Monday, June 19, 2006 A Jewish-German family flees from Hitler to become multilingual African farmers in Nowhere in Africa (2001), West Virginian coal miners unionize and battle mercenaries in Matewan (1987), and Cary Grant and David Niven compete for Loretta Young in The Bishop's Wife (1947).

Monday, June 12, 2006 Laurence Olivier plays his opposite, a stage hack, in The Entertainer (1960), Frank Sinatra plays himself, a skirt-chasing nightclub singer, in Pal Joey (1957), and Ian McKellen (a.k.a. Gandalf) is a has-been classic film director in Gods and Monsters (1998), Print out the reviews and line your bird cage with 'em.

Backlog of blogs:
May 2006