Category Archives: contributed post

Son of a steamboat captain = granddaddy of big laughs.

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My fourth contribution to the ongoing Comedy Countdown at Wonders in the Dark is now posted: at number 37, it’s Buster Keaton’s silent comedy masterpiece Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)!

Check out my thoughts on this truly hilarious film over at WitD today, and please feel free to contribute your views on the movie in the comments!

The countdown is still going strong as we move through the top forty films. Did your favorite comedies make the list? Keep checking Wonders in the Dark every week to find out!

“Sex always has something to do with it, dear.”

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My latest contribution to the ongoing Wonders in the Dark Comedy Countdown is live … at number 42, it’s the frenetic and fanatically funny Preston Sturges masterpiece, The Palm Beach Story (1942)!

Head on over to WitD to check out my thoughts on one of my favorite films of all time, and make sure to throw your two cents into the discussion in the comments! And keep checking in at Wonders every weekday as the countdown winds down to a close over the next two months–there are some truly fantastic films coming up on the list! (FYI: I’ll have my fourth contribution up next week!)

Hello! ma baby, hello! my honey …

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The ongoing Comedy Countdown at Wonders in the Dark is in full swing, and my second contribution to the event is now up on the site!

By sheer coincidence, number 69 on the countdown is the 1955 animated short One Froggy Evening, directed by none other than the subject of our week-long animation celebration, Chuck Jones!

Head on over to Wonders in the Dark to check out my thoughts on this classic cartoon! The comments section over there can get quite animated (see what I did there?), so please feel free to add your two cents to the conversation!

*Want to enter our drawing for two Looney Tunes compilations on DVD? Leave a comment on this post!*

Bedroom problems?

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My first contribution to the ongoing Comedy Countdown at Wonders in the Dark is up now … at number 79, it’s one of my favorite romantic comedies, 1959′s Pillow Talk, starring the ever-adorable bathing pair of Doris Day and Rock Hudson.

Head over there now to check out the post, and feel free to join the conversation in the comments! And if you haven’t been keeping up with the countdown, there are twenty-one other movies that have been discussed thus far, so make sure to check out those posts as well!

A few things of interest …

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First of all, my contribution to “March-in-March,” the wonderful tribute to Fredric March hosted by Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence, has been posted! I’ve taken a look back at 1942′s I Married a Witch, in which March notoriously clashed–on screen and off–with temperamental costar Veronica Lake. Make sure to check out ALL of the great entries that have been posted at the Fence throughout the month!

Secondly, we want to extend our sincere thanks to all of our readers and subscribers for helping us reach an amazing milestone today–300,000 page views! This calls for a celebratory happy dance.


We are grateful to each and every one of you, and hope that we can continue to deserve your interest throughout the third year of our blogging existence.  :)

And finally, I know I said I would be posting entries in our ongoing “Women in Hollywood” series this month … well, March has gotten away from me (this is, unfortunately, nothing new), but I’ll have a couple of posts up later this week before the month winds down to a close. Look for the first one to go up either tomorrow or Thursday, and another on Saturday (as part of our “Pioneers in Animation” series!).

If I let you change me, will that do it?

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Today, my contribution to The Lady Eve’s Month of Vertigo celebration is up at TLE’s Reel Life–all about Kim Novak’s sometimes underestimated contributions to the film. Thanks again, Eve, for inviting me to participate and allowing me the chance to revisit this film!

And for more things Vertigo, here are some thoughts about the film that I posted back in 2010.

Make sure to catch all of the entertaining and insightful posts that have been posted thus far–and will continue to be posted throughout the month–by the incomparable Lady Eve.

Too darn hot.

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My second contribution to the ongoing countdown of the “Top 70 Musicals of All Time” has been posted over at Wonders in the Dark. This time, the focus is on the wonderful 1953 Cole Porter musical Kiss Me Kate, which was ranked at number 48.

Head on over to Wonders in the Dark to check out this post and the other interesting, informative entries that have been posted in the countdown thus far!