Neighbors (1920, Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)

I’m not sure what the best thing is about Neighbors. There’s the comic pacing, there’s the comic acrobatics, there’s the story, there’s the acting. Co-directors Keaton and Cline quickly introduce this fantastic setup–Romeo and Juliet across a fence in an alley and... Read full article

Carole, plus Carroll's neighbors

We know Carole Lombard (with Clark Gable) was at the Dec. 26, 1938 premiere of the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset Boulevard, and we know she was among the celebrities whose oversized signatures were on concrete slabs that hung from the theater wall......but did you ever wonder which other celebritie... Read full article

The First Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon: Neighbors (1920)

You have to love a blogathon that is billed as "The First Annual", especially when the subject is Buster Keaton and the host is Silent-Ology! All the fun can be found by clicking here. It ain't exactly the Montagues and the Capulets, but The Boy and The Girl in the 1920s romantic-comedy short, Nei... Read full article

Who are your neighbors?: 60 years of peeping through the “Rear Window”

Do you know your neighbors? The family with the dog that barks all night, the child who rides through your yard on his bike or the woman who sends flowers when a relative dies? Stuck in his wheelchair with a broken leg, James Stewart’s character in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” (1954) got... Read full article

NEIGHBORS Review: A Better Fence Would Have Made Better Neighbors

I give Zac Efron a lot of credit.  After a string of single-episode appearances on numerous TV shows, the talented young star made it big as Troy Bolton in Disney’s High School Musical franchise.  Since the 2008 conclusion to that trilogy, Efron has appeared in a dozen films, and his role ... Read full article