In the twelve years I have covered Seattle International Film Festival for Watching Classic Movies, the event and the number of archival o...

  A celebration of Mamie Van Doren on posted on her birthday. This smart, gorgeous, funny, tough lady has beaten the odds and thrived, while...

There is no period in film history quite like the so-called pre-Code era, where the new production code put in place to keep the film ind...

  Hard to believe it, but here is the NINTH installment of Saucy Pre-Code Moments!     From fearful, to playful, skeletons make some of the...

  My guest is Esther Bley, creator of the beautifully-curated Queer Animation database and writer for Cartoon Research. We talked about q...

The six films that Humphrey Bogart and director John Huston made together are some of the best of Hollywood’s golden age. These men are al...

Lately I’ve been fascinated by the roles Hayley Mills played in her early adult years. The parts she picked in an effort to shake off the...