BAR NOIR- Cocktails from Eddie Muller

  (January 19,2023)  We asked if we could offer our readers an exclusive sneak preview of Eddie Muller’s newest book, Bar Noir. Eddie—host of TCM’s Noir Alley is cocktail connoisseur and in this stylish book packed with equal parts great cocktail recipes and noir lore he takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a […]

BLACK AND WHITE AND NOIR AS ALL GET OUT

By Ben Terrall (Updated January 25,2023)  If you’re looking for a double dose, or more, of big screen escape from the exhausting ills of our modern world, you could do a lot worse than a film festival exemplified by this bit of turgid narration: “If I’d known where it would end, I’d never let anything […]

GROWING UP IN LOVE WITH THE MOVIES

By Meredith Brody (November 5, 2022) I’ve been a film buff ever since I first saw a re-issue of Cinderella at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland when I was just a tot. I wasn’t able to fully exercise my film buff inclinations for the next decade or so, as I was dependent on my […]

MORE SCARIEST MOMENTS

by Gary Meyer. (Updated October 29,2022) We got so many terrific responses to our inquires about scariest experiences both with art and real life that we decided to break them onto two pieces so readers will not be overwhelmed in one sitting. as you meet the daughters of horror masters Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and […]