Movies Is Good: NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK & AFRICA SCREAMS

by JB

As the poet says, as one actor leaves the stage, other actors come to take his place…

Celluloid Ramblings: The Music Box Steps

by JB

I have returned from Hell-A, having made a pilgrimage that had been on my “To Do” list for far too long.

Celluloid Ramblings from the Mysterious Pudatsa: STAN & OLLIE

by JB

“Two, Four, Six, Eight… Time to Transubstantiate!” -- Tom Lehrer

Back to 1955: The Seven Year Itch

by Heath Holland

In this week’s “Back to 1955,” we’re taking a look at the ground-breaking sex comedy that launched Marilyn Monroe’s star power into the stratosphere.

Cinema Bestius: The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush and I go waaaay back.

Cinema Bestius: Duck Soup

This film is like a comfortable pair of slippers… or a delicious cup of hot cocoa… if slippers and cocoa were hilarious and had a bunch of books written about them.

Smile Though Your Heart is Aching

by Melissa Uhrin

I look around me and everywhere I look I see the word (and its variations) LAUGH.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Last week I had the good fortune to attend a screening at the Music Box Theatre’s Second Annual 70mm Film Festival; they were showing a newly-struck, archival print of Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Wow.