Guest blogger Cam Wilson writes: The Small Back Room is a not-so-well-known but very engaging 1949 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. After bringing some big-budget movies to the screen, the director-writer duo decided to scale down to a…
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The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
Guest blogger Joe Malone writes: I like to go to plays. Not Broadway extravaganzas, but community and university theater productions. Unfortunately, my spouse doesn’t share this interest — which cuts back on my dramatical attendance, except when our daughter comes…
Read more →Fifty Years Ago, When Art Was Cool…
Guest blogger Scott Nye writes: A lot has been made about this year being the 50th anniversary of Psycho and Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, especially with the latter embarking on a cross-country tour, courtesy of a newly-struck 35mm print. But two…
Read more →In Appreciation of Ivy, Hildy and Claire
If that picture on the left or the names in the above title mean anything to you, then congratulations, you have seen On the Town (1949), one of the greatest musicals ever. I watched it again recently and was struck by…
Read more →Moon (2010): You Saw Me Standing Alone
Duncan Jones nostalgic sci-fi space romp, Moon, is a mostly well known film in certain circles, with those circles mainly consisting of people who are passionate fans of cinema in one form or another. Outside of those too cool for…
Read more →The Aviator (2004): Movie Review
If you have read the review I had published for Shutter Island, there is a particular section in the article where I cover the topic of cameo appearances. It can be tremendously distracting for me if I recognize too many…
Read more →The Great Train Robbery
Whomever said overt violence on film is a sad reflection on the effects of modern technology and overexposure to violence in video games has never seen Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery released in 1903. Plenty of violence and…
Read more →The Thief of Bagdad and Simpler Times
When I was a kid, way back in the midst of the Seventies, movie viewing was restricted to visits to the cinema or the schedules of three TV channels. That’s right, kids, there was a dark time in our history…
Read more →Salvador Dali Makes an Impression on Psycho
In this guest blog, writer Joel Gunz presents a pictorial examination of how the art of Salvador Dalí influenced and impacted the works of Alfred Hitchcock. (Whom Gunz lovingly refers to as “Hitch”). Take a look at the two pictures below. If Hitch…
Read more →Rethinking the Mystery Genre
Guest blogger This Guy Over Here writes: Note: there are some spoilers in this article. Please proceed with caution. Through the years film’s different genres come and go in popularity. Some films have had their heyday (science fiction), some have…
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