Brace yourself.          Because I’m going to violate the one rule I established for myself when I created this column.   Just this once.   I just wanted to tell you that up front, in the spirit of full disclosure.       That rule, of course, that first promise I made to you way back in January in [...]

Assuming we define a “B” movie as a movie with a very low budget, perhaps without a lot of star power, and possibly featuring some of the cheesiest dialogue and acting you are ever likely to see, it is amazing how these cheap little films which are so definitively bad can wind up being so astoundingly good.

Some movies are cursed. Some actors are cursed. Natalie Wood makes both lists.

      If you’re like me, you get annoyed when the titles of two movies are almost exactly—and sometimes even exactly exactly—the same.           Happens all the time.   For example, in 1998 the action-hero actor Steven Seagal made a movie called “The Patriot” (a strange, bio-toxic thriller that didn’t match the title at all), and then two [...]

Somebody out there will also like this sterling review by the Dr. of Filmology, Brad Eastland. “Somebody” stars a raw, primitive Paul Newman and features the big screen debuts of several top actors. How’s George C. Scott, Robert Duvall, and Steve McQueen for starters?

As you stare with either envy or open-mouthed wonder at the picture of the beautiful girl above (depending on if you are a woman or a man), I am pleased to announce that this week’s forgotten old film that we need to explore and examine and otherwise obsess over is called “Don’t Make Waves”. It came out n 1967, stars Tony Curtis, and is directed by Alexander Mackendrick.

      Sometimes movies are personal.       And that’s a good thing.   After all, isn’t that the whole point of motion picture entertainment?—to allow us to escape into another world, a world less bland, predictable, and humdrum than our own?       You bet’cha.   And it’s great when something personal like a good old movie can take you totally [...]

Lincoln’s birthday passed last Friday. Our Dr. of Ancient Filmology did not let it pass, however, without having us remember the movie Prince of Players, which refers to none other than Edwin Booth, the most famous actor of his day and also the brother of Lincoln assasin John Wilkes Booth.