British film historian David Thomson once opined that if he could only save ten movies from a sinking ship, he'd take ten by Howard Ha...

Much celebrated in her day, Norma Shearer's name is now met by many with derision — including, once upon a time, by the sock monkey w...

Our long national nightmare is over! The sock monkey who types this blog finally got around to bringing the Katie-Bar-the-Door Awards up...

I've written about Rob Reiner before (most recently here ). He directed a run of classic movies from 1984 to 1992 that wasn't j...

August 1, 1930-to-July 31, 1931, was one of those movie years where the list of the Academy's nominees and winners would give you a ...