Movies
Nineteen Eighty-Four is Here.
My last year of high school, I served in the tech crew for the drama club’s production of Into the Woods. My only tasks were to a) pull the trap door lever for the Witch’s […]
Richard Burton
Movies
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? AT 50
At first, the studio wanted Bette Davis. But no, that wouldn’t have worked; audiences could expect cruelty and hysteria from an actress who had proven herself both bitch and beauty queen. After seeing her sit […]
Photographic Evidence
Never Won an Oscar: The Actors
With the Academy Awards ceremony coming up this Sunday, February 22, we decided to take a look at some of the best actors and actresses who never won an Oscar for their acting talents. In this gallery, […]
Opinion
Iguana on a Hot Tin Roof
By CARLEY JOHNSON It’s the heat that makes you crazy. I’m not talking about the dry, arid heat that more or less defines the American West– the kind of heat that, even at 100 degrees, […]
Opinion
History Fail: Hollywood’s Period Problem
A word of explanation: this started off as a simple review of the recent Blu-ray release of Sydney Pollack’s The Way We Were. That seminal ’70s sobber has enjoyed a terrific transfer from Twilight Time–one […]
Books
The Best Film You’ve Never Seen
The title really does say it all. But what works best about Robert K. Elder’s new release The Best Film You’ve Never Seen is that this is not a book about guilty pleasures. It’s about […]