Monday, June 24, 2019

Seven Things to Know About Andy Griffith

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Andy in No Time for Sergeants. 1. Andy Griffith's first major success was a comic monologue called "What It Was, Was Football,...
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Thursday, June 20, 2019

Movie-TV Connection Game (June 2019)

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Ronald Colman and Elke Sommer. Never played before? Here are the rules:  You will be given a pair or trio of films or performers and wi...
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Sunday, June 16, 2019

Quatermass 2 (Enemy from Space)

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While returning to his observatory in rural England, physicist Bernard Quatermass narrowly avoids a car accident. The other vehicle stops an...
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Monday, June 10, 2019

Capricorn One: Peter Hyams' Conspiracy Thriller

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Moments before the launch of a manned mission to Mars, Capricorn One's three astronauts are secretly pulled from the rocket. Hidden from...
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

#5FaveSciFiFilms - Your 5 Favorite Science Fiction Films Tweetathon

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What are your five favorite science fiction films? That's the topic for our first tweetathon, which is sort of a blogathon for Twitter...
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Sunday, June 2, 2019

Inspector Morse: The Remorseful Day

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John Thaw as Morse. This review contains spoilers! When it debuted on the PBS anthology series Mystery!  in 1987, Inspector Morse offe...
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Monday, May 27, 2019

The Three-Word TV Series Game (May 2019)

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The concept is the same here as with the Three-Word Movie Game. We will describe a TV series in three words and ask you to name it. Most of ...
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Monday, May 20, 2019

Billy Wilder's Irma la Douce

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Irma and her dog Coquette. After ill-advisedly arresting eighteen Parisian prostitutes, the well-meaning Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon) is f...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

5 Favorite Films of the 1950s Blogathon for National Classic Movie Day

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To celebrate National Classic Movie Day on May 16th, we are hosting the 5 Favorite Films of the 1950s Blogathon. Per its title, the goal is ...
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Five Favorite Films of the 1950s--Toughest Blogathon Ever!

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To celebrate National Classic Movie Day 2019, we're hosting the Five Favorite Films of the 1950s blogathon. Naturally, the Cafe staff is...
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Monday, May 13, 2019

David Niven Says Bonjour Tristesse to Deborah Kerr

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Jean Seberg and David Niven. Seventeen-year-old Cecile and her wealthy, widower father split their time between Paris and the French Riv...
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Monday, May 6, 2019

Albert Finney Hunts Wolfen in NYC

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Albert Finney and friend. For years, I felt an irresistible impulse to indulge in Albert Finney's two 1980 horror/sci fi films whene...
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Monday, April 29, 2019

In Defense of the Musical Lost Horizon

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A glimpse of Shangri-La. It was a boxoffice bomb and savaged by critics. It barely recouped 25% of its budget, leading the movie industr...
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Thursday, April 25, 2019

The Five Best Shirley MacLaine Performances

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1. The Apartment  (1960) - While Shirley MacLaine often played strong, independent women later in her career, her finest performance was as ...
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Monday, April 22, 2019

Movie-TV Connection Game (April 2019)

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If you're new to this game, here are the rules:  You will be given a pair or trio of films or performers and will be required to to find...
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Thursday, April 18, 2019

Gun Crazy: Lovers That Go Together Like Guns and Ammunition

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Peggy Cummins takes aim! A film noir with a tragic love story involving the femme fatale and a gun-obsessed guy? That's the unlike...
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