by Nathanael Hood It wasn’t the first Hollywood film on jazz, but it was damn near the best. Cobbling together some of jazz’s leading luminaries in 1944, Life photographer Gjon Mili shot his first and […]
by Andy Ross There’s a lot of layers to peel away when talking about Columbia’s 1953 production of Miss Sadie Thompson. Based on the W. Somerset Maugham short story “Miss Thompson,” later changed to “Rain,” […]
“The door of Henry’s lunch-room opened and two men came in. They sat down at the counter.” So begins Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 short story “The Killers,” which begat two feature length films, an innumerable amount […]
On the surface, 1943’s The Gang’s All Here released by 20th Century Fox, appears to be one of many World War Two era morale boosting escapist films. But this one is in the hands of […]
From a man trying to do right, to a man simply doing wrong, Edward G. Robinson has worn the black and white hats of numerous iconic characters spanning all eras. Playing mob bosses and family men, […]
Watching Stanley Donen’s Deep in My Heart, a biographical musical about the life of famed musical and operetta composer Sigmund Romberg, I was reminded of an observation I once made about Michael Curtiz’s Yankee Doodle […]
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