That film, featuring Greta Garbo before her jaunt to Hollywood, also marked the beginning of his reputation for making or amplifying female stars at crucial junctures. After making the first film to explicitly tackle Freudian theory as a subject, Secrets of a Soul (1926), Pabst directed two ...
Merle Oberon was a British and American film actress who appeared in more than 30 motion pictures. Her most notable portrayal was that of the beautiful Cathy, who tormented and rejected Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) in the 1939 classic Wuthering Heights.
The beginning of the end for Vulcan "Acting captain's log, stardate 2258.42. We have had no word from Captain Pike. I therefore classified him as a hostage of the war criminal known as Nero. Nero, who has destroyed my home planet and most of its six billion inhabitants. While the ...
Amazon has produced anadaptation of the graphic novelRadioactive, about the life of Marie Curie. Rosamund Pike stars. I am sold. After watching the trailer, I was shocked to re-discover a couple things about her. Obviously, there’s the whole “was the first female winner of the Nobel, ...
THE BACK STORY:Pharrell Williams is nothing short of a modern day musical wunderkind. He’s produced scores of hits for some of the biggest stars in hip-hop, R&B and even pop music, not to mention his work with his band N*E*R*D (No One Ever Really Dies) and his solo career. Bu...
“Saskia is able to transform herself and show an incredible range of emotions – without very much dialogue. She is a true natural talent and, with Lore, is making a phenomenal debut performance as she embarks on the transition from a child into a woman.” (www.shooting-stars.eu) ...
Here, I offer a new interpretation about the beginning of film noir in Britain and the United States. Put simply, the earliest film noirs in these countries were spy films nearly as much as crime films. These “spy noirs” were mainly released during the Second World War era: in the UK...
Richard Pryor also stars as the unforgettable “Piano Man.”February 25, 2021Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story- Streaming on Discovery +SKI BUM: THE WARREN MILLER STORY chronicles the life and times of the legendary filmmaker who, through his annual films and national tours, was a driving ...
He stars in If… (1968), a satire of the student experience amid a strict upper-class English public school. It’s McDowell’s film debut which is worth noting. McDowell, always associated with A Clockwork Orange (1971) first and foremost made several great films in just a few years. ...
The film is silly but in the best of ways. I enjoyed the very beginning and ending most of all. When the Secret Service agent runs down the vast estate driveway amid darkness the mysterious pursuing motorcycle men provide intrigue, and the plot is hatched. ...