Burgess Meredith News

This is a guest post by Michael Ravnitzky, with titles suggested by Katherine Brosnan.

Celebrating the birthdays cinematic: actors, actresses, and other filmtypes. If it's your big day, a happy one to you as well.

Since we're in a Halloween mood tonight, let's talk about Night Gallery , one of the scariest shows I remember from my childhood.

Thank God it's 'only a movie, only a movie, only a movie...' Starring Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Bette Davis, and Burgess Meredith.

It's a "sign of the times" story, but thankfully not of the "man sells newborn for Beatles: Rock Band " variety.

Hard to believe, but Friday marks the 50th anniversary of 'The Twilight Zone,' the twisty-turny, highly influential science-fiction anthology series.

Share + Sep 29, 2009 7:15 am US/Pacific SYRACUSE, N.Y. On a Friday night in October 1959, Americans began slipping into a dimension of imagination as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.

Unknown Sylvester Stallone was the one-man writer/star of this classic tale of a fourth-rate boxer who gets one last, miraculous shot at the title.

Four Oscar nominations, including best picture, went to this poignant 1939 adaptation of John Steinbeck's saga of George and his lumbering, mentally impaired friend Lennie , who share a dream of owning their own spread while working a ranch owned by a sadistic man with a flirtatious wife.

Wait, where's Thunderlips? Via Geeky Gadgets Reader Comments Neutral Rocketboy @ Jun 18th 2009 10:37AM "There is something really wrong looking with having a USB key look like...well...a penis." I'm guessing that you've never actually seen a penis? It doesn't look like a USB plug, that's all I'm saying.

Thanks to The Lonewolf Librarian via Library Attack for reminding me of this most excellent episode of "The Twilight Zone" from 1961.

Nineteen thirty-nine proved to be a vintage year for classic cinema with many of those movies still being revived on television, remembered and cherished even after 70 years.

Modern films? You can keep them. When it comes to choosing a movie, you'll find me browsing the deepest, darkest, dustiest shelves of the cinematic vaults a Sleeping giant a Les Enfants Terribles .