Casualties of War: The Violence We Chose Not to See
Brian De Palma’s Casualties of War explores the moral collapse of soldiers in Vietnam through a harrowing true story of violence,…
Broken Arrow: The first steps of the pro-Indian Western
Delmer Daves’ Broken Arrow explores Indian-American relations with a humane lens, blending historical reinterpretation with 1950s political ideals. The Old Frontier…
Glory: Edward Zwick’s Forgotten Chapter of the Civil War
In 1989, Edward Zwick’s Glory revisited an often-forgotten notion of the American Civil War: the participation of thousands of black Americans…
The Shootist: John Wayne’s Swan Song.
A few years before his death, John Wayne revealed an unseen side of himself in The Shootist, his final film. The…
Cleopatra : The gigantic, lavish production of a $450 million epic
Few films can boast a production as complicated and opulent as Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra . Behind the scenes After more…
The Quick and the Dead: Sam Raimi’s Fun, Underrated Western.
The quality of The Quick and the Dead may lie in its style-over-substance aspect, in pushing the codes of a Western…
Dial M for Murder Review : The Sadistic Charm of the Perfect Crime.
With Dial M for Murder, Hitchcock questions our morality as a spectator, making us admire the sadistic charm of his killer…
The Wrong Man Review: Hitchcock and American Judicial Hell
The Wrong Man is one of Hitchcock’s most serious films, treating the filmmaker’s cherished theme of identity from a brutal judicial…
An American Werewolf in London: When John Landis pushed the limits of on-screen Special Effects
For its visceral violence and comedy, John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London clearly deserve a second chance. From the Crypt…
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