Alyssa Rosenberg (whose work I think is fantastic) poses a great question: ...it struck me all over again how few movies we have about the Revolutionary War. I’d looked into this a couple of years ago, but it’s really kind of stunning. The success of...
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Edward Copeland with an absolutely fantastic discussion of Hitchcock's superb Strangers on a Train, especially Robert Walker's titanic work as the uber-creepy Bruno. Copeland concludes: Finally, there's the climax on.
Interesting... Meanwhile, opinions about Henry Potter’s character have changed over the years. In light of the housing-market crisis, the fiscally responsible banker may not have been such a bad guy.
For people who need additional reasons to loathe Michael Bay and Shia LeBeouf: Given that Michael Bay auditioned Megan Fox for the Transformers franchise by making her wash his Ferrari, it’s not particularly shocking that Fox got sick of working for the guy. And honestly, it’s not...
Mark Hamill on Sam Fuller: The image of Lee Marvin threatening to shoot Mark Hamill as the latter tries to assemble a bangalore torpedo on Omaha Beach is one of.
In the comments to yesterday's post on German Civil War reenactors, people mentioned Germans' love of westerns. This reminded of the remarkable box set released by First Run Features a.
I've often wondered; you put Michael Caine on that island with Toshiro Mifune and Lee Marvin, who wins? Via AG.
RIP Tony Curtis. And I can't seem to find an embeddable version of this clip in English:
At the beginning of the summer of 1998, I bought a computer. There was some problem with the credit card swipe, and they had to run it twice. Two days.