April is shaping up to be a bang-up month for pre-Code fanatics– finally. Sometimes we get our moments. A new book on pre-Code, Forbidden Hollywood: When Sin Ruled the Movies is now on sale. Mark Vieira’s update to his seminal Sin in Soft Focus is a gorgeous tome, filled with Read more…
The 31 Days of Oscar is over, so let the good times roll! There’s a ton of great pre-Codes showing in February of all shapes in sizes. Feeling like a ton of Fredric March dramas? Got ’em– he’s star of the month! Constance Bennett weepies? Oh yeah. Weird-ass musical fever Read more…
Hey hey, ho ho, it’s … 31 Days of Oscar on TCM, which means that pre-Code content is slim. There’s quality, but I mean– there’s not a single pre-Code on the network until the 7th. Really, the only good news in the pipe is that the Criterion Channel launches on Read more…
It’s a new year! I guess that’s a good thing. I doubt– I hope– this year is one filled with better news. Find Convention City! Sort out the mess with Letty Lynton! Someone with some sense start cranking out the pre-Codes from the Fox and Universal vaults! And while I Read more…
pic.twitter.com/FDiKBB4NQK — Pre-Code.com (@PreCodeDotCom) November 30, 2018 So Filmstruck is gone. I’m a little misty, a lot angry, and terribly, terribly tired. I eulogized it last month, and November was a bevvy of frustrations as people scrambled to both mourn and save the service. Tens of thousands of people signed Read more…
For those of you who haven’t heard, Warner Media announced they are shutting down Filmstruck effective November 29th. Executives claim it’s part of their desire to eliminate ‘niche’ products and focus on more mainstream stuff like grown men dressing like rodents and Eddie Redmayne cacking up as many films as Read more…
Happy October, everyone! Not a whole lot to note for the month, so I’ll keep this short and sweet. Lots of rare pre-Codes on TCM this month; no Universal Monster Movies from the pre-Code era. Still, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Island of Lost Souls, two of the craziest Read more…
Howdy, everybody. Things are looking up in September. We may no longer have Summer Under The Stars (and, again, where was my Leo Gorcey day?), but TCM still has a number of great themes coming up. Oh, and Dean Martin movies, too. (I’m not the only one who thinks that’s Read more…
Welcome to the dog days of August. The good news is, of course, TCM’s annual Summer Under the Stars is back. (This also coincides exactly with the end of summer reading at my library– woo hoo, days off.) While there are some strange selections (only one pre-Code movie for Gable Read more…
And it’s July! Wow, 2018 sometimes goes fast, sometimes it goes slow, and sometimes I often wish I were dead. But I have movies in the meantime, and that’s good enough for me. The most important, special news is that it’s Barnes & Noble sale time for all your Criterion Read more…