Hollywood loves a remake. Sometimes it’s a successful foreign film recast with English-speaking celebrities. Sometimes it’s a decent story that just didn’t work the first time around. Most of the time, it’s a hollow-minded cash-grab by a studio rejiggering its … Continue reading WEST SIDE STORY
Rosa Dolores Alverío was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico. The town was noteworthy because it had the hospital. Now, it’s noteworthy for being the birthplace of Rita Moreno—the stage name Alverío acquired from her stepfather and the studio heads at … Continue reading RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT
For more than a decade, cinema’s faithful have flocked to the promised land every spring for the TCM Classic Film Festival: One long weekend on Hollywood Boulevard in the movie palaces of yore under the flickering images of the familiar … Continue reading Let’s Movie: 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival
Michael J. Cinema 