I welcome you back with another review written for the Carry On blog series! This time, we’ll explore Carry On Spying (1964), which was the last film of the franchise to be shot in black and white. Furthermore, it also introduced Barbara Windsor to the series. She eventually became a Carry On regular. Bernard Cribbins […]

Carry On Jack (1964) is not necessarily known as the best film of the franchise. BFI didn’t list it among its list of five Carry On films to forget, but it’s not the one people will remember the best as it mostly seemed to be “a film among others”. With that in mind, I didn’t […]

We’ve already been through a week of Carry On films! To end this in beauty, we’re back with a more simple film of the series, leaving the colour of Carry On Cruising behind, with Carry On Cabby. Released in 1963, Carry On Cabby had the particularity to have a new screenwriter, Talbot Rothwell, instead of […]

Today, we shall review a quite special Carry On film! Why? Because Carry On Cruising (1962) was the first colour film of the series! That allowed us to see Kenneth Williams’s beautiful blue eyes. On a sadder note, this also was the first Carry On film not to feature Charles Hawtrey, and Joan Sims was […]

Wow! We’ve already reached the 5th article of this blogging series! And of all the Carry On films, it had to be Carry On Regardless (1961) which I enjoyed immensely. Of course, we still have a lot to explore, but I’m becoming more and more fond of the Carry On franchise. I also want to […]

I can’t believe I’ve already reviewed three of the Carry On films! And here we go for a fourth one: Carry On Constable (1960)! I know, it’s just four out of 31, but I feel that is looking more and more like a blogging series, no? By the way, I just went to the library […]

John Frankenheimer is one of those movie directors whose films, I feel, are so unique, that I couldn’t compare them with the work of anybody else. He fits, I believe, in the category of those “authors”. But it’s subtle and you have to look at them with a lot of reflexions. There’s a certain weirdness […]

Oh, Hitchcock, good old Hitchcock. What would be The Wonderful World of Cinema without any discussions about his films? Well, it’s been a long time since we didn’t have one and Maddy’s Third Hitchcock Blogathon that she is hosting on her blog Maddy Loves Her Classic Films seems to be the perfect occasion for that. […]

A top list of my 40 most favourite films of all time!

Two years after the first edition of her Disability in Films Blogathon, Robin from Pop Culture Reverie is back with a second edition of the event! This time, our mutual friend Crystal from In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood has joined her to co-host. In 2016, I explored physical disability with an article […]

Oh, Dolores. Where do I start? Back in 2011, maybe? Well, that’s when I first heard about her anyway. You see, my uncle who is a writer wrote a book called Elvis & Dolores, which was published in 2013. The story takes place in 2010 in a small city of Maine. However, it actually revolves […]

Ah, Lawrence of Arabia… An illustrious man and the subject of one of movie history’s best films. It is British movie director David Lean who created this masterpiece. With movies like Lawrence of Arabia (of course), Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago and Brief Encounter, he is considered to be one of […]

The following article on The Counterfeit Traitor was written by Juliet Campbell, a huge William Holden fan! Erik Erichson was a reluctant spy…much like William Holden was a reluctant participant at first to take on the role. But the lure of visiting distant European countries was a magnet to him. No disagreement then that Eric […]

“Dream dream, filling up an idle hour Fade away, radiate” – Debbie Harry, Dreaming– I’m one of those persons who are quite fascinated by dreams. From the most ordinary ones to the most extraordinary ones, I saw them in all their colours. When I can remember my dreams, I write them in a little notebook […]

Today marks the Burt Lancaster’s birthday! You may know it or not, but he has always been one of my very favourite actors since in discovered him in The Unforgiven (John Huston, 1960). The one we also call “Mr. Muscles & Teeth” or “Big Teeth” if you are my mother starred in some movies that […]

Well, yesterday was this time of the year where I do my usual Hitchcock movie marathon in honour of him. My favourite movie director would have been 118 years old! Even if he is no longer with us since a long time, many continue to celebrate his timeless work. I started my little marathon Saturday […]

Today, the strong, lovely, talented, legendary Olivia de Havilland is turning 101 years old and we are very lucky to still have her with us! Aging gracefully, she certainly is one of the most beautiful women of that age! For the occasion, Crystal from In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Laura from […]

Yesterday, the famous movie music composer Bernard Herrmann would have been 106 years old. He did not only share his brilliance in his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, but in all the movie scores he composed. It’s for that reason that he is a favourite among many cinephiles. He certainly was among those movie composers who […]

From March 2015 to April 2017, I was writing the monthly Teen Scene column for the website ClassicFlix. My objective was to promote classic films among teenagers and young adults. Due to the establishing of a new version of the website, it’s now more difficult to access to the old version and read the reviews. […]

From March 2015 to April 2017, I was writing the monthly Teen Scene column for the website ClassicFlix. My objective was to promote classic films among teenagers and young adults. Due to the establishing of a new version of the website, it’s now more difficult to access to the old version and read the reviews. […]