Classic Movies

The Lodger Gets an Americanized Remake
Speaking of Hitchcock, and speaking of remakes, as we often do, the trailer for the new version of The Lodger is out, and looks pretty darn creepy. The original 1927 silent...

Couples With Chemistry on TCM
Turner Classic Movies will feature an onscreen toast to classic film couples on November 18th and the 25th, and they've paired up with Chronicle to do a handsome book...

MGM Hooks Up With YouTube
With the success of sites providing digital content from just-released TV shows to classic movies, everybody's trying to get into the act -- but there's still some copyright snarls...

Ray Bradbury Chronicles the Classics on TCM
Turner Classic Movies has rounded up another one of my heroes to act as guest programmer for November - novelist and sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury. Bradbury's ideas were as wild and...

Tyrone Power Tribute at The Egyptian
American Cinemathetique plans a tribute to ravishing matinee idol Tyrone Power November 14-16 in Los Angeles at the fabulous Egyptian theater. On tap is the cult classic Nightmare Alley, along with...

Changeling Writer Tackles Robby the Robot
Has Hollywood always been this obsessed with remakes? Word now that J. Michael Straczynski, the respected sci-fi and comic book writer is trying his hand at a script for a...

Alec Baldwin to Co-Host TCM's The Essentials
For the ninth year of its series The Essentials, Turner Classic Movies has tapped one of my favorite actors - funny, versatile, resiliient Alec Baldwin - to co-host with...

George Clooney Tapped for The Birds
Speaking of remakes, the rumor is around and about that George Clooney is the choice to star in the planned remake of Alfred Hitchcock's surreal thriller The Birds. Naomi Watts is...

Cleopatra Remade?
I can't make this stuff up. Quirky director Steven Soderbergh has decided to make a rock-and-roll version of Cleopatra, and he's signed actress Welsh actress Catherine -Zeta Jones in the...

One of the President's Men on TCM
It's a great movie, and a timely reminder that voters can and should demand complete integrity from the men and women they send to the White House. Turner Classic Movies...