Spike Lee criticized legendary actor and director Clint Eastwood for not depicting blacks in both his world war II films, “Flags of Our fathers,” and “Letters From Iwo Jima.” He came short of calling Eastwood a racist. Here are the facts according to Wikipedia there were about 900 black soldiers in Iwo Jima, accounting for about .8% of the total American soldiers. The platoons were segregated. As far as I am...

Why do you love Turner Classic Movie Channel? See why this blogger from tvsquad.com thinks TCM is the best thing since pizza and beer! I remember when I lived in NYC I had to wait until Friday nights to watch a classic movie on PBS, that was a treat. When I finally got cable I’d watch hours on American Movie Classic channel before they ruined it with commercials and awful movies. How dare they call movies like “Halloween,” classic?...

This totally freaked me out. See this 1950′s commercial with The Flintstones promoting cigarette smoking. Can you imagine a cartoon today pushing Cigarette smoking? Apparently, it wasn’t a problem back in the fifties. Ah, but notice how they let the ladies do “men’s work,” while they puffed away. I guess some things were moving forward. I wonder how many kids started to smoke on account of Fred and Barney?...

There is nothing new under the sun. History did not start when I was born. These are the thoughts that ran through my head as I watched “Marijuana” (1936) also known as “Marijuana-The Devil’s Weed.” Circa 1930’s at the height of Prohibition, a group of teenagers frequent a jazz club, where illicit drinking and other vices occur each night. A couple of drug dealers notice the teenagers drinking and decide to introduce them to...

I remember being a kid in school and watching Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 French short, “The Red Balloon.” Ah, I can still hear the projector reeling in magic into my heart. If you didn’t go to school back in the sixties and seventies you probably don’t even know what I am talking about. The film tells a story of a little boy who becomes friends with a balloon, trains it, and the balloon takes on a life of its own. It...