Back in the day—way, way back in the day, in 1960—I first saw It Happened One Night, at age 15 on a 17-inch TV. When the walls of Jericho finally fell, I wondered to myself “Well, since they know how to make good movies, why aren’t they all like this?” Forty-nine years later, I’m still ... read more »

By now, if you haven’t seen I Love You, Man, you probably aren’t going to. Suffice to say, it’s quite funny—better, in my opinion, than Superbad, and exactly like Superbad in that it ends with two totally hetero dudes, Peter (Paul Rudd) and Sidney (Jason Segal) telling each other, well, “I love you, man.” Once ... read more »

Mark Harris at Slate has the word on the Warner Archive Collection. For only $19.95, Warner will burn a DVD just for you, from its “not released on DVD” list. You can see, among other things, Robert Altman’s crappiest film, Countdown (1968), which Mark describes as “a dull moon-landing thriller in which the sets look ... read more »

So far, by far, Sam Rubin, KTLA TV/Los Angeles, who turned in this blurb for Hannah Montana, The Movie: “So far, by far, the best movie of the year.” And, I’m guessing, Sam, you’re not even a 13-year-old girl!

Granted, “chihuahua” is a difficult word of many of us to decode. Excuse me for not reading Inca! Or Aztec, or Mayan, or whatever. So it’s not too surprising that advertisements for Beverly Hills Chihuahua offer a phonetic spelling—“cheé-wow-wä,” to be precise—along with two pictures of the damn critters. But why do they put an ... read more »

Ever see the flick about the young Parisian car thief who steals an American convertible, find a gun in the glove compartment, kills a guy, and goes down for it? How about the one about a young couple who are car thieves, get involved in murder, and fantasize about dying together with their pictures all ... read more »

The New York Times, out to prove that it can still rock your world, cranks out a trés fabulous neo-geological time chart of boxoffice receipts from 1986 to the present. The graphic, which looks like striated taffy, is color-coded to show each film’s total receipts. And it’s even adjusted for inflation! Height shows weekly receipts, ... read more »

Strange Wilderness, in case you were too busy exploring the lesser treasures of the noir canon to notice, is this flick about these guys who go looking for Bigfoot. “garrettlarson2” of Lethbridge, Alberta explains it all for you: A Cult favorite- or at least if you liked grandmas boy You’ll love this I just went ... read more »

No, your eyes don’t deceive you. That’s Jayne Mansfield handing out the summons, circa 1962, apparently in promotion of something called Charles Brown’s Court Corps. Want some more of that? (Do I have to ask?) Then go straight to the source, the U.S. Library of Congress! Check out their query page here and search your ... read more »

Don’t get me wrong. Charlie Sellon was no Edna Mae Oliver. His Betsy Trotwood in the 1931 Broadway production of David Copperfield helped sink that ill-fated production like a stone. But when it came to waving a shotgun, old Charlie took second place to no one, not even old Edna Mae. Sellon’s scattergun histrionics are ... read more »