One of the most fascinating marathon-ish experiences I ever had at a movie theatre — other than the Planet of the Apes quintet screening I attended a loooooong time ago — would be the opportunity to see all five of artist Matthew Barney’s incredible Cremaster movies, over a period of a few days.  (I’ve just searched and found [...]

  Who might have believed that one of the more unusual bits of movie star ephemera is making a vibrant comeback?  Movie star paper dolls, once a popular marketing tool (only they called it publicity back then) designed to satisfy the audience’s desire to get close to their favorite performers, were big sellers to little and [...]

Okay, so I’m again officially the last to know something.  This marvelous young actor/comedian named Andrew Goldenberg, a.k.a. Goldentusk, has been writing, producing, and starring in a series of imaginative original videos, taking movie theme songs and putting his own words to them, and playing all the characters.  Maybe you’ve seen them — I hadn’t until yesterday, [...]

What becomes of a screen siren/Academy Award winner afterwards…after she’s not such a siren anymore, and maybe she’s gotten a reputation as a little bit difficult to work with?  Lucky for talented and tempestous Gloria Grahame there was television, and the medium was delighted to have a genuine Oscar-calibre actress available.  When Grahame started to [...]

Today would have been the 98th birthday of beloved actress and comedienne Lucille Ball, who died a little over twenty years ago.  Of course it’s almost impossible to believe that we no longer have Lucy with us, because she’s around us every day, as solid a piece of pop culture as there is anywhere.  Even [...]

Who can resist the exotic notion of the magical genie, emerging smokily from its pent-up quarters (probably a magic lamp) to grudgingly do one’s bidding?  Though Disney’s genie from the animated Aladdin seems to have superceded many other cinematic genies in the minds of the younger generation at least, it’s the old-fashioned kind that appeal to me.  [...]

I’m about to make a stop at the Baby Boomer station here, so beware all ye young folks.  (Like there are any reading a classic movie blog..right.)  I think you might have to be over thirty to have the words “Chicken Fat” mean anything to you other than the thick yellow liquid floating on the [...]

I’m not going to try to repeat what’s already been written in past two days about the great Karl Malden, who died yesterday at the age of ninety-seven.  Compared to so many of his show business compadres, Mr. Malden had a tremendously and accomplished long life, filled with artistic triumphs, the respect of his peers, [...]

Reading Moira’s fantastic post about Errol Flynn, and watching the clip from the movie Thank Your Lucky Stars that she posted, got me thinking and searching around for favorite musical clips.  I always loved TYLS, and was so happy that YouTube has this other particularly excellent number from it.  It’s the very snappy, totally cool, [...]