A Shroud of Thoughts

There seems to be no shortage of famous Old West lawmen. Such men as Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickock, and Bat Masterson have been immortalised...

(This post is part of the O Canada blogathon hosted by Silver Screenings and Speakeasy ) If one asks a film buff to name a Canadia...

If you are a fan of silent movies you might well have heard of film preservationist David Shepard. He was responsible for the preservation a...

It was 50 years ago today at Abbey Road Studios in London that The Beatles began recording a new song by Paul McCartney entitled "Sgt. ...

I think I can speak for most of us when I say that we hoped fewer classic stars from film, television, and music would die in 2017 than had ...

Mike Connors, best known for starring in the detective series Mannix , died on January 26 2017 at the age of 91. The cause was complicatio...

If ever an actor was a chameleon, it was Sir John Hurt. He was Quentin Crisp in the TV movie The Naked Civil Servant . He was Caligula in ...