More than a quarter-century has passed since Oliver Stone’s electrifying ‘Natural Born Killers’ first thundered onto movie screens for the first time, alighting a hurricane of controversy. By the nineties, […]
Robert Redford, always a political activist, bought the rights to the book written by the two reporters who exposed Watergate, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. He knew in his gut […]
Sidney Lumet’s lacerating black comedy, ‘Network’, which is also a cautionary film about the power of television seemed to see far into the future with blistering clarity, exploring how reality […]
The old fashioned credits begin and over them we hear solemn music, then a solitary horn, lonely and mournful, foreshadowing what J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) will feel by the end […]
It was someday in 1995, I don’t remember exactly which though. I was ten, eleven years old and was in the early stages of the pre-teenage rebellion. Most of my […]
Sitting down to explore the finest films directed by Martin Scorsese, most might think his seething black and white boxing biography ‘Raging Bull’ (1980) might top the list. Visceral, bloody, […]
Do film buffs truly understand just what a groundbreaking film Alfred Hitchcock’s terrifying ‘Psycho’ was? This was a monumental film, breaking fresh ground for a tried and true genre, and […]
I had just turned sixteen the first time I saw ‘Jaws’ (1975) not knowing the film and work of the director would alter the course of my life. The film […]
When Clint Eastwood stepped in to direct the film, there were bowls of protest. Bruce Beresford and Steven Spielberg both toyed with directing the picture, Beresford going so far as […]
There are seven great plays of the 20th century that remain as fresh, as powerful and as urgent as the first day they opened on Broadway. They are ‘Death of […]
Great films that have failed to find an audience have been around since the silent era, so it is no surprise, that in the fifties, the same event took place […]
Sequels achieved their greatest popularity through the seventies and eighties and beyond, though in fairness they have existed since the thirties and the Universal monster series. ‘The Bride of Frankenstein’ […]
When Tennessee Williams wrote ‘The Glass Menagerie’, he drew heavily on his own life, his past and the result was the birth of the neorealistic American theatre. ‘A Streetcar Named […]
We’re living in exciting times. The last ten years has been nothing short of a miracle, where filmmakers have been allowed to take risks and tell exciting stories. The biggest […]
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