Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on December 19, 2020

Some of you likely wonder where I've been the past few days (my previous entry was Sunday night). Let me assure you nothing's happened with my health, no Covid-19 or anything to that effect. But after 13 1/2 years of running this site, taking time off only for matters such...   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on September 21, 2019

US / 74 minutes / bw / Zenith, UA Dir: Edward L. Cahn Pr: Robert E. Kent Scr: Stephen Kandel Cine: Maury Gertsman Cast: Joan Evans, Ronald Foster, Merry Anders, Harp McGuire, Robert Christopher, Berry Kroeger, Bill Couch, Norm Alden, James Callahan, J. Edward McKinley, William Fawcett, Guy Wilkerson   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on February 20, 2019

To set the scene our storytellers enlist an opening crawl that runs over the unmistakable strains of train noise. The year is 1861. The event being dramatized is the alleged Baltimore Plot and our hero is New York policeman John Kennedy (Dick Powell). Despite being common and coincidental I can&#82   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on April 2, 2018

Sadly, Johnny Duncan’s Robin is not actually a target in Target – Robin!. The chapter wouldn’t be any more compelling if he were, but it get Batman and Robin moving in a new direction. Instead, it’s more of the same. Tepid cliffhanger resolution, bad acting from Robert Lowery and Duncan,...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on September 24, 2017

There’s nothing spectacularly wrong with Hard Target. It’s a competently executed early nineties action movie. There’s a lot of good stunt work and some amazing pyrotechnics. Lance Henriksen is great as the villain. Wilford Brimley is in it as a Cajun assault archer. Almost everything about it is a   read more

The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on January 17, 2016

One year, one film: 1950 The film: The Tall Target, dir. Anthony Mann starring Dick Powell and Paula Raymond Rating: Recommended | Highly Recommended | MUST-SEE (Image via Caftan Woman)A soon-to-be-President, a suspicious cop, an assassination plot: these are the key elements of the tale told by The   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on April 7, 2015

Today we take another look at “Cold Target,” the episode of The New Mike Hammer that first aired on December 1, 1984. Timothy appears in his only recurring role on a television series, that of reformed criminal Kenny the Knife. Kenny first showed up, much to Hammer’s (Stacy Keach)   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on October 8, 2014

Music Review : Voivod – Target Earth (2013) In french there’s a saying that : Nul n’est prophète en son pays. It could be translated to nobody is a prophet in his own country. Exactly the case for Voivod that has its origins in the Province of Québec. They always...   read more

Caftan Woman Posted by Caftan Woman on July 17, 2010

Director Anthony Mann (1906 - 1967) left movie fans many quality motion pictures to enjoy and discover. Among his titles are the best of film noir (Raw Deal, He Walked by Night), groundbreaking adult westerns (Winchester '73, Devil's Doorway) and epics (El Cid, The Fall of the Roman Empire). 1951   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on November 30, -0001

The Tall Target (1951) is a historical detective story based on the disputed Baltimore Plot; a conspiracy to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln on his scheduled train stop in Baltimore, Maryland. The year is 1861 and President Lincoln was on a whistle stop tour that would take him to Washin   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on November 30, -0001

Carlos went to Target some weeks back and saw that they were carrying several DVD boxed sets at $9.99. These were 75th Anniversary 20th Century Fox Studio Classics sets. A great deal. You get 4 movies for $10.00. That's only $2.50 a movie. And it's much less expensive than investing...   read more