This is a movie I went into with very low expectations but ended up loving it. I’m not normally a fan of family drama ‘weepies’. (I generally will run a mile from anything by Nicholas Sparks, for example). But for Terms of Endearment I will make an exception. I saw this at the cinema in…
Paris Hollywood
These mementoes of a bygone era evoke a classic touch of old-style Hollywood glamour. Paris Hollywood was a French glamour magazine that ran from 1947 to 1974. In its early incarnation, it featured Hollywood stars of the day on the covers, plus various pin-ups and the occasional tasteful nude shot inside. Within a few years…
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
In the 60s, melodramatic horror movies provided a late career fillip for a number of ageing Hollywood actresses. 1964’s Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte was originally conceived as a follow up to the hit Whatever Happened To Baby Jane. The plan was to again pair Bette Davis with Joan Crawford, to capitalise on their legendary real-life…
1970s poster magazines
These poster magazines became quite a thing for movie buffs in the UK in the 70s. I have already posted on my collection of Monster Mag, which folded out to reveal a huge, and usually gory, movie still. Not to be outdone, these rival themed horror poster mags promised ‘two giant posters inside.” In its…
The Roaring Twenties / High Sierra
Here are a pair of original stills for two Humphrey Bogart classics. I am not an avid collector of film stills, and I do not pretend to know much about how to authenticate them as originals. These both appealed, however – both in terms of the images, plus I particularly like the text at the…
Red Dawn
Normally I try to post memorabilia from movies I like. But here are a pair of stills in my collection from one of my least favourite movies ever. I saw the original version of Red Dawn when I was reviewing movies for the student newspaper at university. I hated it from the off, but felt…
Once Upon A Time In America
This is a still from one of the most epic gangster movies ever made. Once Upon A Time In America was the final film by the Italian maestro Sergio Leone, who had made the Dollars trilogy with Clint Eastwood, plus the equally epic Once Upon A Time In The West. I saw …America when I…