Movies in Our Time - On sale!

Movies in Our Time - On sale!

November 29, 2018
Movies in Our Time

A holiday shopping announcement! Now through December 31st, the eBook version of my collection of essays on classic film, Movies in Our Time...

An Underdog Thanksgiving

An Underdog Thanksgiving

November 22, 2018
cartoons, Lionel Barrymore

When I was a child, I was a big fan of "ace reporter" Sweet Polly Purebread.  As an adult, I occasionally find myself singing the ...

The Desperate Hours - 1955

The Desperate Hours - 1955

November 15, 2018
Arthur Kennedy, Beverly Garland, Dewey Martin, Humphrey Bogart, Martha Scott, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton, The Desperate Hours, Walter Baldwin, Whit Bissell, William Wyler

The Desperate Hours (1955) brought the escaped convict genre to suburbia. That’s where everyone else was headed in the 1950s, and the house ...