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Midsummer Reading Suggestions
It’s that time again. Time for my semi-annual list of summer reading suggestions! If you’re a film fan looking for something interesting to read during a long flight, while you’re lounging on the...
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Double the Fun, Double the Murder, Double the Indemnity!
This Sunday, if you haven’t already seen it on the big screen, TCM and Fathom Events will be partnering yet again to show Double Indemnity on the big screen around the country (check this page from...
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Guest post: How to Solve a Problem Like Maria
In case you missed the listings, TCM is screening Fritz Lang’s Metropolis this week—and users of the splendid TCM smartphone app can stream it at their leisure. I have a very fond spot for this film,...
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Famous, Favorite, Best: My Personal Picks
Tonight on TCM, Metropolis airs, the 1926 science fiction classic from world-renowned director Fritz Lang. It’s probably his single most famous film. It’s been released so many times, with so many...
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Hollywood Geography
A Lady Without Passport, which aired last Friday on TCM as part of the Summer of Darkness series, takes place in Havana during the postwar era. Hedy Lamarr stars as a Viennese woman adrift in Cuba...
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Gone Fishin’
At the moment I am enjoying a scenic vacation in Portland, Maine, so won’t be able to contribute my usual film-related gibberish. Instead I’ll be spending time in John Ford’s hometown, where, though...
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This week on TCM Underground: Vanishing Point (1971) and Greased Lightning...
It’s appropriate that TCM Underground is showing VANISHING POINT (1970) this week, as vanish is what TCMU is about to do… to make room for Summer Under the Stars. Hey, we love Summer Under the Stars...
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Q&A: Michael Kronenberg From the Film Noir Foundation
NOIR CITY cover designs by Michael Kronenberg TCM’s Summer of Darkness is almost over but before Friday night’s Film Noir programming comes to an end I decided to contact artist and designer, Michael...
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Readers’ Choice: The Actors, Their Favorite and Best
Last week I did a post on directors and which movies were their most famous, my favorite, and best. In this installment, the second “Readers’ Choice” post I’ve done (here’s the first), I’m taking the...
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Miracle Mile
A very long time ago, back in the Reagan Administration when I was a pimply high school nerd, my friend Andrew Chilton and I were comparing notes on movies we’d seen recently we recommended to each...
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Break on Through to the Other Side
If you stay up past midnight tonight, TCM will be screening an influential supernatural film about a violent alcoholic who at one point will grab an ax to splinter down a door behind which can be...
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My Treasures from the Dream Factory
TCM joins with Bonham’s auction house to present “Treasures from the Dream Factory,” a selection of high-profile movie memorabilia to be sold this November. This is the third year for the event, which...
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Ugly American: Run of the Arrow (1957)
In the summer of 1956, Sam Fuller took a 50% stake in Globe Enterprises, an independent production company that would strike deals with RKO, Twentieth-Century Fox, and Columbia for financing and...
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Shock Cinema #48 reviewed!
Now that TCM Underground is taking a little summer break, I finally have a chance to get around to my mail. The latest issue of Shock Cinema dropped in over the transom so long ago, it seems to me,...
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Birdwatching in Bodega Bay
My better half and I just celebrated our wedding anniversary by taking a leisurely road trip through the Sonoma backwoods and along the California Coast. On our return, we decided to make a stop in...
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Suddenly: The Assassin’s Game
This morning on TCM, Suddenly, the 1954 thriller starring Sterling Hayden and Frank Sinatra, aired and if you didn’t see it, you missed a good one. The story is of an assassination attempt on the...
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Ernst Lubitsch Forgives Himself
If you were so inclined, you could convincingly argue that Ernst Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait is a representative example of its time: a costume drama that luxuriates in period detail (playing to the...
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Costuming Sci-Fi Adventure, Old School
Tonight TCM airs one of my favorite films of all time, The Adventures of Robin Hood, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighly, and starring Errol Flynn in the role that truly cemented his status...
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Adolphe Menjou: From Valentino to Kubrick
Today, the films of Adolphe Menjou are highlighted as part TCM’s Summer Under the Stars. Classic movie lovers know Menjou as the dapper, erudite gent with the cane, hat, and waxed mustache. In...
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Hyper Hypochondira: Feel My Pulse (1928)
Bebe Daniels was a born performer. She debuted on film at the age of nine as Dorothy Gale in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910, a Selig Polyscope short), and went on to a long and varied career, from...
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