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Back to Beyond – Defeating the ordinary in film, now and then

We didn’t have Marvel movies when I was growing up. Via TV, we were still fed a steady diet of Hollywood’s Golden Age, watching Bogart, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and the rest dance to the tunes of screenwriters like Raymond…
old film projector

Watch some old (and I mean really old) movies

The other day I watched a 1946 film called “The Big Sleep” starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.  It’s from a period referred to as Classic Hollywood – a period that spanned the 1930s, 40s, and into the 50s. It includes some…