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 … More

Bad Movie Mothers We Love to Hate

TCM is celebrating Mother’s Day (Note: this was originally published in 2014) with a great program of classic films showcasing … More

Maybe it was the Hollywood homes featured in my last post or the ongoing worldwide celebration of Orson Welles 100th … More

Film buffs tend to have obsessions. We fuss and fawn over particular actors and directors while attempting to see everything … More

Tod Browning’s DRACULA (1931) is rightly hailed as a horror classic while the Spanish-language version directed by George Melford was … More

Jennifer’s gone missing. She was supposed to be looking after her uncle’s sprawling estate, which appears to have been abandoned … More

Ray Milland sees dead people. Or to be more precise, Ray Milland begins seeing the ghost of his dead daughter … More

ON VAMPYRES AND OTHER SYMPTOMS (2011) is the clever title of a new documentary directed by Celia Novis focusing on the … More

The legend of Faust is one of the oldest occult tales in the Western world. This German fable has been … More