"Insanity runs in my family... it practically gallops." I've covered the great Cary Grant comedy Bringing Up Baby in a previou...

I think we can all agree that Legend of the 7 Golden Lawrence of Arabias (American title: 7 Arabs vs. Dracula ) would be an awesome movie...

One of the most enduring of all movie classics, Casablanca is the kind of a film that finds a way to stand out, even amongst a catalog of s...

Well this is certainly an intimidating one, isn't it? What more could I possibly add that hasn't already been said? You will, I trus...

When it comes to film comedies of the "golden age" of Hollywood, I usually go in for the classic comedy teams--Marx Brothers, Laur...

Out of the Past (1947) Director: Jacques Tourneur Runtime: 97 minutes As the credits came up on Out of the Past , I thought to myself...

When I started this blog 11 months ago, it was devoted to a project called "The Great Unwatched," the goal of which was to watch 4...

My next film is certainly something that might be more typical for me to write about, given that I run a blog called The Vault of Horror . I...

The 1930s musicals of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers will always hold a special place in my heart. Believe it or not, before our hyper-sensi...

I had the curious fortune to see James Cameron's Avatar and Neill Blomkamp's District 9 within days of one another. While I'...

Black Dynamite is the spiritual sibling (one might even say "soul brotha") of 2007's double-feature experiment Grindhouse , ...

This is probably going to be one of the lesser-known films of this series, but it belongs nevertheless. From the first time I saw it at a sp...

William Wellman's masterpiece The Public Enemy is not simply an excellent gangster movie. It is the gangster movie; that is to say, it ...

To give you an idea of how truly amazing Charles Chaplin's City Lights is, Orson Welles--the man who made Citizen Kane--considered it hi...