To celebrate spooky season, we view and review lesser-known scary movies from the golden age. RODNEY BOWCOCK : The film opens as a book on the history of vampires is tossed into a fire while a head comes into focus, warning us not to be flippant with the powers of the dark arts. This leads us to a funeral in progress for Dr Elywn Clayton (George Zucco), a town misfit with a penchant for the occult. Attending the funeral is Elywn’s twin brother Dr Lloyd Clayton (Zucco again, n

This month we watch films featuring the final performance of a beloved star. This week we examine the last movie featuring Rags Ragland and Slim Summerville, The Hoodlum Saint. RODNEY BOWCOCK : Returning home from WWI we meet Major Terry O’Neill (William Powell), who was a newspaper reporter before he left for overseas. He returns home to find himself out of a job and unable to get a new one, along with many other returning soldiers. Terry has reunited with a group of small t

This month we watch films featuring the final performance of a beloved star. This week we examine Clara Bow in Hoopla. RODNEY BOWCOCK :  It’s old-timey carnival time when this movie opens as we meet Nifty Miller (Preston Foster) and his son Chris (Richard Cromwell).  Nifty manages the carnival and Chris is his bumpkin son who shows up to the carnival hoping for work and spoiling his dad’s relationship with his lover Carrie (Minna Gombell).  This ticks Carrie off but good so s

This month we watch films featuring the final performance of a beloved star. This week we witness William Powell's work in Mister Roberts. RODNEY BOWCOCK : The film is set on a navy cargo ship, The Reluctant , perched in the Pacific Ocean far from any of the conflicts that we are used to being thrust into in these sorts of films. It centers on Doug Roberts (Henry Fonda), the cargo chief of the ship, who is thirsty to see more of the battle action that he fantasizes about, his

Black Narcissus is the story of a cloister of nuns who are gifted the use of a palace in a remote part of India. They intend to turn it...

There are some actors who seem to be great in everything they do without exception. This month we explore some of Jean Arthur’s...

There are some actors who seem to be great in everything they do without exception. This month we explore some of Jean Arthur’s...

There are some actors who seem to be great in everything they do without exception. This month we explore some of Jean Arthur’s...

There are some actors who seem to be great in everything they do without exception. This month we explore some of Jean Arthur’s...

It's the dog days of summer, and if you are in the midwest like we are, it's been a steamy one. This week, we present a trio of classic...

This month we take a vacation with movies featuring characters doing the same. RODNEY BOWCOCK : The Palm Beach Story is essentially the...

This month we take a vacation with movies featuring characters doing the same. RODNEY BOWCOCK :  Lonesome (1928) tells a simple story...

This month we take a vacation with movies featuring characters doing the same. SAMANTHA GLASSER : Dagwood (Arthur Lake) and Blondie...

This week Samantha compares the novel and movie versions of A Summer Place . The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit is a book heralded for...

This month, we turn to a trio of musicals from the Golden Age of Hollywood, notable and seldom seen. SAMANTHA GLASSER : A group of...

This month, we turn to a trio of musicals from the Golden Age of Hollywood, notable and seldom seen. RODNEY BOWCOCK : Well, here’s a plot...

This month, we turn to a trio of musicals from the Golden Age of Hollywood, notable and seldom seen. RODNEY BOWCOCK:  Cover Girl  is a...

This time around, we present a trio of performances featuring Cary Grant.  First up it’s Screen Directors Playhouse  from January 20,...

RODNEY BOWCOCK : We round out our focus on comedy short subjects with something completely different than what we’ve reviewed before....

This month we are watching short comedies. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton worked together under Arbuckle's company Comique,...