MOVIES THE OSCARS OVERLOOKED
I hate the term “snub.” The idea that Oscar voters gather in a big tent and decide to ostracize…
BOMBSHELL:THE HEDY LAMARR STORY
It’s no longer news that 1940s Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr invented the technology we use in cellular phones and…
FROM LON CHANEY TO…
An uncommon number of rare and significant silent films have made their way to DVD and Blu-ray in recent…
78/52: EXPLORING HITCHCOCK’S SHOWER…
How many movie sequences have taken on the mythic power of the shower scene in Psycho? Few, if any, I…
FACES PLACES: IMPOSSIBLE TO…
I’ve exhausted my thesaurus trying to find new words to describe Faces Places: “charming” and “disarming” seem too obvious and…
BANG! THE BERT BERNS…
I’m a sucker for stories about the music business in the 1960s, when it was centered around 1650 Broadway…
MOVIE POSTERS IN THE…
When I heard that a new documentary on the subject of movie posters was called 24×36: A Movie About…
