Current impressions will often skew or shape one’s perception of a classic film. It’s hard, forexample, to look back at a historical moment in time and not draw associations between that period’s politics — the tactics […]
by A.C. Miller We would like to welcome our newest contributor to the fold, A.C. Miller, author of the Young Adult Dystopian novel, Nimbus. A.C. is a massive cinephile—especially films with Gene Tierney and Humphrey Bogart. When […]
In most movies about the infamous 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, the titular shootout serves as the climax—Roger Ebert once famously wrote that in John Ford’s My Darling Clementine (1946), perhaps […]
By the mid-50s, John Wayne had long abandoned playing characters in his movies. Instead—with very rare exceptions like John Ford’s The Searchers (1956)—John Wayne was content with playing John Wayne. Tough, authoritative, and incalculably charismatic, […]
In all of film history, there are few greater tragedies than the fact that only a handful of the 60-70 silent films directed by John Ford still survive to this day. Ford, one of American […]
Juzo Itami’s Tampopo is perhaps sadly destined to be forever overshadowed by its own reputation as the greatest food porn movie ever made. It’s tragic because behind all the luscious close-ups of scrumptious food is […]
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