How The Blues Brothers Saved American Music
The Blues Brothers (1980) fostered a renewed appreciation of some of the best music America has ever produced.
A collection of 26 posts
The Blues Brothers (1980) fostered a renewed appreciation of some of the best music America has ever produced.
Despite serious flaws, ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is much better than Marvel’s recent offerings. Perhaps the franchise may have turned the corner.
Against long odds and in the face of exclusionary casting, Anna May Wong bequeathed us an extraordinary cinematic legacy.
Like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, it’s chaos alright—but it’s a dazzling chaos.
Chinatown is noir at its bleakest, yet most stylish.
An account of all the lives Corman touched, the careers he helped to jump-start, and the genres he pioneered would fill several books.
Most new movies feature neither good storytelling nor innovative filmmaking. Instead, they rely on the nostalgia of ready-made fan bases.
The French emperor and military commander played a pivotal role in an epochal transformation.
A look back at William Goldman’s bonkers metafictional novel ‘The Princess Bride,’ which later became a much-loved family film.
Neither hagiographers nor haters of the late musician, actor, and activist have managed to get him right.
Meg Smaker’s film about the rehabilitation of former Guantanamo terror suspects was nuanced and sympathetic. But the mob didn’t care.
Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility.
Why is the Atlantic slinging mud at the 72-year-old author of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ on the eve of the film’s release?
Rocky's vision of a good life was humble, traditional, and local.
Although the vaudeville circuits would last through the 1920s, the way was now paved for impressive purpose-built movie houses with proper lighting and sound that would exhibit first-rate popular entertainment to general audiences.