In 1991, the Discovery Channel aired The Incredibly Strange Film Show, a British docuseries focusing on the world of bizarre cinema. In each one-hour episode,
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Between 1940 and 1944, Preston Sturges wrote and directed a string of seven classic comedies that are unmatched in wit, ingenuity of plot, and briskness
The winter months have descended upon us, and the holidays are nipping at our heels. For the movie lover, nothing puts one in the seasonal
Three years ago, I did a deep dive into Italian genre cinema, specifically gothic horror and giallo films. I was viewing the vast majority of
While Our Hospitality was Buster Keaton’s third feature-length film, it can be argued that it was the first true Keaton feature. In 1920, Buster had
Some comedies elicit huge laughs, while others are simply smile-inducing. My Favorite Year (1982) definitely falls within the “smile” category. However, it is more noteworthy
When it comes to horror movies, I tend to prefer my scares mixed with laughs; and few filmmakers mixed that potent cocktail more expertly than
Based largely on the success of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), the all-star, epic comedy became a popular genre for a brief
When one thinks of Westerns, one pictures sagebrush, dusty trails, sandstone buttes, and other features of an arid landscape. However, there is a small subset
In the decade following World War II, a dark, cynical mood crept into Hollywood cinema which expressed itself in fatalistic crime films and pessimistic melodramas
The Thirties saw hardboiled detectives and screwball socialites put away liquor with equal aplomb. So when the two genres were combined with 1934’s The Thin
The general critical consensus around the work of the great writer-director Billy Wilder is that he had a great run of films in the 1940s
