The fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation. The activities of a fifth column can be overt or ...

This ten-part personal essay on iconic director Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie was part of Maddy’s Third Master of Suspense Blogathon. Click here for the site in general, which is called Classic Film and ...

This ten-part personal essay on iconic director Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is part of Maddy’s Second Master of Suspense Blogathon. Click here to view the blog entry and here for the site in general, ...

Perhaps the highest compliment I can give to Canyon Passage is that it may be the most fascinating western to come from the Classical Hollywood era. Adapted from a 1945 Saturday Evening Post novelette ...

Distilling the aspirations, anxieties, contradictions and self-delusions of the Reagan era with a surgical precision that now feels downright uncanny, Lost in America (1985) is not only Albert Brooks’ ...

There is nothing like a career best performance. There are some actors who have many of them and there are some who don’t have any. But even among the best of the best, there are roles that are so ...

Ealing Studios was one of Britain’s premiere movie studios having been founded in the early 1900s. There were some golden nuggets, but the studio really engendered its cachet in the post war years ...

Toho Studios has a long and varied career, not only known as the studio that produced and distributed Godzilla (1954) and all of its progeny but also the studio that produced many of the world’s ...

It’s such a glorious decade. Between cheesy entertainment of the highest order to bonafide classics, the 1950s was the last real decade of “‘”Old Hollywood,” but also a decade when upstarts like ...

Ok, first off, I am not a Jurassic Franchise apologist. I have been brought up on dinosaur movies since I was a kid. Dad bought me a dinosaur book that I gave to my kid when he was born and the whole ...

SPOILER: IF YOU DO NOT LIKE SUPERHERO MOVIES, YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN’T BE READING THIS CLASSY AND ERUDITE PIECE OF PROSE. This is the second movie in two days that I watched that had Tom Holland and ...

ORLANDO — Residents of Orlando, visitors and tourists alike, get ready for something truly special in Downtown Orlando: Check out the city’s newest edition, The Canopy. The city has finalized its ...