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Mike's Waiting Room

The Place Where Jack Pendarvis has a "Blog"

Sunny and Red - The book (see yesterday’s “post”) did inform me that Nelson Eddy had a bodyguard named Red Boyles, which I found hilarious for reasons requiring, I believe...
22 hours ago
Tralfaz

Darkness Visible - Director Wilfred Jackson goes for dark-light visuals in a shoot-em-up scene in the Mickey Mouse cartoon *The Klondike Kid* (1932). Here’s an example from ...
22 hours ago
Cinema Retro

STREAMING REVIEW: "HOSTILE WITNESS" (1969) STARRING RAY MILLAND (AMAZON PRIME) - *By Lee Pfeiffer* Ray Milland was an Oscar-winning actor but most movie fans probably don't realize he was also a film director. His productions were gen...
1 day ago
Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation

31 Animated Features Are In This Year’s Oscar Race: Full List - The number of eligible films is two shy of last year's record 33 contenders.
1 day ago
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) at 50 - *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre *(1974; Tobe Hooper) never showed in my hometown when it was released in 1974. The closest it ever came was a hundred mil...
4 days ago
Greenbriar Picture Shows

How Long Will a Cutting Edge Still Cut? - Hep As Was and Maybe Still Is From Mark Vieira’s book, *Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950*, here is thought expressed by critic ...
5 days ago
Yowp

President Huck - How long have animated cartoon characters been “running” for the U.S. presidency? Well, Popeye and Bluto did. So did Betty Boop (as the crowd chanted her ...
1 week ago
Scared Silly: Classic Hollywood Horror-Comedies

BEN MODEL & STEVE MASSA KEEP CARRYING THE TORCH (AND FRANKENSTEIN RAKES!) FOR CLASSIC SILENT HORROR-COMEDIES! - Hello, Scared Silly fans! The spooky season is officially upon us and I thought I'd drop in to let you know what a couple of horror-comedy stalwarts have...
1 month ago
Out of the Past

New & Upcoming Classic Film Books (23) - I've returned with an exciting new edition to my classic film book round ups. Every time I curate these lists I worry that this will be the one that disapp...
4 months 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...
5 months ago
Classic Television Showbiz

An Interview with Peggy Webber - Part One - *Peggy Webber: You have Bob Denver on your shirt.* *Kliph Nesteroff: Yes, Gilligan’s Island.* *Peggy Webber: Was he a friend of yours?Kliph Nesteroff:...
1 year 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
filmicability with Dean Treadway

The Best Films of 2018 - My 2018 Ballot for The Georgia Film Critics Association: (composed December 2018) Georgia critics' WINNERS HIGHLIGHTED IN BOLD TYPE Best Picture 1. A STAR ...
5 years ago
If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Facsimile Podcast #32: The Act of Seeing Series 1, Episode 10: Je vous salue, Marie (Jean-Luc Godard; 1968) - This week on *The Act of Seeing* . . . Preliminaries: Twitter nonsense/Hal Hartley/Starting the show . . . A discussion of Jean-Luc Godard's *Je vous sal...
6 years ago
MovieMorlocks.com

Jean Harlow, Mary Dees, and SARATOGA - I watched SARATOGA again last night for the first time in years and still found it very depressing. It is so sad to watch Harlow, clearly weak and listless...
6 years ago
davekehr.com

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

By: anybunny.mobi/latest/ - anybunny.mobi/latest/ anybunny.mobi/latest/
7 years ago
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
DECAYING HOLLYWOOD MANSIONS

The Erotic Misery of The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957) -
8 years ago
Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy

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
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

Thunderbolt And Lightfoot 1974 - From my copy of the New York Daily News, dated Aug. 9, 1974, comes this ad for "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot." *(Click on image to enlarge; once open, you m...
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,...
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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She Blogged By Night

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This Was Cinerama

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Pretty Clever Films

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