Tonight's Movie: She Had to Say Yes (1933)

It's back to the department store for Loretta Young and Winnie Lightner, stars of last night's movie, PLAY-GIRL (1932). Tonight Lo...

Noir City Film Festival Opens in L.A. April 2nd

Susan King has a nice interview with Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode about the upcoming Noir City Film Festival . The festival opens Friday ...

Tonight's Movie: Play-Girl (1932)

PLAY-GIRL is the misleading title of an hour-long pre-Code melodrama starring Loretta Young and Norman Foster. Loretta plays a young departm...

Quick Preview of TCM in June

Turner Classic Movies released their June schedule online today.  The June Star of the Month will be the beautiful Natalie Wood. TCM will be...

In Blogging News...

I've been doing quite a bit of research this month on problems resulting from Google's imposition of "Autopagination" on B...

Bits of Entertainment News

Odds and ends to start the week... ... Turner Classic Movies accidentally showed a commercial Sunday night. Apparently it was a technical...

Tonight's Movie: Where Do We Go From Here? (1945)

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? is a strange little Kurt Weill-Ira Gershwin musical which finds Fred MacMurray, Joan Leslie, and June Haver travel...

Tonight's Movie: Ramrod (1947)

RAMROD is an absorbing, fairly dark Western depicting a brutal range war. The bloodshed is incited by a manipulative woman (Veronica Lake) ...

Tonight's Movie: Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

Singing waiter Buddy Clayton (Dick Powell) is an almost-overnight sensation as a radio crooner. Buddy wants to marry his girlfriend, Peggy ...

Around the Blogosphere This Week

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet... ... Moira Finnie has a most interesting profile of actress Helen Walke...

Tonight's Movie: Hard to Get (1938)

HARD TO GET is a pleasant though not particularly distinguished screwball romance about a silly heiress (Olivia de Havilland) and a gas stat...

Coming to DVD: MGM and Fox on Demand

A new batch of "burned on demand" DVDs from Fox and MGM are now available for preorder. The release date has not yet been announc...

Tonight's Movie: Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009); and a Visit to Walt Disney Studios

As I mentioned briefly last night , I was privileged to attend a screening of the new documentary WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY last evening on the...

Coming Soon: A Visit to Walt Disney Studios

My daughter and I had a wonderful visit to Walt Disney Studios this evening to see the new documentary WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY (2009), court...

Robert Culp Passed Away Today

It's been a sad week and a half for fans of classic television...first came word of the passing of Peter Graves , then we learned that F...

Tonight's Movie: Caught (1949)

When James Mason met Robert Ryan onscreen toward the end of CAUGHT (1949), the phrase "clash of the titans" suddenly ran through m...

Film Noir Festival Coming to Los Angeles

The 12th Annual Noir City Festival comes to the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles next month. The titles screening between April 2nd and 18th...

Tonight's Movie: Faithless (1932)

FAITHLESS is an interesting and fairly brutal pre-Code look at one couple's struggle to survive during the Great Depression. Initially t...

Tonight's Movie: The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT is an exceedingly silly Doris Day movie. It's made palatable by the film's two leads, the lovely Doris hersel...

Tonight's Movie: Kathleen (1941)

Shirley Temple plays a poor little rich girl in the title role of KATHLEEN. KATHLEEN served as a bridge transitioning the 12-year-old Templ...

Around the Blogosphere This Week

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet... ... Immortal Ephemera and Hollywood Dreamland both blogged about THE ...