Cinemas Greatest Scenes: When Ben-Hur first meets Jesus.
There had been nothing like it before with its scale, sweeping scope and spectacle. It smashed box office records andContinue Reading
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Cinemas Greatest Scenes: The French Connection’s Car Chase.
The Library of Congress wasn’t wrong to include The French Connection into its registry as being “culturally, historically or aestheticallyContinue Reading
Halloween Special: Cinemas Greatest Scenes: ‘The Closet’ scene from Halloween (1978).
John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) just might be the mother of all slasher movies. It launched forty years of knock offsContinue Reading
What makes Mildred Pierce a great film noir? Joan Crawford, of course!
Up until about a year ago, I had never seen a Joan Crawford film. Probably an astonishing remark for someoneContinue Reading
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator speech.
In 1938, Charlie Chaplin set to work on his first talking film that would ridicule the German tyrant Adolf Hitler.Continue Reading
Anyone care for some Duck Soup? The Marx Brothers, Revisited.
Mention the Marx Brothers and I instantaneously break out into that stooped walk, with a cigar in hand, made famousContinue Reading
Underrated Movies of the 1990’s: The Fisher King (1991).
Whether you agree with me or not, the 1990’s were an amazing decade of titanic hit and sinking duds atContinue Reading
My Top 5 Jerry Lewis Films of All Time.
It’s hard to believe that, at the time of this article, Jerry Lewis is alive and well! In fact, JerryContinue Reading
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