Real Life Stuff
Merry Christmas(-ish)!
Taking a week off for travel. Happy holidays out there, bloggers, readers and friends! – Danny
Film Festivals and Screenings
Barbara Stanwyck at the Film Forum in December 2013!
Good news for anyone in the New York City area: this month the Film Forum is dedicating itself to showing 42 films of the magnificent Barbara Stanwyck. This includes a lot of her pre-Code work, like a double feature of The Miracle Woman and The Bitter Tea of General Yen Read more…
Film Festivals and Screenings
Tough Dames in Satin Slips in D.C.!
Attention all readers in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area! At the Hill Center in Abraham Lincoln Hall for the next three weeks, there’s a series of showings of classic pre-Code movies called Tough Dames in Satin Slips. The showings include a discussion led by Neil Minow of Movie Mom and independent Read more…
1930
The Unholy Three (1930) Review, with Lon Chaney and Lila Lee
Professor Echo … Lon Chaney Harry Earles … Twiddledee Hercules … Ivan Linow Rosie … Lila Lee Hector … Elliot Nugent The Prosecutor … John Miljan Proof That It’s Pre-Code The film opens with a dancer who “broke the sultan’s thermometer!” The fat lady has not seen her “… feet!” Read more…
TCM Schedules
Pre-Code Movies on TCM in November 2013 and Other Site News
So the big news I’m going to kick this post off with doesn’t actually involve movies, but my own personal fortunes: I will be moving in late December/mid January to Japan. My wife’s job has transferred, so that means I will be transitioning to unemployment, finishing up a semester of Read more…
TCM Schedules
Pre-Code Movies on TCM in October 2013 and Other Site News
Ah, October. Here in California, that can only mean one thing: rain! Beautiful sweet rain! Living in a desert sucks sometimes, I swear. Oh, but it also means horror movies and stuff. While pre-Code horror movies rely a great deal less on gore and strangely persistent video cameras than most Read more…
TCM Schedules
Pre-Code Movies on TCM in September 2013 and Other Site News
I sometimes get worried that my site is too stuffy, what with it being 99% reviews of movies that were made several decades before my readership was born. I wanted to try my hand at being a little more cordial, so I’m going to try a post with this month’s Read more…
Real Life Stuff
A Late Liebster
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks for me between my grad school semester wrapping up, work, my wife’s trip to China, family issues, Roger Ebert’s passing, travel, and my pervasive drinking problem, but, on top of that, I was also given a Liebster Award from Karen over at Shadows Read more…
Film Festivals and Screenings
Toronto Film Society Pre-Code Weekend, May 10th Through May 12th, 2013
Hey! If you visit this site and live in the city of Toronto, you’ll be probably be interested to know that the Toronto Film Society is doing a series on Pre-Code films May 10th to the 12th at the Carlton Cinema (map). The Toronto Film Society Pre-Code Festival looks like Read more…
Real Life Stuff
Ebert
I’m about halfway through the bottle of wine. I promised myself that when I went the solo route with blogging that I would attempt to make it more personal, and when the news broke about the death of Roger Ebert earlier today, I knew I’d either have to fulfill that Read more…