Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 6, 2019

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: The Student...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on February 26, 2017

With the summer 1982 release of The Thing, John Carpenter finally fully arrived in Hollywood; he’d made a studio picture. And he didn’t come alone. He brought cinematographer Dean Cundey, who shot all of he and Debra Hill’s films, and at least three from Escape from New York: editor Todd...   read more

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

She Damned Near Ran the StudioThe Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Kovermanby Jacqueline R. BraitmanUniversity Press of MississippiHardcover ISBN: 9781496806192352 pagesOctober 2020Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Larry Edmunds Bookshop"Koverman was a magnetic, centrifugal force; a powerful dark   read more

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

She Damned Near Ran the StudioThe Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Kovermanby Jacqueline R. BraitmanUniversity Press of MississippiHardcover ISBN: 9781496806192352 pagesOctober 2020Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Larry Edmunds Bookshop"Koverman was a magnetic, centrifugal force; a powerful dark   read more