As you read this, members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) are currently pounding the pavement in New York and Los Angeles, raising signs and rhyming chants to anyone who will … Continue reading National Film Registry 2023 Nominations Ballot
A handsome book loaded with pictures and just enough history to whet budding film lovers’ taste. Continue reading WARNER BROS. 100 YEARS OF STORYTELLING
I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap heard ’round the world” wasn’t it—though that cast a pall over the proceedings, didn’t it?—but the … Continue reading Cinema 101
Every August TCM breaks from its regularly scheduled programming to honor the faces that make the great mechanical art form so enchanting. It’s Summer Under the Stars, 24 hours with a dozen or so movies from a single actor, 31 … Continue reading TCM’s Summer Under the Stars
You think you know fuck everything and I know fuck nothing. Well let me tell you, I know fuck all! The next time I want an idiot to do this, I’ll do it myself! —Michael Curtiz (and his wonderful grasp of … Continue reading Born On This Day — December 24
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