Recent content by Kent Allard

I agree that all the remakes mentioned above are awful but no one has mentioned the film I consider to be the absolute nadir of remakes. I refer to the 1973 musical remake of Lost Horizon. A film that gives me nightmares just knowing it exists. The original Lost Horizon was one of those...

Last week was Leonard Cohen at the Palace Theater here in Columbus. 75 years old and the man does a 3 1/4 hour show. Amazing.

Duck Soup and Forgotten Silver were the last two I watched. Duck Soup is my absolute favorite Marx Brothers movie. Eminently quotable and loads of fun. I highly recommend Forgotten Silver to any silent movie afficionado. It's a faux documentary about the greatest filmmaker to come out...

The movie is actually a sequel to Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. It's about Alice running away from the man she is to be engaged to. From Wikipedia: Alice, now 17, attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of...

It's not on DVD, but the Robert Mitchum version of "Farewell, My Lovely" is available as a "view it now" on Netflix.

Was it just me or did the Nixon in that film look more like Bob Hope?

Is this the one you mean?

When my cell phone rings a voice intones "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men... The Shadow Knows!" Really freaks out anyone standing near me when I get a call.

I like it. The new poster is by Drew Struzan. Take a look at his website www.drewstruzan.com to see some of his other work.

I've been looking into the occurrence of profanity in movies and believe I have found the first use of the f-bomb in a popular film. It was in the 1970 film M*A*S*H and was spoken by John Schuck during the football sequence.

I prefer the name Kaja Foglio came up with for the genre. She refers to it as "Gaslight Fantasy".

I'm here in Columbus, Ohio. I'm more of a retro film buff than clothing buff but only because they don't tend to have decent retro clothing in my size. Now maybe if the Sydney Greenstreet estate has a sale...

I seem to remember hearing that Olivia De Havilland and Errol Flynn didn't get along too well on the set of "The Adventures of Robin Hood".

One of the stops on my vacation last year was in Grover's Mill, NJ. There's a park with a plaque dedicated to "The War of the Worlds". Sitting in that park at twilight and listening to a recording of the original broadcast was my favorite moment of frisson.

Actually, that's just going back to the original book. In the book (written in 1967) the cut off age was 21 but when they made the movie they didn't think they could pass Michael York off as being under 21.