Yesterday, Katie-Bar-The-Door and I finally got around to seeing writer-director Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster, Dunkirk , in 70...

On September 14-16, In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood is hosting The Lauren Bacall Blogathon . For reasons I won't go into her...

On this the seventieth anniversary of our forefather's supreme sacrifice on the beaches of Normandy, my good friend Mister Muleboy and I...

Maybe the critics aren't as fond as I am of those history lessons Golden Age Hollywood used to serve up—e.g., The Life of Emile Zola , T...

Saw this yesterday with Mister Muleboy at the AFI-Silver. In case you've never seen it, it's based on the true story of the mass es...

When America went to war in 1917, Hollywood—motivated by a mix of patriotism and profit motive—went to war with it. Some made propaganda pi...

In honor of Deborah Kerr's 90th birthday, Sophie of Waitin' On A Sunny Day is hosting the "Darling Deborah Blogathon." T...

The Birth Of A Nation — A Deeply Flawed, Would-Be Masterpiece Introduction Not entirely by coincidence, my series on the early silent era ha...

From my post about the best picture of 1929-30, All Quiet On The Western Front In the Twentieth Century, no war seemed like a better idea be...