Carrie’s choice: The Blob (1958) Airing 11:45AM EST Run…. Don’t walk from… The Blob! I’m taking just a couple of quick minutes for The Blob. This film is interesting in that it has become so culturally relevant, not for the film itself, but for the previews. The ads for The Blob have infiltrated our culture…
Today, we present you not with a recommendation, but with our personal challenge (and a scandalous secret–shh!). You see, in the past, Carrie and I vowed (several times) to–finally–sit through the three-plus-hour David Lean-directed epic Dr. Zhivago, from 1965. Sad to say, neither one of us ever actually did it. Shame face. So when this…
Brandie’s choice: A Tale of Two Cities (1935) Airing 1:00PM EST Most people are familiar with Rathbone in the persona pictured above, as the erstwhile detective Sherlock Holmes in a series of fourteen films spanning the years between 1939 and 1946. Carrie’s recommendations, listed below, will tell you a bit more about Rathbone’s most well-known…
So you may recall that February’s experiment in “let’s make a recommendation every day!” didn’t exactly work out the way I wanted it to. But as Fred and Ginger sang in one of their best, Swing Time, “pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.” (Well, now I just need to post…
One of the most subversive, entertaining films of the 1940s, To Be or Not to Be, directed by the wonderful Ernst Lubitsch, is a masterwork of satirical, comedic madness. To Be stars Jack Benny in what is arguably the best role of his career, as Josef Tura, the hammier part of a Polish husband-and-wife acting…
Happy birthday, Bugs! Today being the 70th birthday of one of the most iconic characters in entertainment history, it’s only appropriate to celebrate by watching some of the crazy rabbit’s best. For anyone interested, Bugs Bunny shorts run rampant on YouTube, including the best of them all–1957’s What’s Opera, Doc? I’m also partial to Duck…
I love introducing people to classic film, particularly younger people. Hook ’em young, I always say. Okay, so I don’t always say that. But I should. And so it’s now my new motto. Getting back to the point … Last night, I introduced Jamie, my friend Michelle’s seventeen-year-old son, to the uber-hilarious 1963 farce, It’s…
Ladies and gentlemen, today I present to you the case of the most celebrated and vilified Southern belle to ever grace the silver screen. Now, depending upon where you fall in that camp–whether you revere the young woman in question, or cringe at the sound of her name–generally determines your opinion of the film that…
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