Ruby Gentry has very little in the way of ambiguity. Directed by King Vidor, released on Christmas day in 1952, this hothouse southern drama seethes with frank sexuality and melodramatic tension. Set primarily in the […]
Tom Gries’ The Hawaiians (1970), the second part of United Artists’ multi-film adaptation of James Michener’s novel “Hawaii,” makes a mistake common to many Hollywood films: they chose a lesser character as protagonist, shoving much […]
By Drew Morton In the construction of my noir canon, I set myself two ground rules at the start: I would cover only the classical period from 1941 to 1958 and I would limit the […]
For people like me belonging to that muddled Gen X/Gen Y transitional hybrid generation (our loyalties are staunchly Gen X, demographic timelines lump us with Gen Y), a film like Richard Fleischer’s Soylent Green was […]
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