On June 28, TCM returns with the seventh installment from one of its newest series: Treasures from the Disney Vault, a focused look through Disney’s extensive and diverse back catalogue. As with the previous six installments, Disney aficionado Leonard Maltin … Continue reading Now Playing on TCM: Treasures from the Disney Vault
It’s unfair to dock a movie simply because of when it was released and what might have come before. But life is unfair, and the German comedy Therapy for a Vampire (Der Vampir auf der Couch) enters American theaters in the wake … Continue reading THERAPY FOR A VAMPIRE
Not every director starts a scene by yelling, “Action!” Clint Eastwood gently whispers, “When you’re ready,” while others don’t even bother calling it. Sam Fuller used to fire a starter’s pistol into the air. And if IMDB.com is to be … Continue reading THE NEON DEMON
French critic cum filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard famously said that all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun, but he could have done it with less. As an artist, Godard vacillated back and forth between incendiary … Continue reading BAND OF OUTSIDERS (BANDE À PART)
Preeminent film director Howard Hawks succinctly described a good movie: “Three great scenes, no bad ones.” Many have tried to elaborate on what defines a good movie through various criteria and rubrics, but all fall short of Hawks’ dictum. “Three … Continue reading FINDING DORY
My grandmother once told me that the greatest pain ever felt by a parent was burying her own child. Nothing could feel more unnatural. Losing a loved one is tragic; losing a child is devastation. That devastation has come to … Continue reading L’ATTESA
In 1973, the United States Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for individual states to outlaw, or restrict, a woman’s right to an abortion within their first trimester. The decision, Roe v. Wade, was a landmark one, a triumph … Continue reading TRAPPED
When it came to the paranormal, Ed and Lorraine Warren were the people to call. These two demonologists and agents of the Catholic Church found themselves attached to many supernatural cases—including The Amityville Haunting, an event that made several headlines … Continue reading THE CONJURING 2
It doesn’t take much to fill one with despair and the general sense that the world is indifferent to your plight, but nothing can drive a person to the brink like dealing with an insurance company. The paperwork, the type … Continue reading A MONSTER WITH A THOUSAND HEADS
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