We will be blogging about films that were shown at past Cinevent conventions until the Picture Show in May. This week we review a movie shown in 2006. RODNEY BOWCOCK: Joe and Casey (Spencer Tracy and Jack Oakie) are telephone line repairmen (troubleshooters to those of you in the know). Their girlfriends (Constance Cummings and Arline Judge) work the switchboards. Joe’s ex-partner gets fired for being involved in an illicit gambling scheme. He blames Joe, opens a real estate

We will be blogging about films that were shown at past Cinevent conventions until the Picture Show in May. This week we review a movie shown in 1992. RODNEY BOWCOCK: Ruthless (1948) tells us the story of Horace Vendig (Zachary Scott), a merciless capitalist masquerading as a philanthropist (although, to be fair, those two things do often intersect, even, or especially today). The story is told via flashback as we witness scenes of his troubled childhood with an absent father

We will be blogging about films that were shown at past Cinevent conventions until the Picture Show in May. This week we review a movie shown in 1985 & 2005. RODNEY BOWCOCK: Johnny Hines is Tommy “Crackerjack” Perkins, who after working his way through college in a diner finds himself back running the business of his uncle, Perkins Pickles. It’s not doing so well, but Tommy has a can-do attitude and stumbles upon the idea of stuffing the pickles with cheese and dubbing the pr

We will be blogging about films that were shown at past Cinevent conventions until the Picture Show in May. This week we review a movie shown in 1989. RODNEY BOWCOCK: Well, what have we here? Is it an authentic crime procedural? Is it a sensational horror picture? Yes. Yes, it is. The story starts as what seems to be a simple crime drama, as a detective sets out to find the killer of an undercover police officer. Soon after, the foster father of Eugenie, a flowergirl is murde