“The lost film,” a phrase that inspires articles and videos, as well as intriguing people bold enough to go out on a literal treasure hunt for fans in the hopes of finding something once originally deemed gone for good. Film accompanist and Undercrank founder Ben Model may not consider himself a film preservationist, but his…

At the end of May TCM announced Tiffany Vazquez as their new on-air correspondent, covering films on Saturday afternoons (with the unspoken implication of expanding her further). From TCM’s first “Ultimate Fan” to regular host, Vazquez’s rise to prominence is a fairy tale any TCM viewer can only dream will happen to them. Vazquez was…

TCM experts know our two on-air hosts, Ben Mankiewicz and Robert Osborne, but what about the third voice of TCM? If you’ve watched any of TCM’s packaged segments, their monthly news segments or, before the end of summer, seen their “what’s next” guide then you’ve heard and enjoyed the dulcet tones of voice actress Robin…

Tab Hunter is the quintessential 1950s male, but he’ll be the first to tell you those days are dead and gone. An actor who’s worked with such titans of the era – just look at the names mentioned throughout – it was hard not shouting out names to him and hearing his responses. While out…

This has been an amazing year for documentaries about Hollywood’s Golden Era, and no one made that era sound good like composer Bernard Herrmann. Known predominately for his work with director Alfred Hitchcock, Herrmann composed scores for seven of Hitch’s films including the likes of Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960). Brandon Brown has gone on…

Anyone who’s watched a noir on TCM knows the name Eddie Muller, the “Czar of Noir.” Founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation and the co-programmer of the San Francisco Noir City Film Festival (he’s also from my neck of the woods!), Muller has become TCM’s go-to man for all things dark, gritty, and…

Lifetime, the studio that’s brought back to the biopic in a way that’s both fascinating and terrifying, has set their sights on our favorite “blonde bombshell,” Marilyn Monroe. In honor of their upcoming presentation of The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe this week, I sat down with Monroe biographer Carl Rollyson (whose other, equally amazing biography…