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Calling All Romantics… A Mystery from the 1939 World’s Fair, Solved! (Well, Mostly)
Recently I stumbled onto a haunting old mystery I just had to share with my hopelessly romantic classic movie family. In one of the few real bookstores left in New York, I was riffling through boxes of old postcards, looking for any from the 1939 World’s Fair, which I’m mildly obsessed with. I found one …
STREAMING SATURDAYS! Peter Cushing in CASH ON DEMAND, the Christmas Sleeper You Didn’t Know You Needed
Welcome to another edition of STREAMING SATURDAYS, where we bring you free, fabulous films to watch right here! Imagine if Ebenezer Scrooge were scared straight not by four ghosts but by a criminal mastermind who utterly beguiled Bob Cratchit. That’s pretty much the set-up in CASH ON DEMAND, a woefully overlooked Hammer classic from 1961. Two …
STREAMING SATURDAYS! Noir Drops the Hammer in HELL IS A CITY
Welcome to another edition of Streaming Saturdays, where we embed a free, fun movie for you to watch right here! From 1960, it’s HELL IS A CITY, directed by Val Guest, who also adapted the screenplay from Maurice Procter’s novel of the same name. Blurring the line between noir and the burgeoning British New Wave, the …
For Donna Hill, With Love and Gratitude
On the last Friday of the year, Donna Hill said goodnight to her beloved William, who may have been right there beside her, or maybe he was in his little heated bed, or in the velvet wingchair with the brocade pillow, in the living room lined with lovingly framed posters and portraits of stars gone …
Can We Save TCM? Will This Movie Have a Happy Ending?
You head outside on a winter’s day with 90 percent of your body covered, but suddenly it’s 20 percent. Think you’d notice? You were making $90,000 a year yesterday but $20,000 a year today. Think you’d notice? Your bathroom was 90 square feet yesterday but 20 square feet today. Think you’d notice? And yet Warner …
The Buster Keaton Biopic Starring Rami Malek: All the Latest from the Man Who Wrote the Source Material!
Buster Keaton fans waited decades for the definitive biography of their silent hero, James Curtis’s bestselling Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life, which was recently named Book of the Year in a readers’ poll conducted by Silent London. But the biopic based on the book is moving along much faster, thanks in part to the passion …
It’s Christmas in July! Cool Off with Frederic March and Basil Rathbone in Several Takes on the Dickens Classic
If you knew there was a 1954 version of A Christmas Carol starring Frederic March and Basil Rathbone, you’re a better man than I am, Tiny Tim. Originally presented by Chrysler’s Shower of Stars, this was the first color adaptation (though a black and white Kinescope is all we have left) and also the first …
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