Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 4, 2019

UK / 76 minutes / color / 2X, ITC, ABC Dir: David Greene Pr: Julian Wintle, Lou Morheim Scr: Barry Oringer, David Greene Story: Lou Morheim, Barry Shear (creators) Cine: Tony Richmond Cast: Bette Davis, Robert Wagner, Denholm Elliott, Gordon Jackson, Dudley Sutton, Catherine Schell, Pik-Sen Lim, Ala   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on December 18, 2018

A while ago I came across  yet another biography of Humphrey Bogart titled TOUGH WITHOUT A GUN: THE LIFE AND THE EXTRAORDINARY AFTER LIFE OF HUMPHREY BOGART by Stefan Kanfer. It is a slim volume by Bogart biography standards clocking in at a mere 320 pages compared with others on...   read more

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Kim Luperi on December 1, 2018

The Puzzling Sin of Nora Moran The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), Sin Takes a Holiday (1930), The Sin Ship (1931) — pre-Code debauchery can be hard to keep straight — and I’m just referring to these sinful titles right now. That said, I could’ve sworn I’d seen The Sin...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on August 21, 2018

STARDUST AND SHADOWS is meandering down Pre code street Theater district as  we cruise in with to look at First National film  THEY CALL IT  SIN (1932).  Has to be one of the best lurid titles for a picture along with the Burt Lancaster 1948  Film Noir  KISS THE BLOOD...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on April 18, 2018

It’s hard to have worse written characters than dialogue. Like, how can character motivation be worse than what the characters speak to show their motivation. The Sin of Nora Moran shows what it’s like to have worse characterizations than dialogue. It’s not pretty. What’s sort of frustrating is the   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on September 27, 2017

"If you hear the word that ties you to another human being, do not listen to any others that follow - they are merely its echo." - St. Catherine of Siena Director Robert Bresson's first feature film, the outstanding underrated gem Les Anges du Peche aka Angels of Sin, explores...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on September 1, 2017

The Seventh Sin has three problems. The first is the third act; it’s too rushed. Given the constraints of the film production–a shot-in-Hollywood production about a cholera outbreak in a rural Chinese town–there’s not so much to be done about it. The film has a limited cast, especially once the...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on May 16, 2016

Following the release of Lizzie (1957) and The Woman in White (1948) earlier this spring, Warner Archive continues to feed my Eleanor Parker lady crush with another pair of new releases featuring the actress. This time around, she travels to exotic locations in The Seventh Sin (1957) and Valley of...   read more

Stardust and Shadows Posted by Terry on April 14, 2014

The next day at the festival was a hot as the weather yet still pretty cool for stuff to do. You have to make some choices in these things and sometime you guess wrong. Robert Osbourne gave us the anecdote that for years he had pushed the network to aquire...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on March 6, 2014

I found the first Sin City to be a quirky, highly stylized little thriller, though I also know quite a few people who didn’t like it for the exact same reasons I did. Either way, if this trailer is any indication, you’ll already know whether you want to spend more...   read more

Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on February 28, 2013

One of the many posters for Sin City (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Let’s start today with what, in some ways, may be one of the most interesting looks at how movies are being made today. Of course, we all know that much of what we actually see in the final product...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on November 12, 2012

The film Sin Nombre opens up seeming promising enough. It tells the bound to collide tales of Casper (Edgar Flores) and new La Mara recruit Smiley (Kristian Ferrer) and a group of Honduran refugees featuring Sayra (Paulina Gaitan). With these two seemingly unrelated situations colliding and heading   read more

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on July 24, 2012

I’m reviewing all five films in the Forbidden Hollywood volume two box set:  Review of Night Nurse Thou Shalt Not is a 2008 TCM documentary and DVD supplement on the Forbidden Hollywood volume two collection.  I don’t generally watch DVD features, especially not on movies I rent consider   read more

Noir and Chick Flicks Posted by Dawn on April 20, 2011

They Call It A Sin(1932). Cast: Loretta Young, George Brent and Una Merkel. Traveling salesman Jimmy Decker falls in love with Marion Cullen, even though he is engaged to Enid Hollister, his boss's daughter. Marion is a talented composer, after a confrontation with her foster mother, who tells h   read more