YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 21: 99 River Street (1953)

For my money, John Payne is one of the most underrated stars of the film noir era. Like his fellow noir vet Dick Powell, Payne’s earlier career consisted of a number of comedies and musicals – lightweight vehicles that seemed a perfect fit for his good looks and breezy air. But in the late 1940s... Read full article

KNX turns 99

Movies made Carole Lombard a legend, but it wasn't the only medium she made her mark in. Sometime in the 1920s, the Peters family -- Jane Alice (her birth name), brothers Frederic and Stuart, and mother Elizabeth Peters -- purchased their first radio set, and it may have resembled this mid-twenties ... Read full article

o/t: 99 MGM movies free to view

I just thought I’d pass on the news that YouTube and MGM have struck a deal to make scads of the studio’s movies free to view. You won’t find any classic noir in the bunch — at a glance, the oldest movies on the list are things like The Terminator and Rocky — but there&... Read full article

99. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

***The great movie (and other stuff) website Wonders in the Dark has just started a 100-strong countdown of science fiction movies that’ll be running for the next few months. I’ve volunteered to write a couple of the entries; my first effort appears today. While I was writing it, it stru... Read full article

She May Have 99 Problems...

...but at least this year Joan Fontaine isn't one of them. Many happy returns on her 99th to the one and only Miss Olivia de Havilland. I hope that she's up for a little celebration; Paris, after all, is lovely this time of year.... Read full article