Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Wes Anderson does it again in Moonrise Kingdom, an endearing film following a pair of young lovers as they escape into the gaping wilderness to to be together. It's a sweet film that is beautifully conducted and endearingly ...

Blame Mame

Blame Mame is just a beautiful little classic movie blog, period. Owned and operated by Craig, the thing that really sets this site apart is the gorgeous design and graphics all created by the man himself.

But it's not al...

Lon Chaney YouTube Festival

Thanks for hanging around Pretty Clever Films for the Lon Chaney birthday festivities. Just in case you couldn't stay home all day to watch Lon Chaney on TCM or you just didn't get enough Lon Chaney, I've put together a little Lon Chaney YouTube fest...

Top 5 Lon Chaney Movies

Today is the birthday of Lon Chaney, Sr. - "The Man of  a Thousand Faces." Chaney was not only one of early cinema's most powerful actors, he's famous for the transformative makeup, costumes, and sometimes outright brutal physical self abuse he emplo...

Lon Chaney, "The Man of a Thousand Faces"

To celebrate the amazing Lon Chaney, I've put together a slideshow of a few of his most famous characters. Consider these images a teaser, because still images do not do justice to Lon Chaney's tranformative performances. For example, in Mr. Wu

The Lon Chaney Home Page

See as how it's Lon Chaney's birthday (born Apri 1, 1883) I thought it only fitting that today's movie site of the day be a fabulous Lon Chaney resource. And that's precisely what The Lon Chaney Home Page is!

There is absoultely nothing fancy at T...

Review: The Ace of Hearts (1921)

Lon Chaney's The Ace of Hearts is pretty heavy stuff for 1921. In the Chaney filmography, it appears shortly after truly twisted  The Penalty, the movie which earned Chaney the reputation for both g...