Posted by Bacall on January 26, 2010
Just watched an obscure, but very good movie, “The Goddess,” (1958). TCM featured some films which used the “method” acting this month, and this is one of them. What on earth is method acting? Basically this type of acting...
Posted by Jon on January 12, 2010
By Jon Ortiz
Forgive me. There will be no steamy Penthouse letter experience here, despite the horribly misleading title, this will bore you. Remember the 1981 cult classic Clash of Titans ? The fantasy flick based on the myth of Perseus? ...
Posted by Bacall on January 4, 2010
Lately I’ve been thinking of stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood who are still with us. Believe it or not, there are quite a few. I don’t like thinking of them leaving us one day soon. To think of them still around, makes me feel...
Posted by Bacall on December 13, 2009
Have you ever come across someone in your life who is just so full of bitterness that all they say or touch is miserable? And you wonder, what made someone like this? The Pawnbroker, (1964) tells a story of just such a person. Sol Nazerman played...
Posted by Bacall on November 16, 2009
I’ve met many a fem fatales in film noir, but I think I met the absolute worst one on record. The film noir is titled, “Too Late for Tears,” (1949). Lizabeth Scott and Arthur Kennedy play Jane and Alan Palmer a middle class...