Hello and welcome back to Criterion Crunch Time! I’m surprised it took this long (4 movies total), but this week, we are watching our first French film. This month, one of the...
As a fifteen-year-old, I decided to read the novel The Razor’s Edge. It was published in 1944 and it was written by some guy called W. Somerset Maugham who looked awfully serious...
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...
Where and when we watch movies are crucial to how much we enjoy them. There are so many variables at play - watching alone rather than with friends, in the cinema versus...
With each passing day, it feels like our world gets a little stranger. News outlets continually outdo one another for head-scratching headlines; politicians routinely rip up the fabric of law and justice,...
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,...
When people think of iconic on-screen romantic pairings, their minds tend to go to Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn or Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart. These thoughts are driven by the fact...
