Book review by Diana Saenger 

Casablanca Film Trivia: Here’s Looking At You Kid is a great triva book about the classic movie that will offer film fans hours of fun. Anyone who thinks they're an obsessed fan of the movie Casablanca hasn't met author Tom Barnes. Although he was born two weeks before Casablanca came out, he eventually became a fan of older movies, especially Casablanca.

Perry Mason is an attorney who specializes in defending seemingly indefensible cases. With the aid of his secretary Della Street and investigator Paul Drake he often finds that by digging deeply into the facts startling facts can be revealed. With Barbara Hale as Perry's loyal secretary Della Street; William Hopper as his loyal right-hand-man Paul Drake; Ray Collins as Lt. Arthur Tragg; Lee Miller as Sgt. Brice and William Talman as District Attorney Hamilton Burger rounded out the show every well. Following up on the release of the first two seasons of the iconic TV show Perry Mason, is the Paramount Home Entertainment/CBS release of Perry Mason: 50th Anniversary Edition.

Invading Martians will hit the screen at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' "George Pal: Discovering the Fantastic" event on Wednesday, August 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The centennial celebration, hosted by director Joe Dante ("Gremlins"), will feature a panel discussion with several Pal collaborators as well as a screening of two Pal "Puppetoons" and "The War of the Worlds" (1953) in its entirety.

Barry Levinson's The Natural (1984) didn't win any of the fours Oscar's it was nominated for, but is still what I would call a classic. Many classic movie fans still list The Natural among their top favorites. Adapted for the screen by Robert Towne from the novel by Bernard Malamud, the 1939 story is about Roy Hobbs, a baseball player who yearned to stand at home plate from the time his father first pitched him a ball. Robert Redford plays Hobbs, and the movie also stars Glenn Close, Wilford Brimley, Kim Basinger, Robert Prosky and Robert DuVall.