The lovely Yvonne De Carlo, who is most famous for her role in the sitcom The Munsters, died Monday in Los Angeles of natural causes at the age of 84. Goodby...

No, this is not the 1977 Carrie with Sissy Spacek. The name is the only thing these films have in common. The 1952 Carrie is about a naive small town girl who moves in with her sister with the hope for a better life in nineteenth century Chicago. While on her trip to the big city she meets a man (Charles Drouet) on the train; a fast talking, hyper, full-of-crap type of individual. Well it doesn’t take long for “fast...

The Independent Film Channel will premier “The Grind House” every Friday at midnight. Films that are of “exploitation, action, horror, cult classic, some terrible taste & and incredible movies you won’t see anywhere else,” will be featured. It sounds a little like TCM’s Underground, don’t you think? “The Grind House” will premier on January 5 at midnight. The ones I found...

Chevy Chase will be TCM’s guest programmer on 1/15. The actor, comedian and writer will tell us his favorite classic movies and why he picked them. I was a little surprised by the star’s picks with the exception of one. First up is David Lean’s “Lawrence Of Arabia“ (1962). According to TCM’s Now Playing magazine, Chase feels this film to be “One of the greatest films,” because of the...

“Casablanca“ was rated #1 movie ever by British MP’s. The survey was conducted on 175 MP’s some being liberal and others conservative. It is like Rick (Humphrey Bogart) said in the movie, “The beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Finally both liberals and conservatives have some common ground. And the fact that this movie is a wartime flick is even more amazing that both groups find it to be “the...