For 31 Days of Oscar, we're looking at Joan Crawford and how 'Mildred Pierce' marked a turning point in her career from being typecast in MGM roles to her glorious comeback role that ultimately earned her an Oscar for Best Actress.
In February 2023, TCM is shining a spotlight on screwball comedies, and so in this episode of Film 101, we're focusing on three from the charming duo of Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant--Bringing Up Baby (1938), Holiday (1938), and The Philadelphia Story (1940).
This January, TCM is shining a spotlight on car chases, and in this episode of Film 101, we're tracing the evolution of this particular set piece. Join us as we look at what Bullitt (1986), The French Connection (1971), and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) have to say about the characters behind the wheel.
Learn more about director Ida Lupino and how her final film, The Trouble with Angels (1966), may seem like a departure, but fits it nicely with the themes of her previous features.
Orson Welles' 1958 spellbinding noir 'Touch of Evil' has one of the most famous opening shots in cinema history. In this episode of Film 101, we breakdown the intricate continuous shot to point out how Welles lays the foundation for the rest of the movie in less than four minutes.
What was the Hollywood Blacklist? How did this dark chapter of Hollywood history unfold? In the first episode of our new YouTube series, Film 101, we take a look at who participated in blacklisting Hollywood talent, who fought back, and the lasting repercussions.
This was our line-up for the 2023 TCM Classic Film Festival. Be sure to check out some of the the…
In May 2023, TCM celebrates groundbreaking and visionary cinematographer James Wong Howe. For more on Howe, watch the new episode…
In May 2023, our Star of the Month is William Powell, the charming leading man of the Thin Man franchise,…
From sweltering skies to snow days and the storms in between, in May 2023, TCM is shining a spotlight on…
Over its 100-year history, Warner Bros. has worked with legendary filmmakers who have left their mark on the studio's history…
As Warner Bros. celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, in April 2023 we're taking a look at some of the…
It’s the Michael Bolton song at the wedding that really bumps it up a couple of stars for me.
The "World Without End" is a buffet of cheesy sci-fi charm delivered in glorious CinemaScope. Produced within the atomic age of film, this effort focuses on a retro-futuristic vision of the space travel, and its advantageous thought towards breaking the time/space barrier. As our astronauts blast off on their shiny metallic "Buck Rogers" spacecraft, they are spent hurdling through space, unknowingly landing on Earth in the year 2508. Once there they encounter giant rubber spiders, mutated cave men, and assorted…
World Without End stands out from much of its period genre peers by having relatively good production values. It was shot in CinemaScope, the "first science-fiction thriller." The Blu-Ray restoration I watched was so good the viewer could briefly make out some of the creatures' construction lines. Color was good, but not great, like several other movies of the time.
The story involves a crew of four American astronauts returning to Earth after completing the first expedition to Mars. They…
I'd never seen or heard of this one before- it was on a TCM "Sci-Fi Adventures" set I found at the library. A pleasant surprise, it turned out to be a solid sci-fi flick for the era with an able cast.
Starring Hugh Marlowe (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers) and Rod Taylor (The Time Machine).
What an eclectic crew too- Sam Peckinpah (as dialgoue director) and pin-up artist Alberto Vargas also worked on the…
Wow this is the most 1976 thing to ever exist. Within the first 40 seconds you can tell this was made in the year of our lord nineteen hundred and seventy six. Full of dystopia jumpsuits, laser guns, and cats. Michael York is a weird looking dude, probably not leading man material but I guess it works.
There were elements of Logan's Run that reminded me of Spielbergs classic sci-fi Minority Report. A man escaping his doomed destiny, turning friends into foes and wrongs into rights.
The futuristic setting has dated, but for the most part we get a strong series of action set pieces that like the aformentioned film - thrill and excite, whilst telling an intriguing story that constantly drives forward.
A couple of pacing issues present themselves toward the end but Logan's Run is a thought provoking, pleasant work from all involved.
My late grandmother only had a handful of English novels in her library - she rather read Dutch, her language. Many, many moons ago, I asked her why she had an English copy of On the Beach by Nevil Shute and she told me it belonged to my grandfather (whose most favorite book in the English language was a book with collected speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt). My grandfather always said the novel terrified him, according to my grandmother. I…
"No time to love, and nothing to remember. Nothing worth remembering."
Well, that's my heart in a million pieces on the floor.
So far, all of the "end of the world" films I've seen have been about characters who mourned their lives being cut short as they were aware of all they had to live for. Never had I seen a character shrug their shoulders and go, "well, it's all a bit shit anyway, right, this is hardly a surprise"…
