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Mike's Waiting Room

Tralfaz

Hmm...Could Be - Artie Auerbach died in 1957, but his catchphrase lives on. Auerbach was a newspaper photographer who met a man in Bronx. When Auerbach became a radio acto...
26 minutes ago
Greenbriar Picture Shows

Grinching a Sacred Cow - *This*, George, Is the Distance to Put Between Yourself and Bedford Falls It's a Wonderful Lie Would Frank Capra or his writers have chosen to live in Bed...
57 minutes ago
Cinema Retro

"SUPERMAN": TEASER TRAILER RELEASED FOR 2025 REBOOT - Official description: Check out the Superman teaser trailer for this upcoming DCU film from director James Gunn. Superman stars David Corenswet in the d...
1 day ago
The Place Where Jack Pendarvis has a "Blog"

The Arts - For our own personal and individual reasons, neither Dr. Theresa nor I eats sandwiches anymore. And I do believe that is correct subject/verb agreement if ...
1 day ago
Scared Silly: Classic Hollywood Horror-Comedies

THE HORROR OF SANTA CLAUS... 2024 EDITION!!! - NOTE: This is an encore of a piece originally posted in 2011, with an added thought from 2019 regarding the song, "Here Comes Santa Claus" ...
2 days ago
Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation

Animator Spotlight: Rod Scribner - In today’s world of focus-tested blandness and homogenized AI sludge, watching Scribner’s boldly personal weirdness from 80 years ago is a breath of fresh ...
2 days ago
Out of the Past

The CineHistorians Podcast: Australian Film Revival - On the latest episode of The CineHistorians Podcast, Dr. Carl Sweeney and I discuss Gillian Armstrong's film *My Brilliant Career *(1979) in depth and ...
6 days ago
Yowp

Bear For Punishment Backgrounds - One way of getting into a Yogi Bear cartoon was a pan over a long background while Don Messick, as narrator, sets up the plot. One of those cartoons was *...
1 week ago
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule

SEAN BAKER'S (AND MIKEY MADISON'S) ANORA - Way back in May it was that Patty, Emma and I drove to the SEE Film Multiplex in Bremerton to take in *I Saw the TV Glow*, and while there I took a ...
4 weeks ago
Motion Picture Gems

Video Clip: George Miller talks about the Mad Max Series - Sharing this clip from Vanity Fair where director George Miller talks about the Mad Max series including the new Furiosa movie that I want to see! Check it...
6 months ago
Thompson on Hollywood

The Academy Tightens Oscar Campaign and International Submission Rules - In the wake of "To Leslie," the Academy is cracking down on Oscar campaigning, restricting celebrity gatherings and social media promos.
1 year ago
Classic Television Showbiz

An Interview with Paul Krassner - Part Seven - *Kliph Nesteroff: You appeared on The Merv Griffin Show high on mescaline. The episode also featured comedian Jackie Vernon.* *Paul Krassner: Oh, yes. I...
5 years ago
If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

The Name of the Photographer is William Gedney #5 - Kentucky (1972)
6 years ago
MovieMorlocks.com

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6 years ago
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Nobody home. - There’s nothing here right now.
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The Trailers From Hell! Blog

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Jon's Random Acts of Geekery

A Fond Adieu... - On February 11, 2005, I began working on the blog that became Random Acts of Geekery, and for nearly 12 1/2 years, with a few exceptions, there've been pos...
7 years ago
filmicability with Dean Treadway

2013--The Year in Review - 2013 was a fantastic year for movies. Its prime entry was the eventual winner of the Best Picture Oscar, British director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave-...
7 years ago
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A Less Hostile View of ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ - Having just seen Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass on opening night, with a paying audience at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, I am late in fil...
8 years ago
DECAYING HOLLYWOOD MANSIONS

Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills 1940 -
8 years ago
Peter Bogdanovich

The King Vidor File – Part Two - This part consists of comments on some of his finest and most popular work, including The Big Parade, The Champ, and Street Scene, as well as one of his mo...
8 years ago
Held Over! Newspaper Movie Ads

Golden Needles 1974 - Scanned from my copy of the New York Daily News, dated August 9, 1974, comes this full-page ad for "Golden Needles." The headline of the paper was "Nixon ...
9 years ago
Michael Sporn Animation - Splog

ASIFA EAST Memorial for Michael Sporn March 2, 2015 - Michael Sporn was one of the giants of the New York animation community. From 1980 until his untimely death last year, Michael Sporn’s studio produced many...
9 years ago
Philip Mershon's Felix In Hollywood

I Will Gladly Pay You Tuesday For A Hamburger Today...... - Why, you may ask, am I quoting the great J. Wellington Wimpy? Well kiddies, it's because I'm hear to talk about hamburgers.....sort of. But first, a ...
11 years ago
Mike Durrett: CONFIDENTIAL

Joe Biden: Truth Teller - "Joe Biden: There's Never Been a Day ... I've Been Proud to Be His Vice President" via YouTube God, I love the Internet.
12 years ago
Hollywood Dreamland

William Powell in Love Crazy (1941) - Sometimes I think Nick Charles gets too much credit. Oh, he’s my favorite character of the Golden Age, and can simply do no wrong, but I've been so "love c...
12 years ago
A Noodle In A Haystack

Not Goodbye - *cheery wave*This is not a depressing post. I'm not going to say that I've decided to move on with my life and leave the blog behind but I'll always have ...
12 years ago
Scenes from the Morgue: Retro-Pulp Movie Ads

Scenes from the Morgue :: Year II - When the calendar flipped over from April to May this little endeavor of blognuttery reached it's second anniversary milestone. Again, with my moth-to-an-a...
14 years ago
The Friends of Marty Melville

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