Described by its director Stephan Elliott as a “musical comedy and road movie with a difference,” The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert introduced Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce to international audiences. Since its release in 1994, the film has gone on to gain…
Bill Hicks is widely regarded as one of the best comedians of all time. Sadly, Hicks died in 1994, succumbing to pancreatic cancer at just 32. Honestly, I was only vaguely familiar with Bill Hicks before watching the newly released BBC documentary, American: The Bill…
Shot on location in Mexico, 1954’s Vera Cruz was a new kind of western for the time. Filmed in Superscope, featuring sweeping landscapes, and multiple gun battles, and stars Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, rarely has a films tagline—“The Giants Battle in the Biggest Spectacle…