G-Men (retro trailer)
We catch a glimpse of a cinema marquee showing this 1935 classic in the trailer for Clint Eastwood’s new FBI flick J. Edgar…
1930s
Frankenstein (1931 retro trailer)
In which women but not men are shocked into uncontrolled hysteria!
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Let’s Kill Hitler”
After a few days to digest this and multiple viewings to comfirm my feelings about this episode, I am sad to say that it treads dangerously close to a point at which I want to disavow it as “real” Doctor Who and start pretending that it doesn’t “count.”
The King’s Speech (review)
When Colin Firth wins the Oscar for Best Actor in a few hours for this role, it will be one of the rare happy concurrences of the actual best performance of the year being recognized by the industry’s highest honor as such.
watch it: 1930s Essex Terraplane car ad
At first I thought, “Those 1930s people were weird, with their ads you had to read.” And then came the foolish stunt with the airplane. Now that’s American advertising!
watch it: “Clothing Of The Future – Clothing in The Year 2000”
Ladies! Time to update your wardrobes! But sexism never goes out of style! Did you get your maid to change the sleeves on your dress before you went out tonight?
retro trailer: ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’
Take a look back at an old trailer… England! It looks remarkably like Southern California! But never mind: Look, it’s Errol Flynn! With a little moustache! As the mightiest adventurer ever! *swoon* Makes me think of that Jimmy Buffett song: That’s why I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache the Boston Blackie kind, or a … more…
watch it: 1939 Chevrolet ad, in Technicolor!
This predates commercial television, and certainly color television, so this must have been shown at the movies: YouTube poster steviebboy69 makes an excellent point: Dad’s in a suit and tie, and Mom has on a dressy dress and chic hat. Are they dressed up to go see the grandparents or are they dressed up to … more…
Public Enemies (review)
I’m wildly intrigued by *Public Enemies* even though I readily concede that character development is all but nonexistent, and that it leaves me more wanting to know who notorious bank robber John Dillinger was than I did before I went into the film.
Easy Virtue (review)
If Noel Coward had written *Meet the Parents,* it might look something like this: witty and wise and totally lacking in poop jokes.
