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Makeup vs. Acting
The recent gangster biopic Black Mass stars Johnny Depp as real-life organized crime boss Whitey Bulger, a fixture in Boston’s criminal underworld from the 1960s through the 1990s. Depp gives an...
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The 2015 New York Film Festival
To stud its carpets with stars, the 53rd New York Film Festival has turned to the biopic. It opened with The Walk, Robert Zemeckis’ recreation of Philippe Petit’s World Trade Center tightrope walk,...
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This week on TCM Underground: Street Fighter (1974) — Viva Chiba! — and Enter...
What do Charles Bronson, Sonny Chiba, and Charles Dickens have in common? Thank you for asking! The death in 1973 of Chinese-American martial arts star Bruce Lee set Chinese and Japanese producers and...
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Fatal Charm: Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
On Monday, October 12th TCM is airing a batch of suspenseful films focusing on “Treacherous Spouses.” Most critics wouldn’t classify any of these films as horror but some of them contain genuinely...
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The Best Looking Movies Ever
Today on TCM, one of the films on the lineup is Mad Love, directed and photographed by acclaimed cinematographer Karl Freund. Well, actually, Chester Lyons and Gregg Toland photographed it under...
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If you don’t wanna know, don’t go looking
It’s not uncommon for well-established movie directors to return to the scene of the crime, as it were, and revisit old successes. The defining masterpieces of brash young artists get remixed by older...
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What Makes the Cut, and Why?
Tonight on TCM, A Star is Born airs, the 1954 Judy Garland version. It’s highly acclaimed, did well at the box office, and will probably be a hailed as a masterpiece for years to come. Eventually,...
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Fatty Arbuckle: The Life of the Party
Next Sunday, October 18, at 2:30am, TCM airs The Life of the Party starring Fatty Arbuckle. It was released in November 1920, ten months before the fateful party that ruined the comedian’s life and...
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Ship of Fools: The Long Voyage Home (1940)
From L to R around table: Thomas Mitchell, Billy Bevan, John Ford, George Schreiber, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Luis Quintanilla, Barry Fitzgerald. Behind John Ford are Joe Sawyer, Bob Perry, Jack...
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This week on TCM Underground: The Decline of Western Civilization II: The...
Banging your head against the wall for the want of quality late night entertainment? Well, bang no more… or bang on! Either way, tune in to TCM Underground this weekend for a double dose of heavy...
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The Palm Springs Classic Science Fiction & Horror Festival is alive!
Aliens! Monsters! Mutants! Throw-backs! Things! Dopplegangers! I’ll say it again… Dopplegangers! Something out-of-this-world is going to happen in the California desert! No, it’s not an invasion of...
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10 Trailblazing Horror Films Directed by Women
Pictured above: Director Wendy Toye All month long TCM has been airing films made by women on Tuesday and Thursday night as part of their groundbreaking Trailblazing Women series hosted by Illeana...
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Those Damned Kids!
Tonight, TCM does it for the kids. From The Bad Seed to Village of the Damned, TCM shows that even the kinder can get involved in the nasty business of violent intimidation, terror, and murder. Happy...
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Just Another Indie Filmmaker
Later this week, TCM is screening the 1992 indie drama Just Another Girl on the IRT. I remember very distinctly seeing this on its first run, when I was fresh faced college graduate. It’s an atypical...
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City Lights
Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, and Andrei Tarkovsky agree on something when they all cite City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931) as one of their favorite films of all time. With an eye to the fact that...
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Searching for Old Hollywood: Night Life
Regular readers of my blog posts know that I am obsessed with old-school night clubs from back in the day. I don’t care if they were actual hot spots where the famous and infamous danced into the wee...
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Pulling the Strings: What Every Woman Knows (1934)
When Helen Hayes was cast in the 1926 Broadway production of What Every Woman Knows, she was not yet “The First Lady of the American Theater”. According to the show’s producer William A. Brady, she...
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This week on TCM Underground: The Decline of Western Civilization Part III...
This kids are most definitely not all right this week on TCM Underground. Last long enough in Hollywood and you will be remembered as much for the jobs you turned down as the ones you took on and such...
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Empire Pictures documentary Kickstarter campaign is live! Please give!
Documentary filmmaker Daniel Griffith (SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE DEVIL: A 50 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE [2009], THE WONDER WORLD OF K. GORDON MURRAY [2010], AS TIMELESS AS INFINITY: THE TWILIGHT ZONE LEGACY...
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Double Your Pleasure with a Dracula Double Feature
On Sunday Oct. 25th and Wednesday Oct. 28th, classic horror fans are in for a real cinematic treat. Turner Classic Movies in association with Fathom Events and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment...
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