Did Kubrick Drive His Second Wife to Suicide and Is That Why He Made This Haunting Film of Sexual Obsession?
especially considering that it’s only the second time Eon Productions was “on their own” with no novel to draw from. We got the second coming of Richard Kiel’s 7-foot, steel-toothed Jaws, memorable weightless nookie, and a “Bond girl” whose naughty name (Holly Goodhead) flew entire...
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...
I expected a bit more from Teri Hatcher’s character of Paris Carver, a former girlfriend of Bond who is now Carver’s trophy wife. The setup was superior and the love triangle could have gone further than killing off her character after just a couple of scenes. As great as an actor a...
22. Second Chance (II) (1947) 24. The White Line (1950) 25. The Glass Menagerie (1950) 26. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) 27. Northwest Passage (1940) 27. The Walls of Malapaga (1949) 29. The Maltese Falcon (1941) 30. Au Royaume Des Cieux (1949) 30. On the Town (...
After he loses his job after voting against a Mafia kingpin in a ‘secret’ election, Mimi leaves his frazzled wife Rosalia (Agostina Belli) to find work. He moves to Turin, where he engages in an affair with a Communist organizer, Fiorella Meneghini (Melato). ...
He had two children with his second wife, one of whom is an actor. Birthplace: Finland, Helsinki Nationality: Finland Kaija Pakarinen The Man Without a Past, Letters to Father Jacob, Stars Above Kaija Pakarinen is an actress. Birthplace: Finland, Rääkkylä Nationality: Finland Iina Kuu...
the second film is more or less a remake of the first, and the moment when the series really hits its stride, but all three of them are stylish and improbably entertaining, what with the two-handed gunfights and the Mexican stand-offs (of course) and the thousands of squibs popping on...
We wonder what he sees in her when his deceased wife ‘Rebecca’ was gorgeous, affluent, and a perfectionist. Rebecca was presumed to have drowned in a terrible boating accident but as events unfold we wonder if there’s more to the story. If only the characters communicated with each other...
In the second installment, British super spy Austin Powers (Meyers) must return to 1969, as arch-nemesis Dr. Evil (Meyers) has ventured back to that year and successfully stolen Austin’s “mojo,” set up a powerful laser and aimed it at Earth. ...