Vincente Minnelli’s Metaphysical Musical

I’ve been thinking about Vincente Minnelli’s films a lot lately. It started around the holidays after I caught one of …

VINCENT PRICE & GENE TIERNEY: A DOOMED ROMANCE

This post was part of my month-long celebration of Vincent Price–TCM’s October Star of the Month in 2013. Throughout the …

June & July at the Movie Morlocks

I haven’t been online much the last few months for a number of reasons. First and foremost, I’ve been having …

A Tale of Two Films: THE PICASSO SUMMER (1969)

My latest post at the Movie Morlocks takes a look at the making of THE PICASSO SUMMER (1969) starring the fabulous Albert Finney & Yvette Mimieux. Here’s a brief excerpt from my post…

Vincente Minnelli’s Metaphysical Musical

Last week I had planned on writing about some romantic films in honor of Valentine’s Day but I never got …

Seduced by Pierre Clémenti

Pierre Clémenti in Listen, Let’s Make Love (1967) Regular Cinebeats’ readers are undoubtedly familiar with my fascination with the French …

Courage Conquers Death

Katharine Hepburn in Christopher Strong (1933) On Friday, August 20th, TCM is devoting the day to the celebrated actress Katharine …

The Subterraneans (1960)

Tomorrow would have been Jack Kerouac’s 88th birthday and in honor of the event I decided to write about the …

Modern Mondays: Love Songs (2007)

When I first mentioned that I was going to start “Modern Mondays” at Cinebeats I briefly discussed how much I …