I am so excited to post about one of my absolute favorite Christmas classics: White Christmas. Starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye as two former soldiers who met during WWII, this film has everything that makes the classics (and Christmas movies) great–comedy, music, very talented cast, quotable script, misunderstandings, and of course, a happy…
Though our humble blog tends to focus on the classics (which we generally categorize as pre-1970s movies, with a few notable exceptions), this does not mean we thumb our nose at so-called “modern” film. Quite the opposite, in fact. Well, except for crap like Transformers. Or The A-Team. Or Jackass 3-D. And so on. I,…
Merry Christmas! In the spirit of the season, True Classics will be doing a number of reviews of some of our favorite Christmas movies. This is not exactly the beginning of that series, but I have to say A Charlie Brown Christmas is still on my list. It’s a great Christmas movie, but that’s another…
Hello, Classic Film World! I apologize for my absence from the blog (and especially to Brandie and Nikki for leaving them to keep things going so swimmingly without help- *pause for a moment of applause*). So, I’m getting back in gear with Therapy Thursday again… and I’m taking it a different direction. Today, I’m doing…
Nothing makes me smile more than when I’m watching a movie on TCM that I have never seen before and the smiling, round face of Cuddles Sakall appears on the screen. And this past Friday’s lineup had double the Cuddles; the network’s night of Gordon MacRae films featured two movies co-starring Sakall, Tea for Two…
Where do I begin on Dumbo? It’s difficult to bring myself to write a synopsis, because I feel like it would be a rather superfluous thing to do. I suppose I’ll get straight to talking about its merits. I loved Dumbo as a child. I can’t remember what about it particularly, but I loved it.…
It should come as no surprise that the three of us grew up loving animated films in general, and Walt Disney feature films in particular. We grew up in the time of the “clamshell” video cases, and I remember a veritable forest of them populating the shelves of my parents’ entertainment center. In fact, they’re…
You may have seen my recommendation of The Snake Pit for the Olivia de Havilland edition of the SUtS series. I recommended it, but had not yet seen the film. Part of the joy of the project was getting to see films I hadn’t watched or reviewed, yet, and this was one of them. I…
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