This entry is for the 6th Golden Boy Blogathon hosted by Ginnie from The Wonderful World of Cinema and yours truly! In 1950, Mr. William Holden just became a superstar with his breakout role as Joe Gillis in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd. One would think a slew of immediate hits would follow, but they actually slowly trickled in, and Bill didn’t receive his next major movie until reuniting with Wilder for his Oscar winning role in 1953’s Stalag 17. During that three year period, Bill did have steady work and even one hit with 1950’s Born Yesterday (which got Oscar noms including best picture and ..read more

HELLO ALL AND WELCOME! Welcome to the place to celebrate Mr. William Franklin Beedle Jr (aka Holden!) and all his glory as a performer. I, Emily of the Blog The Flapper Dame will be your host for day 1, April 16 and my fabulous co-host and genius creator of the Blogathon, Ginnie of The Wonderful World of Cinema will be your host tomorrow on April 17 (Bill’s actual birthday!). Just leave your post in comments, sit back, relax and enjoy the 2 days that we honor Hollywood’s Golden Boy. Today’s Entries: Whimsically Classic takes a stroll down Sunset Blvd (1950), Bill’s second breakout hit after 1 ..read more

This post was written for The Second Master of Suspense Blogathon hosted by Classic TV and Film When watching movies these days, there are many options: phone, laptop, tablet, TV screen. TV screen is probably my most common method, but the best method is still the old fashioned way: Movie theater setting on a big screen. Thanks to living in the Chicagoland area, I have opportunities to see films on the big screen from a few different places. My personal preference is the Pickwick theater in Park Ridge, IL, and thanks to Fathom events, movies will screen straight at the local movie theater abo ..read more

This entry is for the Mis-Matched Couples Blogathon hosted by Realweegie Midget Reviews and Cinematic Catharsis. It runs from March 29-31 2024. Music entered my life as early as it possibly could. Adopted at age of 1, my world became rock n’ roll and full of legendary music. I’m talking 70’s hard rock, Disney standards, mixed in with The Wizard of Oz (1939) soundtrack. My toddler years were Kiss fan made VHS tapes, Def Leppard interviews, AC/DC Stuff Upper Lip tour updates on VH1, and plenty of Disney movie marathons. Full House reruns in my elementary years were watching Nick@Nite with Uncle ..read more

Our Souls at Night (2017) is kind of a new type of rom-com: a romance for elderly adults 70+. Directed by Ritesh Batra, it’s the story of two neighbors who are both widowed, and despite not knowing each other well, agree to sleep with each other at night for comfort to avoid loneliness. Right from the start of the film, it’s posed as a question by Addie (Jane Fonda) to Louis (Robert Redford). Agreeing to the condition, the two gradually fall in love despite all the entanglements they encounter such as health issues, age stigma, and family problems. Because the movie stars long time on-screen ..read more

Starring Zac Efron in the title role, Charlie St. Cloud is a 2010 supernatural dramatic romance about a young man’s second chance at life. Charlie dreams of being a professional sailor and has an adoring mother (Kim Basinger), but his goals come crashing down when he and his little brother Sam (Charlie Tahon) get into a car accident. While Sam dies, Charlie lives after being brought back from the dead by paramedic Florio (Ray Liotta), who believes there are no lost causes and second chances happen for a reason. As a result of being revived, Charlie is given the gift of being able to ..read more

Real Weegie Midget has nominated me for 2 sunshine blogger awards! And even though the one is from August 2023, I still wanted to do them! The other is from late 2023/ early 2024. So here are the questions and my answers ( I’m not a fan of passing chain things on, but I always will answer the questions if someone passes it to me!) In leiu of 11 nominees, I’m gonna list 11 questions at the end, and anyone who wants to answer is welcome to answer! Thanks so much Gil times two for both awards and people, check out her website! It’s a real place to be if you love films and movies of any kind and a ..read more

When you’re a child and a teen, chances are you’re prone to watching a boatload of garbage movies. Sometimes it’s due to limited selection, or sometimes it’s due to the fact you are unaware other options are out there. I honestly believe being born in the 90’s and having a childhood of the 2000s/ early 2010s, I was subjected to the height of the kid/ teen movie market. While that was amusing, it was also over-saturated. I watched far too many wasteful movies, and I apologize to my mother who had to watch a majority of them with my sister and I. So, with all of that being said, I present to you ..read more

This review is for Movie Rob’s December 2023 genre grandeur of animated Christmas movies! In 1974, Rankin and Bass, made one of their final true classic animagic TV specials, The Year Without A Santa Claus. The premise is actually based on a 1956 children’s storybook of the same name by Phyllis McGinley. Amazingly, a title song did not exist prior to the special, and one was created specifically for it. It does however, incorporate the pre-existing songs of “Blue Christmas” and “Here Comes Santa Claus”. The plot of this special is all based on Santa (voiced once again by Mickey Rooney after ..read more

Hello all! As the year winds down, and we take in reflections, the movies we watch is very much a part of them. I don’t necessarily go to the movie theater a whole lot, but I do watch films at home. This year I’d like to reflect on the top ten new to me movies I’ve watched. They are not all newly made, but they are all movies I’ve never seen before. So without further ado, I present in no particular order, the top 10 new to me movies I watched in 2023: 1: The Electric Horseman 1979: This movie surprised me! I don’t really enjoy modern set westerns, and am not a horse enthusiast either, but I ..read more