Tag Archives: Classics

A rollicking Eddie Cantor comedy from 1933 pops up as a bargain videotape.

Rather than a literal adaptation, the film presents a story that could have inspired the legendary myth.

"Jai Sri Rama!" ("Praised be Rama!") indeed, but also praise to Ashok Banker.

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger create a spiritual film inspired by Chaucer's tales and Powell's youth.

We've got Bette Davis eyes: A great set of films showcases legend at work.

The movie is a disappointment.

There is so much in this film that influenced future stories, acting styles, and characters.

The Great Ape Kong pervades our cultural consciousness, looming over a collective fantasy urbanscape from a forever-’30s Empire State Building, reaching into our dreams through a window we know better than to leave open, a ferocious yet tragic fellow primate doomed by presumptuous and misplaced love. Can Peter Jackson’s 21st …

Tonight is the night for the digitally remastered, gala 40th anniversary presentation of the Charles M. Schulz “Peanuts” classic that the original network, CBS, thought too slow and religious, which was kind of the point. A Charlie Brown Christmas will be shown at 8 p.m. on ABC. Naturally, it was …

When I said something about “old movies” to my 6 year-old the other day, she said, “You mean like The Wizard of Oz and E.T.?” I said, “Broadly speaking, yes.” But there are old movies and OLD movies, and while The Wizard of Oz is a remarkably spry 66, and …