Th e notion that 1939 was the greatest of all movie years has been around for so long that it's pretty much an accepted fact these da...

Woodcut print by Guy Budziak Coney Island's opened its first "freak show" in 1880, but the heyday of its sideshow attracti...

There is no mistaking that drama on a grand scale is about to take place even before the first scene of The Rains Came (1939) begin...

I wasn’t sure, exactly, what the word meant and was curious, so I went to the Internet in search of an answer. There I found the ...

January 2013 brings, at last, the much-anticipated Noir City XI, San Francisco's 11 th annual film noir festival. Presented by the Fi...

Joan Carroll and Margaret O'Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis The origins of Halloween go back to the ancient Celtic festival known as S...

San Francisco's Coit Tower bathed in Giants orange on Sunday night  (photo by Luanne Dietz, SF Chronicle) One of the best-known t...

The Lady Eve's Reel Life is pleased to take part in a "prize pack" giveaway sponsored by Fathom Events and Harper Perenn...

Actress J eanne Eagels, one of the great legends of early 20th century American theater, became the toast of the...