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There is one cinema gimmick that always works for me and can sometimes lift a movie out of the ordinary and take it somewhere unexpected. And this usually occurs when someone either puts on a mask or appears in one. The simple act of doing this immediately brings something theatrical and visually arresting to the [...] READ MOREMILLIONAIRES IN PRISON. Great title and the sort of news headline I’d like to see in an era where Wall Street robber barons and corporate raiders are creating a new society of haves and have-nots. READ MORE“I AM NOT YOUR MOTHER!” – Sergeant Jim Moore READ MOREThat was how Preston Sturges described his screenplay for REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940), directed by Mitchell Leisen. Overlooked and underrated for years, this small scale but intimate romantic drama has become a new Yuletide favorite thanks to frequent airings on TCM and its availablity on DVD. READ MOREOn first impressions this may look like just another grade B bank heist thriller but don’t be fooled. This 1957 independent pickup by United Artists is a genuine loose canon and highly peculiar within its own specialized genre. In the best heist thrillers, the robbery is usually ingeniously planned and executed (Rififi) but when it [...] READ MOREMilan, Italy is world famous as a mecca for high fashion, design and the AC Milan football club but the statistics also reveal that it is one of Europe’s most polluted cities, if not the worst, due to smoke spewing factories and auto emissions. Against this gray, industrial backdrop, Luigi Comencini has set his rarely [...] READ MOREWhat is the connection between the three? The answer lies in a 1968 documentary that was produced by Kartemquin Films, the non-profit documentary collective that was founded in 1966 in Chicago by Gordon Quinn, Jerry Temaner and Stan Karter and has produced such acclaimed work as Hoop Dreams (1995), Vietnam, Long Time Coming (1998), the [...] READ MOREEverybody has probably been haunted or permanently disturbed by some movie they saw as a kid that burned images into their brain they couldn’t process or handle. For me it was a sick little B-movie that popped up on the late show called THE HYPNOTIC EYE (1960) which I saw at the age of eight. [...] READ MOREAs Hollywood’s newest stars get younger and I get older, I find comfort and inspiration in the career arcs of certain actors who might have made a big splash in their youth but stayed the course and became supreme masters of their craft. Some like Dick Powell totally reinvented themselves with an entirely new persona [...] READ MORE“I gave up weightlifting because I hate repeating everything.” – Taylor Mead READ MORE |
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