Some classic movies sound good in theory, yet tend to wallow on Must
See lists and Netflix queues rather than actual screens, as the timing
may just never feel quite right to sit down and watch...
Considering the historical entwinement of the United States and
Britain, for the most part, people on either side of the Atlantic know
where to spot the differences between our two cultures. Th...
When it comes to 1950s pop culture, you don’t find many pairs more
iconic than Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. As stars of the beloved TV
comedy I Love Lucy, which ran from 1951 to 1957, they ...
In 1937, Katharine Hepburn was struggling. Or rather, the idea of
“Katharine Hepburn” was struggling. Though she’d already claimed
her first Oscar win in 1933 for Morning Glory, and contri...
Though romantic comedies have largely fallen out of respect in
mainstream cinema today, there was a time—as has been proved
repeatedly throughout the Romantic Comedy Blogathon—when romantic
...
The Thin Man is one of cinema’s most enduring and beloved series,
stemming from Dashiell Hemmett’s original novel from 1934. The
delightful film series would ultimately span six movies, fro...
Bachelor Mother is another one of those great time-capsule movies
that communicates much more to a modern viewer than just its plot.
It’s a light, charming comedy from 1939, starring Ginger R...
This marks my first film watched as a new subscriber of Warner
Archive’s Instant service! If you’re not familiar, Warner Archive
Instant is similar to Netflix in that it gives you digital ac...
Easy Living, part of a Preston Sturges double feature at New Beverly
this past week, is a delightful screwball comedy from 1937. It’s
full of misunderstandings and mistaken identities, and it...
I hadn’t actually planned on watching this movie–though it is
directed by Busby Berkeley, it’s not actually a musical, so it
didn’t cross on my radar while I was plotting this month’s R...
