor: The Dark World. But at this point it’s almost become Loki 2, hasn’t it? http://youtu.be/xphJMM1ipJo Yeah, there’s lots to like all the way around in that trailer. Of course, there’s Chris Hemsworth being Thor, and there’s more of   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on August 7, 2013

Okay, yeah, the official title is Thor: The Dark World. But at this point it’s almost become Loki 2, hasn’t it? http://youtu.be/xphJMM1ipJo Yeah, there’s lots to like all the way around in that trailer. Of course, there’s Chris Hemsworth being Thor, and there’s more of   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on August 1, 2013

The Elephants of Shanghai Stephen Jared Solstice Publishing, 2013 Actor/writer Stephen Jared has long been a friend of Classic Movies. His fiction debut, the rousing adventure story Jack and the Jungle Lion, was one of the first books I reviewed for the blog. Stephen has also distinguished himself   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on July 11, 2013

Introduction Last year the character of Tarzan celebrated his 100th year in print. A serialized version of the story first appeared in 1912. A hardcover collection of Tarzan of the Apes first appeared in 1914. Being in the middle of the Tarzan centennial period it’s an opportune time to (re)visit...   read more

Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on July 11, 2013

You probably thought I was going to pick something from Douglas Fairbanks. To be honest, I thought I would be choosing a Douglas Fairbanks film too. So why did I choose Scaramouche? Its story really pulls the viewer in, for starters. (I really value that aspect of movie watching, as...   read more

The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on April 6, 2013

Twenty years ago, Jurassic Park was first released to theaters and I was a kid crazy about dinosaurs.  However, heeding a warning from my aunt who said it was “too scary for kids,” my parents did not take me to see it.  I remember this being a very big deal...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on February 12, 2013

We continue our death scene theme with “The Adventure of Caesar’s Last Sleep,” the episode of the short-lived Ellery Queen detective series that first aired on March 14, 1976. Timothy’s hired hit man Jay Bonner bites the dust, but not before declaring his innocence in the dea   read more