IT would be hard to find two movies as different from each other as the 1931 monster classic "Frankenstein" and the 1936 musical "Showboat," with Paul Robeson. But each was directed by the same man, the British-born James Whale. Best known for the...
"The Hollywood Revue of 1929,'' featuring Norma Shearer doing Shakespeare with John Gilbert, Joan Crawford shimmying, Buster Keaton and Marie Dressler singing and Jack Benny hosting, has made its DVD premiere at the Warner Archive, complete with...
Maureen O'Hara is dearly missed at Neary's, the cozy restaurant at 57th Street off First Avenue where all the waitresses and bartenders are Irish. O'Hara, 89 -- who starred with Charles Laughton in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and made five movies...
TCM and Universal have finally confirmed details (see release below) of their new partnership I reported on here a couple of weeks ago after seeing an ad in TCM's program guide. As I suspected, the titles, starting with a Universal horror set available...
There's a lot more to enjoying the annual DVD summer binge than raiding the new release shelves. OF ALL the honoured traditions that come with summer - the sunburn, the over-eating, the renewed vows to exercise - it is the ritual of the holiday DVD pig-...
Seattle Art Museum kicks off a new film series for the new year: "King of Cool: The Films of Steve McQueen" begins Thursday and continues weekly through March 11. The 10 films starring McQueen — who died in 1980, but would have been 80 years old in 2010...
I suspect that 2010 will be a year of disappointment in US foreign policy. President Obama will continue to backtrack and assume more of the characteristics of George W. Bush. The war in Iraq will linger, the war in Afghanistan will heat up. The US...
Waiting in the Shadows “The age of the dictator was at hand, waiting in the shadows for the event to call it forth.” Thus Dalton Trumbo began his screenplay of Spartacus. We live in state of consciousness — more than mere zeitgeist — in which the...
Thanks to all contributors and just to remind, this round is a two-week one, taking us through the New Year. A special thanks to Paul Sullivan, who ventured no fewer than 57 predictions for 2010 and beyond. On balance, the predictions so far have been...
