Based on Lawrence Block’s novel of the same name and adapted for the screen by Scott Frank (Minority Report) A Walk Among the Tombstones follows the exploits of a former cop, and recovering alcoholic, turned unlicensed PI Matt Scudder (Liam…
The first film version of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel, directed by Edmund Goulding (Wilson) The Razor’s Edge captures one man’s search for the meaning of life. Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power) returns from World War I questioning why he survived, while…
Released seven years after Funny Girl made Barbra Streisand an Oscar winning movie star, Funny Lady had an uneasy production history. Though contractually obligated to do another movie for producer Ray Stark, Streisand balked at doing the film, reportedly telling…
Filmmaker Gregg Araki has made a career of dealing with teenage angst. While his latest effort, White Bird in a Blizzard, is his most adult film to date, he’s careful not to stray too far from familiar territory. Styled similarly…
Though the names were changed, the events depicted in Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind were based on one of the most famous court cases in the first half of the twentieth century. Often referred to as the “Scopes Monkey Trial,”…
If asked to name a 1950 noir starring William Holden and Nancy Olson a majority would understandably name Billy Wilder’s classic Sunset Boulevard. However, there’s another film that meets that criteria, the somewhat forgotten Union Station. Though it’s billed as…
The recent spate of musical biopics over the last decade or so tend to follow a formula: we meet a star at the height of his career, and flashback over his life, beginning with a deprived childhood. From there, life…
Filmed over a twelve year period using the same cast, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is impossible to discuss without at least mentioning how it was completed. This wasn’t a case of special effects wizardry. Instead, the cast and crew gathered annually…
An unconventional Hollywood blockbuster, On Golden Pond is a character driven drama that explores aging, mortality, and reconciliation. Based on the play by Ernest Thompson, On Golden Pond finally earned legendary actor Henry Fonda a Best Actor Academy Award in…
Produced by Hal Wallis and directed by William Dieterle, Wallis had intended Rope of Sand as a reunion for Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. When that plan did pan out, he settled for Burt Lancaster in the lead, and a…