Guest writer Chris Edwards presents a look at a groundbreaking film classic, Battleship Potemkin: “Part One: The Men and the Maggots.” The words are rendered in tall, heavy text. White against black. Spartan, unflinching. Unluxurious, unadorned. Simple, functional. Communist. Scene…
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Guest blogger Red Beard writes: I left the humidity of Washington, DC yesterday to return to the beautiful weather of Southern California. (Sadly I left the even more beautiful future Mrs. Red Beard….sigh). On a lot of flights that across…
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Guest blogger Priscilla writes: How would you do without the electric lights to which you are so accustomed? What if you had only fires and gas lights to see by after sundown? Even better – or more terrifying – what…
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Guest blogger Will Silver writes: This may be one of the hardest reviews I’ve ever written. Above all, I want to do justice to the film and to the memory of the Fightin’ First, The Big Red One. Like never…
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Guest blogger The Lady Eve writes: Marlene Dietrich is one of the very few film stars whose career not only spanned 60+ years but who also enjoyed icon status for most of those years. Her life in film began in…
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Guest blogger Laurence Lerman of Disc Dish writes: Disc Dish recently had a sit-down with actress Sally Hawkins to talk about her latest film, the lively, up-lifting Made In Dagenham, which opened theatrically last fall and will be released on…
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Guest blogger Sophie Stephenson writes: These days it comes as no surprise to associate a film’s merit to its leading actor or actress rather than the director or writer, but a century ago, as the medium of film began its ascent…
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Guest blogger FCEtier writes: She was Playboy’s “Miss January” in 1955. I was two years old. In the era of the “sweater girls,” it would be years before I became aware of Bettie Page and what a “pin-up” was. Mangham,…
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Guest blogger Chuck Tryon writes: I’ve been fascinated by the response to the news that Alcon Entertainment, best known for bringing us The Blind Side, has secured TV and film rights to Blade Runner, a move that would allow them to do…
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Guest blogger Rory B. writes: I shouldn’t have done it but I watched thee Irene Dunne films in three days. I like them in the order I watched. First there was The Awful Truth (1937), a film I’ve already seen five times. The Awful Truth…
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