Mangai! Mangai! I’m a big fan of spaghetti westerns and enjoy devouring them whenever possible. While not always filmed in Italy and certainly not a focus on Italian culture, the ‘spaghetti western’ earned it’s namesake for the inexpensively-made westerns filmed mostly across western Europe by mostly Italian directors with a mix of Italian, other European and a few American cultures making up the cast and … Continue reading Mangai! Spaghetti Westerns

Finally caught World War Z today & loved it! Ck out Michael of ScribeHard’s review here… Continue reading WORLD WAR Z Review: It’s a Dead Man’s Party, Who Could Ask For More

Originally posted on Ticklish Business:
Whether it’s a man and two women, or a woman and two men, the love triangle has been Hollywood’s bread and butter for decades.  1940 was all about this, as evidenced by two highly similar movies that came out within months of each other – the Cary Grant starring My Favorite Wife, and today’s film, Too Many Husbands.  I reviewed… Continue reading Too Many Husbands (1940)

Originally posted on portraitsbyjenni:
Ernest Lubitch was a brilliant movie director, immigrant from Germany, who had a way with telling a comedic film.  To Be or Not To Be, which debuted in 1942, is a fine example of his work,  a movie that finds comedy gold in the errors made by the main characters.    The cast includes Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Robert Stack, Lionel… Continue reading My Classic Movie Pick: To Be or Not To Be

Originally posted on Once upon a screen…:
This is for Judy! “I’ve always taken ‘The Wizard of Oz’ very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I’ve spent my entire life trying to get over it.”     Continue reading JUDY!

Originally posted on Once upon a screen…:
It was a Tuesday more than ninety years ago today – June 6, 1933 – that people first drove their cars right up to a screen to watch movies on Crescent Boulevard in Camden, New Jersey.  A new form of entertainment was born and Once Upon a Screen remembers once upon a screen in everywhere U.S.A. with a… Continue reading The DRIVE-IN turns 80

Originally posted on Seetimaar-Diary of a Movie Lover:
After having conducted  successfully, blogathons  on  Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, Tony Scott,  and Howard Hawks, the time has now come for another  blogathon.  Actually the next quarter, would see 3 back to back blogathons conducted on 3 of the most  influential directors in American cinema, Sydney Pollack,  Roman Polanski  and Oliver Stone.  The blogathons on Polanski and… Continue reading Sydney Pollack Blogathon, July 1-22, 2013

Originally posted on cinematically insane:
From 1962 until his retirement in 1992, Johnny Carson ruled the late night airwaves with wit, grace, and the occasional feathered turban. He wasn’t the first emcee of NBC’s The Tonight Show, nor the last, but he is universally considered the best. And now, two decades after his final sign-off and eight years after his death at age 79, some of… Continue reading Paging Art Fern! Carson and Classic Hollywood Together Again on TCM

Recently, my husband and I drove to the birthplace of John Wayne of Winterset, Iowa. Every year, the entire town holds a big gala to commemorate the Duke’s birthday with a 3-day series of special events which takes place the weekend closest to his birthday anniversary (May 26, 1907). I’m not gonna lie, I’m a fan of really good classic westerns. Ergo, I’m a John … Continue reading A Night with Maureen O’Hara

Originally posted on Once upon a screen…:
I have a special affection for Warner Bros. (WB) – the studio that gave us Cagney, Davis and Bogart with a tough and gritty attitude, a realism no other studio could emulate – or dared to.  It’s the stuff that dreams are made of – for classic film fans in any case.  So Imagine my joy when I… Continue reading Best of Warner Bros. 50-Film Collection