Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Op-eds

A Day In Monaco: Films Set In The Famous Principality

Monaco.    A small nation-state within France and a place where the rich come to live and avoid paying taxes. For Hollywood, Monaco is immediately associated with Princess Grace Kelly who went from winning...

The House That Lars Built: Inside Von Trier’s Madness And Genius

There is no middle ground when it comes to Lars Von Trier’s films. You either love them or hate them. His films have always provoked a strong reaction with many defending his...

Op-Ed: The Inevitability of the Legacyquel

More people worldwide have spent money on seeing Top Gun: Maverick in a movie theater than the combined world grosses of Moonfall, Dog, The Lost City, Ambulance, The Northman, The Unbearable Weight...

Op-Ed: Todd Hayne’s ‘Far From Heaven’ Honors Sirk’s ‘All That Heaven Allows’ In The Best Way Possible

Many current filmmakers aim, and miss, for the past glory of the golden age of Hollywood, whether that be adapting the life stories of history’s biggest stars into standard biopics, trying to...

Film at 25: ‘The Lost World: Jurassic Park’ Remains a Rare Spielberg Misfire 

Director: Steven Spielberg Writer: David Koepp Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn, Pete Postlethwaite Synopsis: A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an...

Op-ed: Evolution of the Modern Western

Since the golden age of cinema, there has been something quite comforting about the western genre, which made them perfect for a quiet Sunday afternoon in front of the T.V. They often...

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,...

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