Remembering Maureen O’Hara
Maureen O’Hara made an indelible impression on moviegoers of several generations. Here at the Savannah Film Festival, the gifted young actress Saoirse Ronan spoke of meeting her and how she represented a success story that resounded with Irish moviegoers…
New Life for My Film Books
The books I’ve written over the years have had long lives, I’m happy to say, but some of them have been out-of-print for a while. Now they’re back as e-books and print-on-demand volumes thanks to Amazon Kindle. The earliest…
My Newest Reelz Movie Review Special
My latest movie roundup show begins playing today and airs numerous times over the coming week on Reelz Channel. My partner in crime, as always, is the lively and colorful Grae Drake, Senior Editor of Rotten Tomatoes. We have…
Remembering Joan Leslie
I was saddened to hear of Joan Leslie’s death earlier this week at the age of 90. She was one of my favorite interviews in recent years. She was incredibly nice, yet at the same time she belied her…
Studios Open Their Vaults—Even Wider
Even as film buffs bemoan the downsizing of the DVD market, major studios are making more of their vintage titles available in other ways. Paramount has just launched a YouTube channel on which, amazingly, they are streaming a diverse…
Adding ‘New’ Old Movies to My Classic Movie Guide
People seem surprised, or amused, when I tell them that we’ve added more than 300 new movies to my book, TCM Presents Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide. It wasn’t hard to do: my colleagues and I took note of…
35mm Isn’t Dead Yet…
The last thing I expect to see in a movie theater nowadays is a movie projected on film, but that’s what happened this weekend, quite by chance. I’m still catching up with pictures I missed during my illness and…
