When Worlds Collide, Moviegoers Love to Watch It’s 1910 and the world is in a panic. Halley’s Comet is on its way, and people are terrified. They buy gas masks to save themselves from poisonous fumes and take anti-comet pills for protection from other bad things. They pray in the streets and seek shelter in caves. The...
Classic Film Journeys: Arlene Golonka Arlene Golonka Arline Leanore Golonka was born on January 23, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois to Elinor Wroblewski Golonka and Frank Golonka. Her father died when she was two years old and her mother later married Edward Rejba. Elinor and Edward then had two children named Zorine and Jimmy. Golonka was of Polish...
Disney and Pixar's Turning Red trailer introduces Mei Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang), a confident, batty 13-year-old torn between her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of puberty. Her doting, if not slightly overbearing, mother Ming (voiced by Sandra Oh) is never far from her daughter - an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes...
Michael Keaton will be reprising the role of Vulture once again for a mystery Marvel project. Previously, Keaton debuted in the role as the antagonist in Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017. The actor was more recently shown in the trailer for Morbius, providing a strong connection between the MCU and Sony's Marvel universe. As it turns out, Keaton...
Silents are Golden: What were the top box office hits of 1923? I recently attended the Kansas Silent Film Festival (and yes, that's my plug for this delightful - and free - event!) where the theme was the silent films of 1923. It made me think: What were the highest-grossing movies from exactly a century ago? I...
Western summary: tombstone (1993) Was the 1881 OK Corral Shooting the Most Filmed True Incident in Western Cinematic History?I've never tried to count how many movies the shooting appears in, but it's a significant number. I've previously written here about four different films in which it appears; in a 2018 column I covered Border Marshal (1939), Tombstone:...
A trio of films bring Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" to life The idea of the last man or woman on earth fires my imagination. how will it happen when will it happen Why will it happen? "Germs. Bacteria. viruses. vampires.” That's author Richard Matheson's excellent answer to the "why" in I am Legend, his post-apocalyptic novella...
"I have never known an innate sagebut that didn't outsmart itself." Sterling Hayden never quite fitted. Primed for stardom at the height of the studio system, he was dubbed "The Beautiful Blonde Viking God" by Paramount Pictures and has appeared in multi-star dramas Virginia And Bahama Passage (both 1941). The selling point didn't stick. It was the...
The Nicholas Brothers - dance pioneers Most classic film fans have seen the Nicholas Brothers' stunning performance in the 1943 film Stormy Weather. But other than that, I'm sure most movie fans don't know much about her. Since today is Harold Nicholas' birthday, I thought this would be a good time to write about her. Fayard Nicholas...
Britney Spears is clarifying reports that she got into a physical altercation with her rumored boyfriend at the Chateau...
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