At this time of year AMC and TCM and your local video store dust off a number of classic movies that you have heard of and seen parts of even if you have never watched the films. These are the classic monster movies from Universal Studios. Filmed mostly in the 1930s and 1940s [Read More …]

Now here is a young actor, well on his way to Hollywood immortality who really has it all. McGregor is good looking, of course, he is a subtle actor with an astounding range, he is not afraid to take cinematic chances, and he even does full frontal when called for. McGregor may have [Read More …]

I was looking at a filmography and it occurred to me that there were some actors and actresses who had an impact on cinema history and American culture far beyond the stretch of their film careers.
Nowadays we are used to many of our stars rising and falling in a short period of time, but there [Read More …]

The Academy Awards have not been kind to comedies over the years. Of course the Best Film winning comedies are not necessarily the best comedies ever made. Of these Academy Award winning films, only three appear on the AFI list of 100 funniest movies ever, Annie Hall appears at 4, It Happened One [Read More …]

Jimmy Stewart as he was commonly known was the quintessential everyman in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Lacking the suavity of Cary Grant of the sexy appeal of Clark Gable, Stewart made his career playing the common man hero who rises above adversity. Born in Indiana Pennsylvania Stewart began appearing in films in [Read More …]