12 year-old Dakota Fanning is now a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, making her eligible for voting on future years' Oscar nominees? How is this? Yes I understand how, but what sense of movie history does she have to properly contextualize a film's place in the annals of mainstream American cinema ( Read more... )

Geoff Gilmore (head programmer of the Sundance Film Festival ( Read more... )

The Internet Movie Database has a link ranking the Top 250 Films Ever Made (as voted by the general population AND film historians and professional critics). How many of these have you seen ( Read more... )

Universal Studios has announced a new Legacy set for Sept! This time its (predictably) Boris Karloff! They are simultaneously releasing all six Inner Sanctum titles! With this announcement that means that five more classics heretofore unreleased on DVD (or even VHS in some cases) will finally see the light of day. Back in January I compiled a ( Read more... )