TV Barn (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
If you're looking for a holiday gift that isn't loaded with F-bombs or carries a triple-digit sticker price, check out Studio One Anthology -- the first DVD collection from the celebrated TV drama showcase of the 1950s. I was struck...
EclipseMagazine.com (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
Beginning in 1948 and boasting a nine year run – and over four hundred and fifty episodes – Studio One was the premiere anthology series in a time when live television drama was brand new. Every week, brought a new story – and the multitude of other anthology series that followed were equally productive. To [...]
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Fox Movie Channel is having two showings of Elia Kazan's extraordinary Wild River this month, including one this afternoon. The film, starring Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick, is one of Kazan's finest and it is sadly still not available on DVD in America. FMC is advertising the showings as Widescreen and I can't wait to watch this undervalued treasure again.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
In a delightfully subversive programming decision, Turner Classic Movies is showing A Face in the Crowd tonight at 8pm, just days before the election.
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
The Omen and it's sequels arrive on Blu-ray disc alongside the 2006 remake in this 4-disc collection just in time for All Hallows Eve -- so dim the lights, light the jack-o'-lanterns and prepare to be scared.
Neatorama (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
Back by popular demand, I give you the stories behind some of your favorite horror classics - Part Two! The Omen I’m watching The Omen as I type this - how great is Gregory Peck? And he almost wasn’t cast in the part - the first pick was Charlton Heston, but he turned it down to [...]
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
If you dig back through the annals of horror and look at any well-received genre classic, you’ll also find an entourage of sequels, remakes, and reboots that have desperately tried and failed to achieve...
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
SIFF Cinema brings you a series of Shakespeare-themed films that starts off Friday with My Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant’s (in)famous film about two Portland hustlers played by Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix that was inspired by Henry IV. On Saturday check out the 1952 Cannes Film Festival winning film, Othello, directed by the [...]
Cinebeats (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
A few weeks ago the newest issue of Cinema Retro arrived in my mailbox and I finally had the opportunity to read it last night. The magazine features a lengthy in-depth look at the 1971 film Vanishing Point as well as an interview with the movie’s director Richard C. Sarafian. Car films from the ’70s [...]
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Blu-Ray Review: No, not the ghastly remake of the same name. The original 1976 version of The Omen has finally made it to Blu-ray, and Michael Mackenzie puts it through its paces.
Fine Dry Wit (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Forgive the intrusion of a non-Political post. I need a breather from all of that. I just finished watching “Anatomy Of A Murder” starring Jimmy Stewart and Lee Remick, and it is as powerful as I’d remembered. Otto Preminger was a masterful director, making a tight, interesting movie, based (follow me on this) on a novel, based in turn on an actual murder case in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in...
Notes From Coode Street (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Time and alcohol draw a veil over many things: specific dates, exactly who was there, precisely what was played. Still, I watched a documentary on the making of The Go-Betweens extraordinary final album, 16 Lovers Lane, and was motivated to send a shout out from the blog to my friend, Russell B. Farr. Sometime during [...]
ClickPress (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
"From Heavy Rock to Soulful R&B, Zachary Jaydon has done a little of just about everything. His ear for a good pop hook is impeccable." -Kevin Schaffer (Billboard Magazine)
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
By David Lambert - In 1948 a CBS executive decided to take one of their radio programs, which had been on for a few years at that point, and adapt it to the budding new world of television. Thus began... (more)
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
This was the theme for a 1965 movie of the same name starring Steve McQueen and Lee Remick. Yarbrough was the Limeliters lead tenor before he began his solo career. This song is his biggest hit. MP3 File
