Tag: films
John Ford’s revered masterpiece ‘How Green Was My Valley’ (1941).
If you have read the novel How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn, you will instantly realise what a grim […]
A selected film-by-film history of Warner Bros. Pictures: Jezebel (1938).
One of Warner studio’s most celebrated actresses in the 1930s was a defiant and feisty young woman named Bette Davis. […]
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: The Grapes of Wrath – I’ll Be There speech.
John Ford’s own understanding and fondness of the American people and their history is no more evident than in his […]
A selected film-by-film history of Warner Bros. Pictures: The Public Enemy (1931).
It was during the early years of the Great Depression, a time when Americans were cynical and jaded about their […]
A selected film-by-film history of Warner Bros. Pictures: The Jazz Singer (1927).
It was in the early days of cinema that four brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack Warner arrived in Hollywood […]
Why Rey is of the utmost importance.
I will try to avoid getting too carried away with plot theories and conspiracies in this brief article, simply because for two […]
Amazing Women Who Inspire Us: Claudia Cardinale
Foreign films are a guilty pleasure in my household. Among them are some of the greats Ameile, Cinema Paradiso, 8 […]
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: Sergio Leone’s Mexican Standoff.
In the late sixties, Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966) was harshly criticized for its glorified […]
