My purely idiosyncratic list designed to promote the Funny Lady Blogathon now up and running at Movies, Silently . "A baker's doze...

Bill Wyman over at the New Yorker website reminds me that this month is the twentieth anniversary of Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville , wh...

A while back after I wrote my thumbs-up review of the 1929 version of The Taming of the Shrew , starring Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford...

As soon as I (read: Katie-Bar-The-Door) can figure out how to embed a poll other than the buggy blogspot poll gadget I've been using, yo...

Duck Soup —running time: 1 hour 8 minutes Casablanca —running time: 1 hour 42 minutes Citizen Kane —running time: 1 hour 59 minutes No...

By 1929, silent movies were as dead as disco and even the biggest stars of that suddenly bygone era found themselves struggling to connect...

We here at the Monkey pause to sadly note the passing of Ray Harryhausen, for my money the greatest special effects wizard of all time and a...

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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard surely ranks as one of the greatest movies of all time, and perhaps the greatest movie about the mo...