Sunday, March 29, 2015

A Visit to the Williamsburg Film Festival

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With its big star lineup and restoration premieres, the TCM Classic Film Festival has become the annual convention for many classic film fan...
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

An Interview with Michael McGreevey: The Actor-Writer Discusses Riverboat, Disney, the Fame TV Series, and The Waltons

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Michael McGreevy and Sally Field in The Way West . Michael McGreevey made his film debut at age of 7 in the 1958 Jane Powell musical The...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

An Interview with Lana Wood

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Lana in Diamonds Are Forever . I recently had the pleasure of meeting actress Lana Wood at the Williamsburg Film Festival. Although best...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with "Darby O'Gill and the Little People"

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In the picturesque Irish village of Rathcullen, old codger Darby O'Gill (Albert Sharpe) spends more time in the pub talking about lepr...
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Saturday, March 14, 2015

This Is Cinerama!

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Former Paramount special effects technician Fred Waller invented Cinerama, a widescreen process which produces a 165-degree curved image, in...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Five Best Swashbuckler Films

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One of the challenges with listing “swashbuckler films” is that they form a wide genre that defies easy categorization. Yes, a swashbucklin...
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Monday, March 9, 2015

DVD Spotlight: Fireball XL5

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Fireball XL5  holds a special place among Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation TV series. It was the first to be shown in the U.S. and the ...
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Saturday, March 7, 2015

Who Is Nina Van Pallandt?

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In the Ellery Queen episode "The Adventure of Colonel Nivin's Memoirs." Recently, we were watching an episode of Jim Hutt...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Abbott & Costello Meet the Frankenstein Monster...and Dracula...and the Wolf Man*

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Lou sits on the Frankenstein Monster. Ask a classic movie fan to name their favorite comedians and I suspect only a few would list Bud ...
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Monday, March 2, 2015

The Movie-TV Connection Game (March 2015)

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What do Travolta and Olivier have in common? We're back with another edition of the connection game. As always, you will once again ...
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Friday, February 27, 2015

Snack-sized Film Reviews: "Horror at 37,000 Feet" and "Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You"

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Hey, something's wrong with this plane! The Horror at 37,000 Feet . What can you say about a movie in which William Shatner gives th...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

The Five Best Ellery Queen TV Series Episodes

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Jim Hutton as Ellery. A unique literary creation, Ellery Queen is famous as both a fictional detective and a best-selling “author” (as a...
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