The Warner Archive Collection recently released two box sets of Danny Kaye’s greatest films. During the 1940s, Kaye had an uninterrupted string of critically and financially successful films, four of which are available in Danny […]
Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief combines both genres of WWII fiction and coming of age tale. The story covers themes of innocence and humanity wrapped in a bilingual structure. Despite potential difficulties in translating these […]
By Wade Sheeler The Warner Archive Collection recently released two box sets of Danny Kaye’s greatest films. During the 1940s, Kaye had an uninterrupted string of critically and financially successful films, four of which are […]
There’s a scene in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) where stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) makes violent love to his trophy wife (Margot Robbie) on a bed of millions in cash. There’s a scene where […]
First things first: Saving Mr. Banks is not a biopic about Walt Disney and it is therefore unfair to judge it as one. In not discussing Walt Disney the anti-Semitic maniacal workaholic, but rather Uncle […]
American adaptions of foreign films have an important task to accomplish: they must seamlessly adapt themes of another culture for an American audience. That task is made harder when it is both a cult film […]
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