For many years, it was popular to shrug off William Wyler’s antebellum melodrama Jezebel (1938) as a rip-off of David O. Selznick’s Gone with the Wind. Fiery, outspoken, bitchy southern belle? Check. A heroine whose modernity […]
Holy crap, guys. This film. I’m really not using The Retro Set as a therapy couch, I would just like to point the finger at TCM’s Summer Under the Stars movie marathon. Every day of the month, the classic […]
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n the balmy, Halloween morning of October 31st 1968, a bloodied corpse was discovered at 3110 Laurel Canyon Blvd in the hills above Hollywood. The body, beaten beyond recognition, belonged to a man who, 40 […]
By Drew Morton What makes Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity the greatest film noir? First, and this is veering away from the text of the film itself for just a moment, Double Indemnity is significant for the very reason […]
When you think of Alfred Hitchcock movies, what comes to mind? Knife jutting through a shower curtain? Cary Grant dodging a low-flying biplane? Birds, and lots of them? Equally iconic as these scenes, Hitchcock’s leading […]
28 years ago today saw the release of a summer actioner that changed the game. Die Hard was a successful conflagration of several elements, tried and true as well as groundbreaking, that became the new shorthand for action […]
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