Last year, I did a piece on films that received a ton of notoriety with their lengthy production and overblown budgets which resulted in critical failure for most, but some received actual...
Upon his sudden death in 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The world of art is poorer with the passing of Irving Thalberg. His high ideals, insight, and imagination went into the production...
Gone With The Wind. An episode of The Golden Girls. Any standup comedy in the 70s and 80s. With the radical social climate of today, people are looking at our history towards historical figures, symbols,...
As we enter the Fall, Criterion's next set of new releases and re-releases are part of the continuing recognition of these visionaries in their achievements. One independent trailblazer has two films getting...
And, we have the second wave coming. We opened up early, the number of cases went up, skeptics are learning the hard way, and I'm being forced to suffocate some more with...
Two years ago, I wrote my historical piece on Australia's artistic breakthrough in the 1970s and early 80s. Along with its foundations, there was also a partial list of landmark films that...
In this time of turmoil and unrest, there seems to be a feeling of radical change demanded that could fundamentally alter basic principles on how they act and how they think when...
If you ever saw the subline, "Based On True Events," it means the movie's actions and characters may not totally be real, but something of the sort did go down. And sure...