Edward D. Wood Jr. (a.k.a. Ed Wood) has been labeled ‘The Worst Director of All Time.’ Yet the Grade-Z auteur whose credits include Plan 9 from Outer Space is now a cult favorite.
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Edgar G. Ulmer movies on TCM: ‘The Black Cat’ & ‘Detour’ Turner Classic Movies’ June 2017 Star of the Month is Audrey Hepburn, but Edgar G. Ulmer is its film…
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The movies’ top 5 Scariest Living Dead: Sex plus greed among ghosts, ghouls and vampires from Max Schreck to NOT Robert Pattinson.
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Carla Laemmle. ‘Dracula’ 1931 actress Carla Laemmle dead at 104 Carla Laemmle, a bit player in a handful of silent movies and at the dawn of the sound era –…
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San Francisco with Jeanette MacDonald and Clark Gable Brad Bird’s film adaptation of James Dalessandro’s novel 1906, about San Francisco at the time of the 1906 earthquake, will definitely not…
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He Who Gets Slapped with Lon Chaney Lon Chaney is one of the most fascinating movie stars in film history. Throughout the 1920s, Chaney was one the biggest box office…
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Groucho Marx, Thelma Todd in Norman Z. McLeod’s Monkey Business It’s Thelma Todd day on Turner Classic Movies. As part of TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” series, about a dozen…
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Ninotchka with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
The Birds poster: Universal Studios horror. Universal Studios horror: Alfred Hitchcock & James Whale + ‘Tarantula’ Academy screenings As part of the year-long celebration of Universal Pictures’ centenary, the Academy…
Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi horror classics “With a few exceptions,” wrote Andrew Sarris in You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet, “The Bride of Frankenstein represented the last gasp of the…