Henry Hathaway’s Call Northside 777 (1948) Movie
Henry Hathaway’s follow-up to his neo-realist pulp piece “Kiss of Death” is a riveting exploration of a true-life miscarried justice …
Social History
South Solitary (2010) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Shirley Barrett’s debut feature, 1996’s Love Serenade, won the Cannes Camera d’Or prize that year, and established her as an …
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Former TV director Franklin J. Schaffner had climbed to the top of the Hollywood pyramid helming galumphing great studio productions …
Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (Shurayukihime: Urami Renga,1974) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A cobbled-together sequel to Toshiya Fujita’s classic is hampered by a storyline that suggests mastermind Kazuo Koike’s playbook was exhausted …
The Bostonians (1984) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The Merchant Ivory nomenclature, spoken so lovingly in trailers in the same tone commercials use the phrase “blue ribbon ice …
Character (Karakter, 1997) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A Dickensian social drama with Horror film flourishes, Character won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1997, and yet …
Cradle Will Rock (1999) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Tim Robbins is a talented actor and an interesting director, but on Cradle Will Rock he expends a lot of energy …
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Sydney Pollack’s film of Horace McCoy’s novel manages to be the ultimate in both retro-Depression gothic and late-‘60s fatalism. Comparisons …
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
Although it does not lack some pat, familiar refrains of both the popular theatre and filmmaking of its era, Delbert …
Go for Broke! (1951) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Robert Pirosh, who provided the pithy screenplay for William Wellman’s mighty Battleground (1949) and had an artful way of translating …
