24 Frames: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957)

The high point in the film’s satiric vision of corporate upward mobility comes toward the end of the film, in the scenes in which Rockwell receives his promotions — first to vice president and then to president. These scenes parody status panic and the success ethic at its most exaggerated. When Rock first sees his

Professor Ed Avery’s Cortizone-Fueled, Bigger-Than-Life, Super Big Gulp-Sized Summer Movie Quiz

1) Depending on your mood, your favorite or least-loved movie cliché 2) Regardless of whether or not you eventually caught up with it, which film classic have you lied about seeing in the past? 3) Roland Young or Edward Everett Horton?Em toda sua lubitschiana glória 4) Second favorite Frank Tashlin movie 5) Clockwork Orange– yes

Professor Fate’s Spring-Loaded, Great-Racing Spring Break Movie Quiz

1) William Demarest or Broderick Crawford? 2) What movies improve when seen in a state of altered consciousness? Todos? 3) Favorite studio or production company logo? 4) Celeste Holm or Joan Blondell? 5) What is the most overrated “classic” film? Todos, nada criado pelo ser humano vale suficientemente a pena. Embora não lembre de nenhum

Cem anos de Errol Flynn – Parte 2

13- Meu Reino por um Amor (The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Michael Curtiz, 1939)É nesse filme que consta o famoso tapão na cara que Davis deu em Flynn durante uma cena, aquela expressão de indignação era real. Os chefes dos estúdios eram umas belezinhas, neste caso, Jack Warner mesmo sabendo da falta de

Centenário de Joan Blondell