Independent Lens , the Emmy-winning PBS series, airs Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s These Amazing Shadows , a one-hour documentary, on T...

Some Came Running A sampling of a few posts and one event (my first!) on the near horizon for The Lady Eve's Reel Life : The Famili...

I'm looking forward to spending some time with one of my favorite families this Thanksgiving weekend, Hannah and Her Sisters ...

For a few years now, Turner Classic Movies has traditionally aired The Uninvited (1944) during Halloween season. A gothic myste...

Halloween has come and gone, a time change looms (“fall back”) and winter is just around the corner. Early twilight and cool evenin...

  The Uninvited , from Paramount Pictures in 1944, is an elegantly spooky Rebecca -esque romance with more than one haunting quality. Yes...

Bette Davis, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex  (1939) When I received an email from Rick Armstrong the other day telling me th...

'The Lubitsch Touch' has been dissected and analyzed for decades. Billy Wilder, who had been prot égé to director Ernst Lubitsc...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the premiere of The Dick Van Dyke Show and this post is my contribution to the tribute blogathon hos...