It’s one of the most iconic images in film comedy: Harold Lloyd, with his round owl glasses and straw hat, dangling perilously from the hands of a clock on the side of a lofty building in downtown Los Angeles. Even…
Ingmar Bergman is one of the most revered filmmakers in the world. His work, both complex and deeply thoughtful, some see his work as too incomprehensible to really understand. Nothing is further from the truth. Largely autobiographical, Wild Strawberries reflects…
In a thirty year career, Joseph H. Lewis made a name for himself directing low-budget action pictures, westerns, and thrillers. Most highly regarded for his work on film noir, Lewis’ most appreciated film is Gun Crazy (1946), a story about…
The Beatles formal break up came in 1970. Paul McCartney wasted little time getting into the studio with his new band Wings, releasing their first album, “Wild Life,” barely a year later in 1971. Wings would release eight more albums…
The first of three Hollywood adaptations of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, the film served to launch Bette Davis to stardom. Davis had already made twenty-two films, all of them largely forgettable, when the role of cruel and manipulative…
An imaginative mix of live action and CGI, Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz. While paying homage to the iconic images and sense of magic seen in the classic, the story…
Based on Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s book of the same name, Killing Lincoln recounts one of the darkest events in American history, and details how one gunshot changed the country forever. Originally aired on The National Geographic Channel in…
A major movie star during the silent era, Gloria Swanson had made a relatively successful transition to the sound era (even garnering an Oscar nomination for The Trespasser in 1930), though her career never reached the height it had in…
Another in a growing number of films that seek to offer alternate versions of popular fairy tales, Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer reworks Jack the Giant Killer. As is often the case with these films, our hero has a…
Widely regarded as one of the funniest movies ever made, The Producers (1968) has had its detractors from the start, seen as offensive by many moviegoers and critics alike when it was first released. “Dismally unfunny satire,” wrote Leslie Halliwell….