We were both pleasantly surprised by last night’s Mystery Movie, SING SING. Not one that I was anticipating, but I walked away really loving it. Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men, including a wary newcomer […]
Credit At Last For Female Screenwriter Airbrushed From Hollywood History
To screenwriters in the 1950s, she was a major power player, fighting for pay rises and striking rights. To the Hollywood studio heads, she was “the meanest bitch in town”. Now, a new book aims to restore Mary C McCall Jr’s reputation as one of the film industry’s most important figures, a trailblazer who was […]
The Glorious Beginnings of the Delightfully Absurd “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse”
“I never set out to do a big educational show. We’re trying to expose children to as much creativity as we can muster in a half-hour, to be entertaining and to transmit some subliminal messages like ‘nonconformity isn’t bad.’” There’s never been a show like it, and it’s unlikely there ever will be again, which […]
The History of Drive-in Movie Theaters
Fun little article from the New York Film Academy on the history of drive-in movie theaters. Definitely some new stops to add to the map. Though there were drive-ins as early as the 1910s, the first patented drive-in was opened on June 6, 1933 by Richard Hollingshead in New Jersey. He created it as a […]
Mystery Movie: FLY ME TO THE MOON
Last night’s Mystery Movie gave us another AppleTV flick, FLY ME TO THE MOON. Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, FLY ME TO THE MOON is a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as […]