Richard Fleischer’s 1968 film The Boston Strangler is based on a real life horrific string of grisly murders in the Boston area in the early 1960s. Adapted from Gerold Frank’s book of the same name, […]
What a ghastly little cretin lives on the ground floor of 10 Rillington Place. Short, fat, and balding, the little round spectacles complete the mousey persona of John Christie, one of the most notorious post-World […]
For a solid 20 years or so, it seemed every hipster was sporting a “Che Guevera” t-shirt. His image became as ubiquitous as lumberjack beards are today. Were you to ask these neophytes who Guevera was, or […]
BY WADE SHEELER Tawdry, lurid, and angst-ridden, Richard Fleischer’s taut and titillating melodrama, Violent Saturday, plumbs the depths of post World War depravity and displays it in full, much like some of the better 1950s soap […]
In his book Hollywood Genres, film scholar Thomas Schatz mobilizes an evolutionary model to describe film genres. For simplicity sake, Schatz posits that a genre essentially moves from classical to baroque in its style and conventions […]
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