TCM in June: Highlights

It's hard to believe it's June already. Summer is just around the corner, hooray! It's time to take a look at a few of the inte...

Tonight's Movie: Airport 1975 (1974)

AIRPORT 1975 is a deliciously hokey airline disaster movie in the tradition of ZERO HOUR! (1957), THE CROWDED SKY (1960), and SKYJACKED (...

With Gratitude on Memorial Day

We are thinking today of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our nation and our freedom. There are not adequate words to express our p...

Tonight's Movie: Miranda (1948)

Before SPLASH (1984) and its mermaid led to a generation of little girls named Madison, there was MIRANDA, a gorgeous mermaid played by Glyn...

Tonight's Movie: The Great McGinty (1940)

THE GREAT MCGINTY is a very entertaining satire about political corruption, written and directed by Preston Sturges . Sturges won the Oscar...

Around the Blogosphere This Week

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet... ...Last week SlashFilm posted a 1927 Paramount Studios map of Californ...

A Blessed Trinity Sunday

One of my favorite hymns, " Holy, Holy, Holy " was ringing out in church this lovely Trinity Sunday . What a great way to start t...

Tonight's Movie: The Dark Corner (1946)

THE DARK CORNER is 99 minutes of film noir bliss which sucked me in from the minute Alfred Newman's Gershwinesque " Street Scene &q...

Tonight's Movie: The Shining Hour (1938)

THE SHINING HOUR is an engrossing MGM melodrama with an outstanding cast, marred only by a rather improbable ending. Olivia Riley (Joan Craw...

In Disney News...

Here's some of the interesting Disney-related news of the past few days... ...The IMAGINEERING FIELD GUIDE TO EPCOT was just released i...

New Book: Knott's Preserved

KNOTT'S PRESERVED: FROM BOYSENBERRY TO THEME PARK, A HISTORY OF KNOTT'S BERRY FARM , by Christopher Merritt and J. Eric Lynxwiler, r...

Please Pardon the Radio Silence...

...I've been in the midst of a huge work crunch which is barely allowing me time to breathe, let alone blog (grin). I should have every...

Happy Birthday, Jeanne Crain!

One of my very favorite actresses , Jeanne Crain , was born in Barstow , California, on this date 85 years ago. My favorite Jeanne Crain fi...

May the Cookies Be With You

Just in time for the 30th anniversary of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK...Williams-Sonoma is now exclusively selling STAR WARS cookie cutters . My ...

Quick Preview of TCM in August: Summer Under the Stars

Thanks to Ivan for the hot tip that Turner Classic Movies has posted its August schedule online today. Last weekend I shared TCM's pr...

Tonight's Movie: Sissi - The Young Empress (1956)

One of the great pleasures in my movie viewing this year has been meeting SISSI (Romy Schneider) for the very first time. A couple weekends...