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 →Monthly Archives: August 2010
Oh Ugawood, Land of Filmmaking’s Future!
Uganda’s film industry is growing. Here’s a report on how the democratization of filmmaking technology is helping the nation’s aspiring film artists make their own stories: This is great news, because for every quality picture like General Idi Amin Dada and…
Read more →Macho, Macho Movies
Does The Expendables, which is smashing into theaters with a cast that includes Stallone, Statham, Li, Rourke, Austin, Lundgren, Couture, Crews, Willis, Schwarzenegger, et al., have the toughest cast of all time? Well, it certainly is one of the most…
Read more →Director Todd Solondz & Life During Wartime
The last time we saw Todd Solondz, he was promoting his film Palindromes. One of the story threads of the film involved a character who bombed abortion clinics. Word on the street was that members of right to life groups…
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…
Read more →Ten Things To Know About The Big Lebowski
Here are 10 trivia facts about The Big Lebowski from 1998, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and…
Read more →Kick-Ass
You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! “For the last time: I’m NOT Dolly from Toy Story 3. My name is Hit Girl…and here’s…
Read more →The Grapes of Wrath: The Timeless Vision of Steinbeck, Zanuck, Ford and Toland
Over half a century after The Grapes of Wrath was released, we tend to forget the minor miracle that conservative prewar Hollywood produced a powerful and radical film that according to author John Steinbeck was “harsher” than his Nobel Prize…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 08.08.10
August 9, 1930: The Fleischer Studio’s Betty Boop sashays onto the screen (as a dog!) in the cartoon short Dizzy Dishes. August 14, 1940: Top screenwriter of Easy Living and If I Were King, Preston Sturges, makes his directorial debut…
Read more →Last of the Living: Zombies, New Zealand Style
Being a zombie movie fan, I’ve sat through some great ones (Fulci’s Zombie) and some real junk like Children of the Living Dead, but no matter what I go into all of them with an open mind and hoping for the…
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