Director Lloyd Bacon and choreographer Busby Berkeley’s 42nd Street has rightfully been heralded as a masterpiece, but less can be said for the film that inspired it: John Murray Anderson’s King of Jazz (1930). One […]
Film historian Maureen Lee Lenker returns with the latest edition of her column, Dame in the Game: an in-depth look at groundbreaking women in film. Though she is little known today, Lois Weber was one […]
By Wade Sheeler For film noir fanatics and fans, Detour is well known, well discussed and well argued. It’s considered one of the great film noirs of all time, embracing the doomed characters, existential plot […]
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