Let’s get one thing out of the way here: I’ve never been a big fan of Westerns. Something about their stories just felt repetitive, so they never resonated with me growing up, or even once […]
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 […]
Rudolph Valentino was arguably Hollywood’s first sex symbol and one of the first stars to create mass hysteria among fans. Valentino’s journey to this superstardom began in the late 1910s doing bit parts. 1921 would […]
Recently, Twilight Time has added two more heady, thoughtful films to their catalogue of oft-forgotten prestige dramas, and these are among their very best yet. Both were made in the early 70s when the Hollywood […]
As stated in a post-credit scrawl, George Harvey Bone is a distinguished London composer. And as will soon be seen, he is well-respected and charming, with devoted friends and a burgeoning artistic career. However, in […]
Referred to by an assenting Susan Sontag as “the phenomenon of the twenties,” Leonard Zelig captured the Jazz Age imagination of an adoring global populace. As recounted in Woody Allen’s Zelig, however, such capricious popularity […]
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