By the 1980s, the art of composing music for films had undergone several sea changes. The craft moved from traditional orchestration […]
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It is strange to consider how often teen movies are about young women, and how frequently those stories are told by […]
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The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is about Freddy Krueger. With his burn scars, his tattered red and green sweater, his […]
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On May 8, 1970, the AFL-CIO mobilized some two hundred New York City construction workers and sicc’ed them on about a […]
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The 1980s, packed full of kid-driven adventure films, has just as many beautiful disasters as it does universally beloved hits. But […]
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Truffaut’s famous dictum regarding the impossibility of ever making a truly anti-war film is, usually, equally applicable to movies about cops. […]
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The first two minutes of Robert Hiltzik’s 1983 feature film crawl forward from the lake setting with overwhelming Manfredini-esque horns and […]
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Demi Moore’s apartment in St. Elmo’s Fire is a truly fabulous sight to behold. Her living room walls are painted a […]
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“What do you think you are doing?” yells the village elder, to the boys he cannot see. “Playing a game? Who […]
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Genre filmmaking is a precise art, and yes, that includes the much-maligned romantic comedy. A number of intangibles all have to […]
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On the night of September 16th, 1984, Crockett and Tubbs cruised a jet-black Ferrari Daytona convertible into pop culture immortality to […]
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Comedian Robert Klein sometimes does a bit about his role in Hooper, the stuntman movie that unsuccessfully sued The Stunt Man […]
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