"Hitchcock and the Censors" &"Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism"Two hitch books for two lucky winners! CMH is excited to announce our next Classic Movie Book Giveaway as part of our partnership with University Press of Kentucky! This time we're celebrating October with two books about the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock! Nevertheless we are giving away...
“Some guys can be sold out; some guys can't do that. " Humphrey Bogart is the symbol of film noir. Although he has worked tirelessly in genres such as drama, romance, and comedy, the man affectionately known as "Bogie" is best known for the dozen or so noir films he made between 1940 and his death in...
Cinemallennials: Casablanca (1942) For those of you unfamiliar with cinemallennials, it's a bi-weekly podcast where me and another Millennial watch a classic movie we've never seen before and discuss its importance and relevance in today's world. In this episode I spoke to Alexandra Riba about one of the most famous and popular films of all time, Casablanca....
Silver Screen Standards: Claude Rains I couldn't decide between several of the films I had in mind for this month's column, and then I realized they all had something in common - Claude Rains. Rains is one of those actors whose presence makes any movie better, whether it's in melodrama, horror, historical adventure, or film noir. Although...
Noir Nook: "Killer" Noir Film noir is not easy to define. Sometimes it's not that easy to tell whether a film is noir or not. Whenever I am asked to describe film noir, my answer is that noir films in general depict a universe marked by corruption, pessimism and hopelessness, and generally characterized by shadows, reflections and...
Classic Film Travel: Donald Meek Donald meekness A popular character actor, Thomas Donald Meek was born on July 14, 1878 in Glasgow, Scotland, to Matthew and Annie Meek. Meek was one of four children with two older sisters named Annie and Maggie and a younger brother named Marcus. His family moved to Canada and later the United...
Western RoundUp: Gun hour (1967) It's been a few months since I dedicated a Western RoundUp column to a single movie, so I'm focusing on my very first look at this this month Gun hour (1967). Gun hour (1967)That brings me back to the subject of Wyatt Earp. I wrote on film for Classic Movie Hub through...
"I didn't fall in love with a woman - I fell in love with a patient." Robert Mitchum belonged to a generation of leading men who became known in film noir. Along with Burt Lancaster, Alan Ladd and Kirk Douglas, he was a B-Lister whose mushy charisma catapulted him onto the A-list. While these other stars used...
Nowadays there are films that consist of a lot of throw-away comments or ambitious banter, so when Dave Bautistamakes Jason Momoa propose to make a movie with him that says someone doesn't want to do that. Bautista has seen a meteoric rise in his career since he became known for playing Drax in Marvels Guardian of the...
It might seem impossible when we literally and figuratively have a star the size of Dwayne Johnson, that you could miss a movie of his or see it and forget about it. The man is a force, he's an icon, and he has a popular NBC show about his early life titled Young Rock and he's only...
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