Sometimes Movie World seems to throw us hints.

There once was an actress named Vivian Blaine who, in 1978, flew in as a guest star on that Aaron Spelling plane… In one of her many later appearances, Vivian Blaine soars in a mother of the …

You’ve never heard the word, “like” so much in your life.

Back to Tom’s door. If anyone is just coming in, here’s Part One. Now, on to the conclusion… The final straw came right before my last semester. After a bad breakup I needed a fri…

Ever had a memory so intense that you didn’t know what to do with it? Well, here are some of mine, and to put it succinctly, these memories have shaped a big part of my adult life. I know thi…

Seven days to go, people. One week. Are you all ready? As usual, if anyone would like to join us, all the particulars can be found here. And if anyone is wondering if it’s too late to join be…

Who hasn’t at least heard of Ina Garten’s cooking show, The Barefoot Contessa? No offense to any fans of hers, but I think Garten is overrated. She’s not a nice person from what I…

I miss Mel Blanc.

Gangplank marriages were a pretty common feature during the Second World War, with couples marrying in haste and possibly repenting at leisure.

I recognize that rusty ladder.

There’s nothing quite like the agony of regretting missed opportunity.

Sul sul! Who likes playing the Sims? I sure do. Yeah, I’m almost fifty, but there’s something about escaping into that comparatively rose-y world and engineering it to my liking, right …

As we’ve all heard by now, Dolly Parton has passed away at the age of eighty. Personally, I was shocked when I found out and had to take a minute because I honestly didn’t believe it. M…

Sophie, Coco, Jane and Mel have been friends for most of their lives.

At the risk of being Captain Obvious, life always surprises us.

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s novels seem to be required reading for many Americans just for the sheer love of it.

COVID is still fresh in a lot of minds, and we’ve all been affected differently by it over the past two years. We’ve also reacted differently to continued measures and actions by those …

Has anyone ever done a blogathon about Vivian Blaine? I don’t know, but if not, how about we change all that? For those of you who might not be familiar with her, Vivian Blaine was known as &…

Happy sigh… One of my favorite Jane Austen’s novels, Northanger Abbey, is a departure from what we know of the Austen canon. Money isn’t an issue. Women possibly losing their home…

Gotta hand it to Netflix for their impeccable timing.

There’s a ton of buzz right now over Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and it hasn’t been good.

There’s so much legend surrounding George Washington.

George Michael Cohan will always be known as The Man Who Owns Broadway, and James Cagney will always be the man who immortalized The Man Who Owns Broadway in 1942 film, Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Much, much worse. Beware of spoilers.

It's the Ramones, man.

Olá, Luso… Just when I feel as if I’ve seen everything from Miss Carmen Miranda, another new offering of hers pops up, Same thing with Betty Grable. I’ve been wanting to see 1942&…

Weather is a big deal.

Singin’ In the Rain, of course, is one of the quintessential films of cinema history, and one of the amazing things about this 1952 movie is how well-known it is without being cliched.

Idiocy abounds.

A lot of us bloggers have been saying that we need more blogathons, and I couldn’t agree more, so here’s one of my ideas: The It Grew On Me Blogathon! Got a movie or a TV show that you …

I know I’m not alone in my hope that Hollywood will start making romcoms again.

It’s always fun to get oversold. Heh. 2017’s Dark House looks like a clever indie horror film on the line of The Blair Witch Project, even though it’s overwrought, boring, and muc…

I've had two years to grow claws, Mother. Jungle Red!

There is definitely hope for Hollywood, and the ironically and aptly-named Project Hail Mary is one such vehicle that’s swooping in to save the day.

American International Pictures certainly released their share of horror films, and while camp was generally the thing, mediocrity could be as well, and one of their less-than-great films was 1962&…

It was finally time to watch this movie.

(And why for the rest of Hollywood, all is not lost.)

Glowing reviews can often be the hardest to write, and when I watched Paul McCartney: Man On the Run I didn’t know where to begin talking about it because I honestly didn’t want it it end.

It’s such a cliche among writers and would-be writers that we should write what we know, but it really is true.

Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past…

When Barb goes ice fishing at a remote lake in an attempt to revive some old memories, she doesn’t anticipate getting caught up in a kidnapping scheme that will, if all goes as planned, rob an innocen...

It’s amazing what travel can unearth in us.

Elvis has entered the building, and he’s twenty feet tall in more ways than one.

It’s kind of hard to believe that some Agatha Christie stories are better than others, and The Seven Dials, which was originally published in 1929, is considered one of her more minor works.

At first glance, Wuthering Heights seems to recall the kind of romances we hardly ever see anymore in Hollywood outside of a Shakespeare movie.