Monday, December 1, 2025

Silly, Sometimes Funny is the Way to Go!

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Shirley MacLaine in an Edith Head gown. When widow Louisa May Hopper Flint Anderson Benson tries to give $211 million to the U.S. treasu...
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Monday, November 17, 2025

Edward G. Robinson Movie Reviews: Good Dad, Bad Dad

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Edward G. Robinson & Margaret O'Brien. Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945).  A year after receiving a special "outstanding chi...
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Monday, November 3, 2025

Seven Things to Know About "The Avengers"

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John S Steed and Mrs. Emma Peel. 1. Patrick Macnee played John Steed in 159 of the 161 episodes of The Avengers  from 1961-69. The two episo...
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Sunday, October 19, 2025

The 25 Greatest Classic Horror Films

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We thought October was the perfect month to unveil our choices for the 25 Greatest Classic Horror Films. Note that these are "classic...
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Monday, October 6, 2025

Green Fire Flames Out

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Grace Kelly starred in five  movies released in 1954, including Rear Window  (a bona fide Hitchcock classic), Dial M for Murder , and The Co...
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Monday, September 22, 2025

Michael Crichton's "Coma" Thrills

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Geneviève Bujold as Dr. Wheeler. Bestselling author Michael Crichton ( Jurassic Park , The Andromeda Strain ) directed seven films during hi...
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Monday, September 8, 2025

Danger in the Skies: It's The Concorde...Airport '79

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Susan Blakely as Maggie. With Airport '77  ranking 19th at the box office in 1977, it was inevitable that another Airport sequel would s...
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Monday, August 25, 2025

Marlon Brando Directs!

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Brando: Director and star. Movie buffs and Western fans should to check out One-Eyed Jacks  (1961), Marlon Brando’s flawed, overlong—but alw...
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Monday, August 11, 2025

Seven Things to Know About Alfred Hitchcock Presents

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1. Alfred Hitchcock's daughter, Pat, appeared in ten episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents . Her first appearance was in the season1 epi...
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Monday, July 28, 2025

Cult Movie Theatre: Black Moon Rising

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Tommy Lee Jones as Quint. To supplement his income as a director early in his career, John Carpenter penned screenplays--several of whic...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Bert I. Gordon's The Food of the Gods

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Marjoe Gortner as Morgan. Is it possible to feel nostalgic about a Bert I. Gordon movie? Mr. B.I.G. was known for making movies about giant ...
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Monday, June 30, 2025

Frank Sinatra as Tony Rome Times Two!

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One wonders if Frank Sinatra regretted turning down the lead role in  Harper  (1966), one of the '60s best detective films. That might e...
Monday, June 16, 2025

John Frankenheimer's Black Sunday

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Having recently watched John Frankenheimer's superb Seven Days in May again , I became interested in revisiting his 1977 thriller Black...
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