Laurie's Classic Movies Blog

Hands on buzzers, contestants. Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek will be the next guest programmer to sit down with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne for a night of chat ... Read More

Okay, so this is just a rumor, and Madonna's spokespeople refused to comment, and it's based on unnamed sources in a British newspaper...but Madonna wants to remake Casablanca. And change the ... Read More

Who would have thought it? The great big ape who climbed the Empire State Building to court a scantily clad Fay Wray and fight off cute little biplanes ... Read More

Nobody's ever done funny quite the way Gene Wilder does, whipsawing between gentle, milquetoast lunacy and almost-over-the-edge madness. And it shows in Turner Classic Movies' Role Model: Gene Wilder, ... Read More

A nice Minnesota boy who got his big break playing a psychotic killer in Kiss of Death (1947), Richard Widmark has died at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut at the ... Read More

I can't believe I missed this. Some of my favorite movies in one of my favorite cities, with great cocktails. Sigh. It was a "Tales of the Cocktail" film ... Read More

Looks like makeup genius Rick Baker has done it again. Here's his design for Benicio Del Toro as the title character in The Wolfman. A great, old-school look. ... Read More

Most famed for his spectacular creation of Sir Thomas More, first on stage and then on film in A Man For All Seasons, Paul Scofield has died in his native ... Read More

If I could collect any art, it would be poster art, and classic movie posters would be high on my list. From the records set at a recent Christie's sale in ... Read More

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, I want to go to this one. Believe it or not, the real city of Casablanca didn't have ... Read More

Time once again to be in Athens for the spring - Athens, Georgia - to partake of great classic movies at Robert Osborne's annual classic film festival. The Grady College of ... Read More

Here's a great way to waste five minutes and eight seconds. It's a time-lapse video of an artist sketching an extremely good likeness of Humphrey Bogart, fedora, upturned trench coat ... Read More

Warner Brothers will mark its 85th birthday this April, and the venerable studio is marking the occasion with a raft of new releases. Good news for the classic movie ... Read More

Well, she's got the look down. That cool, mysterious, ice-blonde look with the sizzling sexuality underneath. Singer Christina Aguilera is channeling the iconic look of the classic Alfred Hitchcock blonde ... Read More

Looks like we're headed toward another Hollywood remake of a film that was perfectly good to begin with - the chiller Rosemary's Baby. Platinum Dunes - Michael Bay's production ... Read More

This brilliant bit of YouTubery shows the world what things might have looked like if legendary title designer Saul Bass (think of the title sequences for North by Northwest, Anatomy ... Read More

The wicked witch's pointy hat. Indiana Jones' whip. Elizabeth Taylor's wig from Cleopatra. A Maltese falcon. Superman's cape. (Don't tug on it.) Those are some of the excellent classic-film items going on ... Read More

The good people at Criterion remind us that while director Ernst Lubitsch was a master of cinema comedy, he helped invent the modern movie musical as well. The Criterion division that ... Read More

By now, everyone has seen that classic video of Orson Welles trying to weave his drunken way through a Paul Masson wine commercial, and heard his classic frozen peas commercial ... Read More