“That twinkle in your eye,” Clark Gable marvels at Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own. “Wrap it up for […]
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Like The Stepford Wives, I’d avoided the original Rollerball due to a flaw over which it had no responsibility: spawning an […]
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One of the most excruciating and heartbreaking aspects to Bruce Lee’s death in 1973 – beyond his tender age (32) and […]
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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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“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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When a filmmaker tells you what influenced them, believe it. Back in 2017, when Jordan Peele was making the rounds promoting […]
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It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong, and I’m 6’4”, so I admit that I’m wrong a lot. […]
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Chantal Akerman was 25 years old when her technically groundbreaking, emotionally devastating, and alternately revered and reviled Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai […]
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The first cut comes a few minutes into the second scene of Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker, and it happens so quickly […]
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When the semi-annual conversation on female buddy movies resurfaces, there are usual suspects. Thelma and Louise. B.A.P.S. Romy and Michelle’s High […]
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John Frankenheimer’s 1966 thriller Seconds is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel as part of their Saul Bass centennial,and his distinctive […]
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The Harlem-set blaxploitation movies of the 1970s – films like Super Fly, Black Caesar, and Hell Up in Harlem – share […]
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