Sure, you’ve seen the old black and white classics, but have you born witness to “Forbidden Hollywood?” Kick off your new year right, (and oh, so delightfully wrong) with a cinematic journey into the salacious, controversial, and provocative pre-code era of American movies with Josef von Sternberg’s “Morocco!” Starring the singularly iconoclastic Marlene Dietrich and […]

Didya hear the one ‘bout the funny lookin’ fella, the real super lady detective, and the woodchipper? It’s called Fargo and, oh jeez, whadya know? It’s playing at the Senate Theater for a 30th anniversary screening! Revolving around the bloody consequences of a foolhardy kidnapping scheme, Fargo was a hit with critics and audiences, earning […]

See Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in William Wyler’s “Roman Holiday”! This award-winning romantic comedy about the intensity of love and the weight of one’s responsibilities has wooed audiences for over seventy years. Secretly co-written by Dalton Trumbo, who was then on the infamous Hollywood blacklist, “Roman Holiday” was filmed on location in Rome and […]

If Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” was a person, it could start collecting social security in 2026. Which is to say, (with apologies to 62-year-olds across America) this film is old. However, its deadly serious message, delivered with a 50 megaton dose of zany irreverence, […]

The film concerns Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), a Canadian civilian in London who becomes caught up in preventing an organization of spies called “The 39 Steps” from stealing British military secrets. Mistakenly accused of the murder of a counter-espionage agent, Hannay goes on the run to Scotland and becomes tangled up with an attractive woman, […]