Category: Movies & Television

“The Robe”—Another Hollywood Sleight of Hand?

  While preparing, with Art Olivier, a unique article about 9/11, I again divert briefly into classic Hollywood. In early 2025, I wrote a post about the egregious discrimination that the 1951 Bible-era epic Quo Vadis received at the Academy Awards (0 wins out of 8 nominations) vs. 1959’s Ben

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One More Forgotten Classic from the Golden Age of Television

Some of my readers must be wondering why I’ve written three straight short posts concerning Hollywood’s older days.  Don’t I know about the coming digital ID and currency, and the rest of the whole dangerous mess our world is facing? Am I playing a fiddle while Rome burns? Frankly, I’m

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A Tale of Two Clint Eastwood Movies

Perhaps a better title for this post would have been “A Tale of Two Clint Eastwoods,” but I’m no Eastwood expert. I know he’s done quite a bit of directing as well as acting over recent decades, and I haven’t kept up with his work. That’s because I rarely watch

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The 9/11 Movie Few People Know About

While researching my next 9/11 blog post—about the many anomalies of the planes on September 11, 2001—I went through the recovered forum threads for the now-defunct website of Pilots for 9/11 Truth. In doing so, I learned, for the first time, of a 2012 movie about 9/11 that I’d never

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Forgotten Classic Movies You Can Watch for Free

Some of my readers have read my posts on the real reason there was a Golden Age of Television, as well as my post on the “lost” drama anthologies of that era, and how you can still buy many of them. Hollywood movies ran pretty much parallel to television during

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