2024-03-27 21:01
Starring: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia Mc Broom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett, David Gurian
Director: Russ Meyer
This movie is what happens when a studio wants to cash in on… Read More
Blog Directory > Arts & Entertainment Blogs > wildfiremovies | Random rantings and interesting t arts-and-entertainment Blog >
Wildfiremovies | Random Rantings And Interesting T Blog
wildfiremotionpictures.com
Tags:
film
movie
classic
horror
peggy cummins
studio
forever
beverly hills
urban legend
horror franchise
Random rantings and interesting tales from a freelance writer and film maker.
2023-10-19 16:00
In this series of slasher films, good looking college kids are menaced by a killer who sets up elaborate murders that mimic well known urban legends. Starting in 1998, with a star stud… Read More
2023-09-06 17:00
Starring: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward,
Director: Carl Reiner
Steve Martin stars as a private detective in this neo noir, film noir homage, comedy that’s a love letter to the c… Read More
2023-09-01 16:00
Starring: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Director: Otto Preminger
Based on a book that was widely banned for indecency, (and therefore was a huge bests… Read More
2023-08-30 22:17
Starring: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Googie Withers, Roland Culver,
Director: Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, Charles Chrichton
In this Ealing Studios 1940’s h… Read More
2022-10-31 16:00
I love watching scary movies around this time of year and there’s nothing I love quite like a horror franchise. Seeing how the film’s plots and tropes evolve or devolve as th… Read More
2022-10-21 16:00
Starring: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut,
Director: Irvin S Yeaworth
The Blob is a 50’s sci fi/horror classic about a goo that escapes from inside a fallen meteor and menaces… Read More
2022-08-04 16:00
Starring: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher
Director: Douglas Trumbull
A technology that allows you to experience other people’s minds and memories, and the g… Read More
2022-07-28 16:00
Starring: Peggy Cummins, John Dall,
Director: Joseph H Lewis
Also sometimes titled “Deadly Is The Female”, this is a crime movie about a woman and a man who meet, fall… Read More
2022-07-21 16:00
Starring: Shelley Long, Craig T Nelson, Carla Gugino, Kellie Martin, Ami Foster
Director: Jeff Kanew
Shelley Long stars as Phyllis Nefler, a pampered Beverly Hills wife, soon to be… Read More
2022-07-06 19:11
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Theresa Harris, George Brent
Director: Alfred E Green
Lily Powers (Stanwyck) decides, after years of being exploited, to take her life into her own hand… Read More
2022-04-29 03:57
Starring: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Jeff Donnell
Director: Lew Landers
Always check the basement for bodies when you buy a property! This dark comedy is an oft overlooked hour lo… Read More
2022-03-17 15:00
Starring: Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde
Director: Joseph Losey
Modesty Blaise is the international woman of mystery, a master thief gone straight, tasked with protectin… Read More
2022-03-03 17:00
Don’t you love these old school, drawn posters?
Starring: Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Walter Huston, Anne Revere.
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
A girl who daydreams of life… Read More
2022-02-03 17:00
Starring: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
Director: Paul Henreid
After not speaking to each other in 20 years, Edith decides to take revenge on her twin Margaret who ruined… Read More
2022-01-20 17:00
Starring: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin
Director: Roy William Neill
Eight guests are invited to a penthouse apartment for a lavish dinner, but it’s all very mysterious. None o… Read More
2022-01-08 17:00
Ginger Rogers and David Niven star in this hilarious and slightly odd screwball comedy about a woman mistaken to be the mother of an abandoned child and the lengths people go to to help… Read More
2021-11-02 06:52
Starring: Richard Carlson, Susan Gordon, Lugene Sanders, Juli Reding
Director: Bert I Gordon
To round off Halloween month and spooky season, I covered this fun classic about a woma… Read More
2021-10-23 16:00
Starring: Gary Cole, Lucas Black, Sarah Paulson, Paige Turco, Jake Weber
With Sam Raimi executive producing, and created by Shaun Cassidy, American Gothic was a dark little 90’s… Read More
2021-10-01 16:00
I recently re- watched Candyman, a horror film from the early 90’s, because I love an old horror and because I heard about the remake coming out. What I didn’t realise is t… Read More
2021-09-24 04:08
Richard Gere starred in this sexy 80’s film as a male prostitute, working in LA who gets framed for murder, in a career starting role. It’s classic 80’s, and pushed the… Read More
2021-08-31 03:29
Rembrandt is a 1930’s era biopic about the latter part of the artists life, with Charles Laughton starring. This film was a fun one to talk about. It features a husband and wife pl… Read More
2021-07-29 16:00
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
This week’s classic movie is Hitchcock’s last under Selznick a… Read More
2021-07-15 16:00
Starring: Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, James Donald, Julian Glover
Director: Roy Ward Baker
When a new underground station is being dug in 60’s London, something that was lo… Read More
2021-06-17 16:00
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D’Angelo
Director: Michael Apted
The adaptation of Loretta Lynn’s bestselling memoir, Coal Miner’s Daughter is br… Read More
2021-06-13 02:35
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
A startling, strange and beautiful Japanese animation film, Akira was the most expensive animation in it’s country’s history at the time. In a cy… Read More
2021-04-17 03:55
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jeniffer Beals
Director: Robert Bierman
Vampire’s Kiss is a late 80’s film starring Nicolas Cage as a publishing executi… Read More
2021-04-01 16:00
Starring: Fairuza Balk, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie, Brian Henson
Director: Walter Murch
Dorothy returns to Oz in this dark Disney movie. But Oz is not a technicolor musical this time… Read More
2021-03-25 16:00
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Dennis Morgan, John Litel, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris
Director: Vincent Sherman
A fun, short and slightly obscure one this week. The Return of Doctor X… Read More
2021-03-11 17:00
On The Gen X and The Millennial Podcast, where a generation X and a millennial each pick a film and make the other watch it… we talked about two great 1960’s era horror film… Read More
2021-03-04 17:00
Just to keep things interesting, this week I’m talking about Film Noir. It’s a really misunderstood movement in film, so in this video I talk about the history, whether it&rs… Read More
2021-02-18 17:00
Starring: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack
Director: Mervyn Leroy
In this week’s classic movie, a mother starts to wonder if there is something sinister and deeply wrong with her… Read More
2021-02-04 17:00
Starring: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman
Director: Martin Ritt
Sally Field is Norma Rae, a woman who lives in a small town where everyone works in a textile factory. She&rs… Read More
2021-01-21 17:00
Starring: F Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Jeffrey Jones
Director: Milos Foreman
Sometimes dark, sometimes funny, always lavish, Amadeus is a lush and… Read More
2021-01-08 17:00
Starring: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw
Director: Steven Spielberg.
Stay out of the water… The Summer blockbuster that started them all and adapted from the b… Read More
2020-12-24 17:00
Starring: Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire
Director: Brian Henson
Jim Henson and his Muppets pals take on the classic Dickens tale of A Christmas Carol, with Michael Caine… Read More
2020-12-22 17:00
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, Tim Curry,
Director: Chris Columbus
Kevin McCallister finds himself left behind over Christmas again, b… Read More
2020-12-18 17:00
Starring: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, David Krumholtz
Director: John Pasquin
A divorced Dad has his kid for Christmas Eve and it’s not going well, when an accident means he be… Read More
2020-12-15 17:00
Starring: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Mary Steenbergen, Zooey Deschanel, Bob Newhart
Director: Jon Favreau
When an orphaned baby accidentally gets taken to the North Pole, Santa deci… Read More
2020-12-11 17:00
Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwaite, Carole Kane, Robert Mitchum
Director: Richard Donner
A selfish, cynical TV executive is haunted… Read More
2020-12-08 23:32
Starring: David Bowie, Raymond Briggs, Mel Smith
Director: Jimmy T Murakami, Dianne Jackson
It’s Christmas, and a little boy builds a snowman which comes to life and takes hi… Read More
2020-10-31 16:00
Created to cash in on the highly successful slasher flick Halloween which came out in 1978, Friday The 13th revolves around Jason Voorhees, a child who drowned at a school camp. Initiall… Read More
2020-10-26 16:00
In Stephen King’s book Danse Macabre, he talks about horror in books and movies and why we are so drawn to these themes and stories. It’s a great book by a master of the gen… Read More
2020-10-23 16:00
In Stephen King’s book Danse Macabre, he talks about horror in books and movies and why we are so drawn to these themes and stories. It’s a great book by a master of the gen… Read More
2020-10-19 16:00
In Stephen King’s book Danse Macabre, he talks about horror in books and movies and why we are so drawn to these themes and stories. It’s a great book by a master of the gen… Read More
2020-10-16 16:00
In Stephen King’s book Danse Macabre, he talks about horror in books and movies and why we are so drawn to these themes and stories. It’s a great book by a master of the gen… Read More
2020-10-12 16:00
In Stephen King’s book Danse Macabre, he talks about horror in books and movies and why we are so drawn to these themes and stories. It’s a great book by a master of the gen… Read More
2020-10-09 16:00
In Stephen King’s book Danse Macabre, he talks about horror in books and movies and why we are so drawn to these themes and stories. It’s a great book by a master of the genr… Read More
2020-10-07 16:00
I had a lot of fun doing a little guest appearance on this podcast. It’s Howard Casner’s Pop Art podcast. It compares one more modern, pop culture movie with a classic or cult f… Read More
2020-10-05 16:00
In Stephen King’s book Danse Macabre, he talks about horror in books and movies and why we are so drawn to these themes and stories. It’s a great book by a master of the gen… Read More
2020-10-02 16:00
In Stephen King’s book Danse Macabre, he talks about horror in books and movies and why we are so drawn to these themes and stories. It’s a great book by a master of the genr… Read More
2020-09-24 16:00
Starring: Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Bateman, Jimmi Simpson
Director: Derrick Borte
Rachel (Pistorius) is running late and having a bad day when she gets annoyed at a… Read More
2020-09-07 23:07
I caught up with Damien Riley on his podcast, Riley on Film. He loves to talk about scary movies, which is great because I do too! We focused on two films. House On Haunted Hill from 195… Read More
2020-08-27 16:00
Starring: Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter
Director: PJ Hogan
You’re terrible, Muriel.
Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths star in this film about not fitting… Read More
2020-08-20 16:00
Starring: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Sybylla is a woman ahead of her time in this feminist drama, with Gillian Armstrong at the helm. A beautif… Read More
2020-08-13 16:00
Starring: Jon Blake, Peter Phelps, John Walton, Sigrid Thornton
Director: Simon Wincer
Beautifully shot, and full of patriotism and horses! Yay! Based on the true story of the Aust… Read More
2020-08-06 16:00
Starring: Donald Pleasance, Gary Bond, Chips Refferty, Jack Thompson
Director: Ted Kotcheff
A teacher in a rural Australian town finds himself stranded in the middle of nowhere aft… Read More
2020-07-30 16:00
Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter,
Director: Don Siegel
The original classic horror story about the slow replacement of people with pod people…. emotionless, alien clon… Read More
2020-07-23 16:00
Something slightly different this week. Covering an interesting and much mentioned piece of cinema history. We often talk about an actor or film being Box Office Poison, but what does th… Read More
2020-07-18 16:00
Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Michael Shannon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer
Director: Rian Johnson
When… Read More
2020-07-16 16:00
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden
Director: Billy Wilder
A classic Audrey Hepburn movie, need we say more?
Sabrina is the chauffer’s daughter who… Read More
2020-07-13 16:00
Starring: Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Jurnee Smollett, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor
Director: Cathy Yan
Harley Quinn (Robbie) and the Joker have broken up, and since she… Read More
2020-07-10 21:23
Starring: Vin Diesel, Eiza Gonzalez, Sam Heughan, Guy Pearce, Lamorne Morris
Director: Dave Wilson
When brought back from the dead, Ray Garrison (Diesel) has had his body improved… Read More
2020-07-09 16:00
Starring: Jane Powell, Howard Keel
Director: Stanley Donen
When is it OK to kidnap a bunch of women from the nearest town and keep them captive for the Winter until they love you?… Read More
2020-07-02 16:00
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Wendy Craig
Director: Joseph Losey
A man hires a servant. The servant has plans of his own.
A creepy, fascinating plot with homo… Read More
2020-06-25 16:00
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier,
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
A naive girl finds she’s bitten off more than she can chew when she marries a man whose previous wife d… Read More
2020-06-18 16:00
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians
Director: Max Ophuls
Vienna 1900, a young girl (Joan Fontaine) falls in love with an older man when she hears his beautiful… Read More
2020-06-11 16:00
Starring: Roger Livesy, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook
Director: Powell and Pressburger
An epic of war, friendship, romance and historical upheaval. The Life and Death Of Colonel Bli… Read More
2020-06-04 16:00
Starring: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best, Hari Rhodes
Director: Samuel Fuller
A 60’s era exploitation B movie that’s full of hysteria and excelle… Read More
2020-05-28 16:00
Starring: Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles
Director: Howard Hughes
A bit of a commercial failure on release, this madcap screwball comedy starring Katherine Hepburn… Read More
2020-05-21 16:00
Starring: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Based on Alan Dershowitz book of the same name about his work on the case for the acqu… Read More
2020-05-14 16:00
Starring: Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Victor McLaglen, Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine
Director: George Stevens
Based very loosely on work by Rudyard Kipling, Gunga Din is the story… Read More
2020-05-08 16:00
Starring: William Hurt, Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks, Joan Cusak, Jack Nicholson
Director: JL Brooks
Structured around a love triange between an intense news producer, her best frie… Read More
2020-05-05 02:55
Starring: Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Lee Philips,
Director: Mark Robson
Based on Grace Metalious dark and controversial expose of American life and culture, this book caused huge fu… Read More
2020-04-16 16:00
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Eva Gabor, Anita Ekberg
Director: Frank Tashlin
Rick (Martin) is an artist who lives in an apartment with his friend Eugene (L… Read More
2020-04-09 16:00
Starring: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Charles Crumb
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Imdb describes this film as “an intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and… Read More
2020-03-30 16:00
Starring: Elizabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid
Director: Leigh Whannell
Cecilia (Moss) manages to leave her controlling, abusive boyfriend, but b… Read More
2020-03-27 22:41
Starring: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell stars as the classic hard-boiled detective Phillip Marlowe, adapted from Raymond Chandlers story… Read More
2020-03-19 16:00
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, John Loder
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Perhaps one of Hitchcocks lesser known movies, Sabotage is the story of a woman caught between her k… Read More
2020-03-12 16:00
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Director: Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton was a well established actor when he took on directing this classic. Sadly, it… Read More
2020-03-05 17:00
Starring: Jean Marais, Josette Day
Director: Jean Cocteau, Rene Clement
Jean Cocteau’s magical classic fairytale is beautiful and strange, and definitely ahead of it’… Read More
2020-02-20 17:00
Starring: Orson Welles, Edward G Robinson, Loretta Young
Director: Orson Welles
Orson Welles is the handsome stranger in small town Connecticut when his past starts to catch up w… Read More
2020-02-13 17:00
Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne
Director: Leo McCarey
A classic and much lauded screwball comedy, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne sparkle as… Read More
2020-02-06 17:00
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee
Director: Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges was a masterful writer/director in the romentic comedy, screwball form… Read More
2020-01-30 17:00
Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Mixing it up, I’m trying out making video reviews as an alternative to written ones. First up, Strangers… Read More
2020-01-23 17:00
Starring: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler
Director: Tod Browning
Sound films were in their infancy when this film was released on Valentine’s Day and it’s la… Read More
2020-01-16 17:00
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong
Director: Chen Kaige
Quite a long, epic film at almost 3 hours, Farewell My Concubine is the story of two men who get to know each ot… Read More
2020-01-09 17:00
Starring: Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill
Director: Bill Forsyth
Ruth and Lucille are two sisters who are sent to live with relatives after their mother commits suici… Read More
2020-01-02 17:00
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Constantine Romanoff, Walter James
Director: Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd
Harold Hickory (Lloyd) is the youngest son of the Sherriff of Hickoryvi… Read More
2019-12-27 17:00
Starring: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie
Director: Randa Haines
When the new speech teacher James (Hurt) starts at a school for the deaf he’s struck by the anger a… Read More
2019-12-19 17:00
Starring: Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou
Director: Robert J Flaherty
At the start of this film, a title card lets us know that Flaherty worked for a fur company in the Art… Read More
2019-12-12 17:00
Starring: James Stewart, Donald Crisp, Arthur Kennedy, Cathy O’Donnell
Director: Anthony Mann
A stranger comes to Coronado, a small isolated town in Apache country. Will Lock… Read More
2019-12-05 17:00
Starring: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman
Director: John Dahl
Bridget (Fiorentino) convinces her husband (Pullman) into getting involved in a drug deal, and then runs of… Read More
2019-11-28 17:00
Starring: Jane Russell, Bob Hope, Robert Armstrong
Director: Norman Z McLeod
In exchange for a pardon, Calamity Jane (Russell) agrees to find out who is selling arms to the Indians… Read More
2019-11-21 17:00
Starring: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins
Director: Ron Shelton
A baseball fan Annie (Sarandon) has an affair with one player of the Bulls each season and the player alw… Read More
2019-11-14 17:00
Starring: Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott, Alice Brady
Director: Henry Hathaway
A beautiful Hollywood star (West) is tangled in a romance with a politician that might ruin… Read More
2019-11-07 17:00
Starring: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Bennie (Oates) is a piano player in a bar in Mexico who finds out that two… Read More
2019-11-01 16:00
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Donald Crisp, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall
Director: John Ford
It’s the turn of the Century, and in a small village in Wales, mini… Read More
2019-10-31 16:00
You know I love a horror franchise, and with is being Halloween, I wanted to bring you a special post. Just for you guys, I watched every Halloween film from 1978 til 2018, and you can&rsqu&helli…Read More
2019-10-28 16:00
Starring: Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell, Rachel True
Director: Andrew Fleming
Sarah (Tunney) isn’t sure she will fit in at her new school, but when she falls in w… Read More
Subscribe to Wildfiremovies | Random Rantings And Interesting T
Get updates delivered right to your inbox!