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In a 1931 Warner Brothers film Blonde Crazy, in the pre-code period when expression was raunchier and more truthful before the era of middle-class censorship, as the Depression reaches its peak, conniving bellhop James Cagney is trying to convince new hotel hire Joan Blondell to go on the road with...

The Orpheum celebrates the era of silent movies beginning May 1.

Scottish cinemas have quite a lineup this month: saucy 30s Hollywood, Marlyn Monroe being an icon in the 60s, Kino Tanaka addressing love and sex head-on in 60s Japan, David Cronenberg creeping us out in the 80s, and werewolves attacking in 1981.

Prior to the proscriptive Hays Code, films were populated by adulterous, marijuana-smoking gold diggers – wildly entertaining and more modern than the roles that came next

4K restorations of Lost Highway and Harold & Maude, pre-censorship sauciness and much more

With the Oscars upon us this weekend it seems an apt time to recall choice lines from past films.

This past week we saw the 93rd Academy Awards give the Best Actress Award to Frances McDormand, again, for the 3rd time in her career. This is just one behind the record holder, Katherine Hepburn, who has 4 Oscars. But are these two the greatest of all time? Well before you read my list below, let me explain how I judged it. First, it is NOT by how many awards they won. So chill out, Kate Hepburn and Frances McDormand did NOT make my Top 10 but they did make the Top 20. If it was just Oscars, t...

Listening to the new Evermore, though, that doesn’t feel like such a threat. A better parallel might be to the “Side B” albums that Carly Rae Jepsen put out after both Dedicated, springing simply out of the artist’s and her fans’ mutual enthusiasm. Or, closer to Swift’s own impulses here, publishing an author’s book of short stories soon after a successful novel. Lockdown has been a huge challenge for musicians in general, but it liberated Swift from the near-perpetual touring a...