Robert Towne once raved that ‘all contemporary escapist entertainment begins withThe 39 Steps’– and as the man who wroteChinatown, he’d definitely know what he’s talking about. The magic in this endlessly re-enjoyable Hitchcock effort, an early blueprint for Hitch classics to come, comes...
But if “The Sound of Music” has incandescent songs, as well as a singular true-life story about the Von Trapp Family Singers (seven motherless Austrian children returned to vitality through the life force of Julie Andrews’ nun-turned-governess Maria), the movie’s secret weapon is its ...
You loved the movie and you want more. The studio loves money, and they want more too. That’s how sequels come into existence — and this year we’re beingbombarded by them, with newSonic the HedgehogandFantastic Beastsinstallments already in theaters, andTop Gun 2,Hocus Pocus 2,anotherJ...
Later, Arthur’s military legacy was raised in the sixteenth century by British imperialists who saw his legendary conquests as a blueprint for a ‘British Empire’; claims that were countered by the scepticism of figures like Polydore Vergil, who expressed doubt on Arthur’s historicity to the...
so strange as a mile-marker of contemporary film noir; like many of its progenitors, it’s about a guy who makes the lethal error of trying to solve a mystery by thinking with his dick, and a woman who blinds him using nothing more or less than his own gaze as her weapon of choice...
Robert Towne once raved that ‘all contemporary escapist entertainment begins withThe 39 Steps’– and as the man who wroteChinatown, he’d definitely know what he’s talking about. The magic in this endlessly re-enjoyable Hitchcock effort, an early blueprint for Hitch classics to come, comes...