Call me a cephalophile. Or an octo-enthusiast. Either one speaks to my obsession with the octopus in film. It is such a dramatic creature with those eight elongated tentacles that even a brief

Noir Nook: Darkest Noirs One of the features of film noir that I love most is the sheer “darkness” of the plots, characters, and themes. The darker, the better, in fact – no

Silver Screen Standards: The Devil Doll (1936) There’s nothing standard about the wild plot of the 1936 horror film, The Devil Doll, with its miniaturized zombie killers, mad scientists, use of drag as

California Gold Country Western Locations From Iverson Ranch to Lone Pine, Moab to Kanab, Corriganville to Pioneertown, I love visiting Western movie locations! This spring a road trip took us to California’s “Gold

Georges Méliès Amongst The Stars Mankind dreamed of going to the moon and flying through the stars long before the actual rocket ships were invented. And at the turn of the 20th century,

Stranger than Fiction – Part 2(Leon Ames and Ruth Roman) “Truth is stranger than fiction,” Mark Twain once informed us, “but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” 

Horror films to Celebrate National Classic Movie Day The “national day” trend of recent years can be fun. National Doughnut Day (June 5) is something I celebrate every day, but I do take

Meet new CMBA member Rachel Martinez who a blog called Vintage Stardust that focuses on design in classic movies. She took time to answer some questions from board member Maddy Langham so we could