txfilmfan wrote: ↑December 24th, 2023, 5:41 pm one of the biggest disappointments for me in the last 20 years was the sluggish Turkey Lurkey Time from the Promises, Promises revival.

”Marrriiiia, I JUST HATE that girl playing Maria….”

(Edit: I have no opinion on the remake of West side story. Other than it was unnecessary.)

Is Marie’s cheesecake no bake?

I watched as much of THE TRIUMPH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, a BRITISH PRODUCTION from 1935, as I could stand. It was on that certain cable network and i'd never heard of it. lucky me. I have a sneaking suspicion that the titular triumph involved him boring every one of his costars into a FUGUE STATE and th...

JUST TO TACK ON, I recall seeing MICKEY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL on the big screen at a PACKED SATURDAY MATINEE ca. 1984. Granted, it's been four(ish) decades since, but I recall a decided shift in the mood of the room after "THE COFFIN ERUPTING WITH THE FIRES OF HELL" scene. God, I miss the cin...

sorry, got a little sidetracked talking abou t THE DARKNESS. Don't feel bad about getting into it with DOBBSEY, MR. INTERNATIONAL- he was a PRICKLY PEAR. One thing I miss a lot about YE OLDE MESSAGEBOARDES were the genuinely insane people i got to witness at a safe distance, like THE MARIE OSMOND FA...

Since Lorna and Tiki have made a go of it telling personal stories of their movie journeys, I guess I might as well join in. My name is Brendan. I was born in 1995, which means that I am pretty close to being the baby of the board (I think NickandNora and LostHorizons are both a year younger). I ca...

. By the time I was a teenager, I fell in love with the movies of the 1970s (the writing, the acting, the overall aesthetic for lack of a better word.) I also loved the the 1930s and 1940s as well as the 1960s (so many fun movies from that decade). I also loved silent movies. But the American movie...

I know the feeling of being a jinx. For a while, I had the habit of thinking of something relating to a few people and then found out they had died. JSuch was the case with Sidney Lumet, Peter Falk, Marvin Hamlisch, Celeste Holm, and a few others.... in the .00000001 in eighty-thousandgooglebillion...

posted because, WHY NOT?

For a while I wondered if somehow I had something to do with Ann Reinking's death. I watched Annie and then the next day I learned that she died. I've had that happen too. Also there was one time not too long ago where I was driving and THE PRETENDERS were playing on three different SIRIUS stations...

SEVEN????
Lord have mercy.

IN RE: FILMS OF THE 1970'S V. FILMS OF THE 1980S I was born in 1978 and came of age in the 80's and 90's, where i went to the movies verrrry regularly. when i became a classic movie fan, I SPECIFICALLY BYPASSED FILMS OF THE 1970S and instead gravitated towards the 30s and 40s and 50s... it wasn't un...

it's been long enough since RYAN O'NEAL passed (two weeks?), I'll post this now:

this mentioning of WILLIAM HURT has reminded me of an amusing anecdote from my childhood in NORTH CAROLINA. In the year 1985, I would have been about 8 years old, and I was a child with who was VERY VERY VERY INTO SPOOKY STUFF[ /b], especially CAMPY SPOOKY STUFF and when I saw the title and newspap...