Thursday, April 3, 2025

Kristin Battestella

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An Ingrid Bergman Potluck

Famed for her international beauty, classic films, and then scandals as well as awards – Ingrid Bergman's talent is well known even to the movie layman, thanks to a big name picture...

Op-Ed: Unusual Ralph Fiennes Pieces

Ralph Fiennes is well known for big villains like Voldemort and Schindler's List or dramatic epics like The English Patient or his recent tenure as James Bond's boss M. However, Fiennes' impressive...

Op-Ed: Modern Shakespearean Looks

  These outside the box contemporary Shakespeare adaptations bend time, place, and drama for unique, ever relevant looks at the same old Bard.   Macbeth (2015) Director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown) helms Michael Fassbender (Shame)...

Op-Ed: Five Non-Bond Pierce Brosnan Ventures

Like his tenure as 007, there are a few ho hum and uneven pictures in Pierce Brosnan's extensive repertoire. Here's an eclectic variety of Brosnan sans Bond – ranked from good to...

Op-Ed: A Few Shakespeare Classics

Let's “between you and I” combine our classic film studies and Shakespearean analysis in this chronological quartet of mid-century escapades in Bard. “The game's afoot!”   Othello (1952) Rightly or wrongly; egotistical writer, director, producer,...

‘In a Lonely Place’ is steeped in Modern Examinations

Humphrey Bogart's washed up screenwriter Dixon Steele is suspected of murder and it seriously strains his newfound relationship with girl next door Gloria Grahame (It's a Wonderful Life) in director Nicholas Ray's...

Classic Movie Review: ‘The Little Foxes’ Remains a Timely Character Study

Wannabe southern belle Regina Giddens (Bette Davis) will use anyone to orchestrate her climb towards more wealth – including her wheelchair bound husband Horace (Herbert Marshall) and their growing daughter Alexandra (Theresa...

Op-Ed: The Elusive Non-Western John Wayne

John Wayne made a lot, and I mean a lot, of westerns. Legend says he also made enough war movies that people thought he actually served in World War II. Here, however,...

Kristin Battestella

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