Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Mae Clarke (Waterloo Bridge)
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She's remembered now, if at all, as "what's her name, the good- looking blonde who got James Cagney's grapefruit in the ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
1929-30 Alternate Oscars
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Six days after the April 3, 1930 Oscar ceremony in honor of the best movies of 1928-29 — a public-relations debacle where a five-member ...
Sunday, October 12, 2025
The Marx Brothers in
The Cocoanuts
— The Best Comedy of 1929
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This review is adapted from my (in)famous eight-part, 12,000 word essay on the Marx Brothers which you can start reading here ... if you...
Thursday, October 9, 2025
1928-29 Alternate Oscars
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If the Academy was vaguely in the ballpark the first year it handed out Oscars, it completely blew it the next. This year the winners were...
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Lillian Gish: Gone with
The Wind
(1928)
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As the silent era drew to a close, Lillian Gish — one of the day's greatest film stars (second only to Mary Pickford in my book) — was...
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