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
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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
One of my cinematic blind spots has always been the Pre-Code early talkie musicals choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It isn’t that I dislike musicals. In
A note before we get started — There are two versions of the 1953 film Beat the Devil, so even if you have seen the
If, like me, you frequent a lot of movie websites and listen to a lot of film podcasts, you could not fail to encounter multiple
While the the satiric, picaresque novel Don Quixote is an acknowledged literary classic, movie producers have failed to crack the code in successfully adapting it
When perusing the filmography of William Friedkin, one might consider The Brink’s Job (1978) to be slight or a minor work. Certainly, Friedkin directed more
Few movie genres are as reliable and enjoyable as the heist film. There is something elementally cinematic about watching a team of professionals assemble, plan
With the collapse of the production code at the end of the 1960s, Hollywood entered an era of independence and creativity unseen since the late
With the success of the James Bond films Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963), movie studios around the world were on the
