Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors (BearManor Media, 350 pages, $24.95) By Nat Segaloff In a business where you’re only as good as your last film, it is surprising to learn that […]
This post is part of The Retro Set’s Friday column The Retro Set Horror Corner, hosted by Meaghan Clohessy Audiences look for the safety nets in horror films. The use of daylight, heightened musical tones, and […]
Every other Thursday a group of friends get together for Bad Movie Night. Tonight, we had a new person enter the fold, full of questions about what it is exactly that makes a “bad movie” […]
As remarkable as 1939 is in the history of film, there is only one director who accomplished a hat trick that year. Iconic Western director John Ford crafted three films in that 12 month period […]
Peter Bogdanovich is the closest the American cinema has gotten to having a Jean-Luc Godard or François Truffaut figure: a hybrid of film critic and filmmaker. After writing books on directors such as John Ford, […]
This post is part of The Retro Set’s Friday column The Retro Set Horror Corner, hosted by Meaghan Clohessy. Horror movies have always been a quick moneymaker. Once a new angle to the genre is […]
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