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Creepy Kids: Don’t Turn Your Backs On ‘em
As Halloween week begins, horror fans look forward to an array of scary movies offered by cable television networks who promise marathons of new favorites and familiar classics. TCM joins this week’s...
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To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
Late last month, on the outrage machine known as Twitter, Variety tweeted the following: “Most films and TV shows are now available online legally, says a new study”. As with most provocative...
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Love the Genre, Avoid the Movies
Whenever someone asks me “What’s your favorite genre,” it seems like an odd question. It seems odd because my favorite genres often don’t match up with my favorite movies. The movies I consider...
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Halloween Viewing Recommendations with a Feminine Touch
Halloween is fast approaching and tonight TCM is starting the party early with a batch of great haunted house films beginning at 5PM PST (8PM EST) followed by a 24-hour classic horror movie marathon...
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Mask up for Halloween!
There’s something about slipping on a mask that changes a person, something in the blood, something that reacts to a race memory of ritual, to a time when we were all more personally connected to this...
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Elevator to the Eyes of Jeanne Moreau
I had intended to post this back during TCM’s tribute to Jeanne Moreau but I got distracted and ran something else that week instead. Then I happened to re-watch Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows...
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KING BROTHERS KRAZY
I really wish I knew French. I say that because I’m in possession of the Blu-ray box set of Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950), which is basically a hard-cover book with over 200 pages of essays,...
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A Forgotten Film to Remember: The Most Dangerous Game
In David Fincher’s Zodiac, the protagonist Robert Graysmith discovers that some of the letters written by the infamous Zodiac killer contain partial quotes from the 1932 film The Most Dangerous Game....
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The Hunted: Rituals (1977)
Though Halloween has passed, it is still possible to watch horror movies. It’s quite pleasant, too, not being harangued about the best one “you’ve never seen” every other mouse click. I celebrated...
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Lights, Camera, Action… Dramatic Interlude
The Most Dangerous Game airs today on TCM and the 1932 action/adventure movie stands in sharp contrast to another action movie I recently watched, though not for the reasons one might suppose. That...
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Mind Over Matter: THE SORCERERS (1967)
Since Michael Reeves unfortunate death in 1969 at the age of 25, the British director’s life has become the stuff of cinematic legend. His reputation as a sort of Byronic hero who challenged the...
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This week on TCM Underground: Bloody Birthday (1981)
TCM Underground, Saturday November 8th, 2014: BLOODY BIRTHDAY (1981), 11:30pm PST/2:30am EST. Directed by Ed Hunt. Cast: Lori Lethin, Julie Brown, Jose Ferrer, Susan Strasberg, Elizabeth Hoy, Billy...
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Comedians in cars, getting French-style coffee
Jacques Tati’s Trafic is a comedy gem that tends to get lost in the shuffle. Setting aside the tendency for this thing to be mistaken for a similarly titled but completely unrelated drama a about drug...
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Flimsy Plot? Who Cares?
Shall We Dance is the morning movie today at TCM and if you go to the website’s schedule listing, you will find, as on practically all movies showing on TCM, a short blurb from the staff of Leonard...
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Valentino’s Starmaking Role in ‘The Sheik’
As part of TCM’s series Silent Stars, Rudolph Valentino sets the small screen on fire tonight with his star-making performance in The Sheik (1921). Though Valentino had created a stir when he danced...
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Boob Tube: UHF (1989)
UHF was released to apoplectic critics and an apathetic public on July 21st, 1989. Its opening weekend box office put it in eleventh place, behind the nearly month-old run of Weekend at Bernie’s. It...
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“Quiet on the Set and… PANIC!”
This month at TCM is doing things a little differently with its Star of the Month. Instead of one, it’s selected Silent Stars as the Star of the Month and its an honorable choice. Silent film is so...
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Artist, Activist & Star-Maker: Photographer Eliot Elisofon
Kim Novak & Eliot Elisofon (self-portrait; 1958) When I first started writing about Hollywood glamor photography here at the Movie Morlocks, one of the photographers I was particularly keen on...
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This Week on TCM Underground: IT’S A SMALL WORLD (1950)
TCM Underground, Saturday November 15th, 2014: IT’S A SMALL WORLD, 11:00pm PST/2:00am EST. Directed by William Castle. Cast: Paul Dale, Lorraine Miller, Will Geer, Nina Koshetz, Steve Brodie, Anne...
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Cosby, Welch, and Keitel
This is a classic movie blog, you know, so it’s supposed to be about classic movies. But there are different ways of defining “classic.” Personally I’m drawn to the definition offered up in a recent...
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