It is with much regret that I must call an end to my humble blogging efforts. After 345 entries, the first of which was May 11, 2007, I've decided to call it a day. I never thought it would l...
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I'm going to be in my grumpy old man mode for this post, but I thought 2014 was a pretty mediocre year at the movies, especially for mainstream titles. There were very few movies I was genuinely...
http://kevinsmoviecorner.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-best-and-worst-of-2014.html
Universal Studios' THE SUN NEVER SETS (1939) sounds like its the quintessential salute to the British Empire. It's not, and it's curiously actionless for most of its 96-minute running tim...
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I'm very pleased to be participating in the upcoming British Empire Blogathon, hosted by The Stalking Moon and Phantom Empires. I will be posting on THE SUN NEVER SETS (1939), with Basil R...
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Even into the mid 1940s, studios were trying to replicate the success of M-G-M's enormously successful Thin Man movies by making their own movies featuring a happily married, yet zany, coupl...
http://kevinsmoviecorner.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-girl-in-case.html
BIG JAKE (1971) is probably my favorite John Wayne western. Not his best, mind you, but my favorite. I've seen it countless times and will happily sit down and watch it a dozen more times....
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Comfort movies. I guess everyone has a different definition of what a comfort movie is. For me, a comfort movie is a very personal one, a movie you really enjoy and watch whenever it is on T...
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I haven't watched anything of late to blog about, but I've had a few ideas percolating in my mind for a couple of weeks. Current movies will be discussed, but there will be some Golden Age tie-i...
http://kevinsmoviecorner.blogspot.com/2014/07/dibs-and-dabs-russell-crowe-jersey-boys.html
We often think of Golden Age movie stars living a life of ease, making movies during the day and then going to nightclubs like Ciro's or The Brown Derby in the evening. But Golden Age mov...
http://kevinsmoviecorner.blogspot.com/2014/06/my-gal-sal.html
The name of this blogathon is Fabulous Films of the 50s and when it came to the western genre, the 1950s was indeed a fabulous decade. There were probably more genuinely great westerns in th...
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This entry is happily part of the Power-Mad blogathon to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of Hollywood's most enduring stars, Tyrone Power. Other entries can be found here...
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THE FBI STORY (1959) is a product of its time, as conservative a movie made in the 1950s or any other decade. The FBI is portrayed as the finest friend the American citizen ha...
http://kevinsmoviecorner.blogspot.com/2014/04/james-stewart-blogathon-fbi-story.html
MASTER MINDS (1949) is one of the more amusing entries in the Bowery Boys series, and may prove of special interest to1940s horror movie fans. At 48 entries and, to date, the longest-ru...
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(My apologies for the lateness of this Best of 2013 column. It's up much later than I planned, thanks to irritating computer problems and equally irritating life issues that sometimes po...
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It took me several decades, but I finally got to see LADY IN THE IRON MASK (1952) which for many years was one of my most sought-after titles. It wasn’t under idyllic circumstances that...
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(A copy of Hollywood on Lake Michigan: 100+ Years of Chicago and the Movies by Michael Corcoran and Arnie Bernstein (Chicago Review Press, 2013) was submitted to me for review.) As a life...
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M-G-M’s swashbuckling adventure film “Quentin Durward” is one of those films that plays much better now than when it was first released in 1955. At the time it was perceived as just an...
http://kevinsmoviecorner.blogspot.com/2013/11/quentin-durward.html
“In my early teens, I went with groups of friends to go and see certain films. If we saw the logo of Hammer films we knew it was going to be a very special picture�...
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Alexander Hollenius, the vain, selfish, childish, sardonic and very witty composer genius in “Deception” (1946) is probably my favorite Claude Rains characterization ever. That’s ...
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For me, a show like “The Flame and the Arrow” (1950) represents what movies are all about - the romance of the movies, so to speak. Beautifully filmed in Technicolor, “The Flame ...
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I saw the new “Lone Ranger” movie and it’s every bit as awful as the reviews have said. There’s an enormous train wreck at the end, a potent metaphor for what this movie is. It�...
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I’ve never attended a state fair, but I wouldn’t mind going to one, especially after watching “State Fair” (1945), which a friend of mine, a veteran of many state fairs, says...
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A few weeks ago, I passed the 100,000 hit on this blog, which began in 2007. I'm thrilled with the response and gratified to all who have stopped by and read. I like to think I've made some very...
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“Welcome Stranger” (1947) would likely play well for those who like Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald but find “Going My Way” (1944) too treacly for words. Both Crosby and Fitzg...
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I had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend in Winterset, IA at the John Wayne Birthday Celebration. The weekend was a billed as “A Tribute to Maureen O’Hara” and the great lady appeared in...
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