Another Old Movie Blog

To our American readers:  Happy Thanksgiving. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.  (As they say in Plymouth, Mass.)

I will be signing books and visiting with readers and shoppers at Blue Umbrella Books in Westfield on Saturday, December 3rd from 2 p.m. to...

It’s the idealism.   It’s the idealism (sometimes dismissed as propaganda, sometimes spurned as naiveté) that is most powerful about c...

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) is based on a true story.   In this season of Halloween, we note that the daffy and macabre comedy with ma...

There are two aspects that immediately grab the viewer: first, the sometimes extreme ugliness of the caricatured images of stars who...

Just a brief update today on some current events: First, for those who prefer to buy their books in bookstores and not online, a new...

Today we discuss an aspect of the inclusiveness of the classic film fan community which sometimes amazes me in the face of—what all clas...