At the end of every year I, like many people, take stock of the events that took place throughout the previous months. I reassess the bad moments, trying to find ways that I could’ve avoided […]
There are countless film and television adaptations of Charles Dickens’s novella A Christmas Carol, a mainstay each holiday season. The most popular of these adaptations include the 1938 version starring Reginald Owen and Gene Lockhart; […]
Tom Gries’ The Hawaiians (1970), the second part of United Artists’ multi-film adaptation of James Michener’s novel “Hawaii,” makes a mistake common to many Hollywood films: they chose a lesser character as protagonist, shoving much […]
THE SHORT VERSION: 20th Century Women is a film about Dorothea, a mother (Annette Bening) trying to raise her son (Lucas Jade Zumann) as a good man, even though his father (literally) is out of […]
We are delighted to introduce The Retro Set’s newest contributor, Maureen Lee Lenker! Maureen’s new column, Dame in the Game, is an exciting new addition to The Retro Set and we are honored to have her […]
One of the great things about films from Hollywood’s pre-Code era (besides the excessive boozing, blatant depictions of sex and strong, independent women) is the runtime. A vast majority of films made between the early […]
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