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September Affair a Radical Romance for 1950
September Affair poses an intriguing premise: what if you could start fresh, with a passionate new love, in a dazzling place and with no financial worries? more...
Angels With Dirty Faces Movie (1938)
A key Warner Bros. picture of the period, Angels features real-life best friends James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as lifelong pals who take different forks in life's road. more...
Once Upon a Time in America Movie (1984)
A powerful, unorthodox meditation on friendship, loyalty and betrayal, the film follows boyhood pals who bond over street crime and graduate to felonious adulthoods. more...
Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
The original Goodbye, Mr. Chips is the slow, sentimental, stiff-upper-lip British tale that has long been the template for movies about teachers who make a difference. more...
Freaks Among Greatest of All Cult Classics
Tragically deformed outcasts star in this absorbing pre-Code B-movie that does more to promote tolerance than any of Hollywood's preachy "message" pictures. more...
The Enchanted Cottage Movie (1945)
This charming, earnest tale relies not on special effects but purely on the skills of its stars for a modern take on the adage, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." more...
History is Made at Night (1937)
History is Made at Night is the kind of romantic melodrama Hollywood pretty much patented in the years between the advent of sound and America's entry into World War II. more...
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Claude Jutra's Mon Oncle Antoine
Mon Oncle Antoine is a tale not only of its main character, but of Quebec itself. While Benoit comes of age, so too does the province. more...
The Diary of Anne Frank Blu-ray Review
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Francine Brokaw
Fifty years after it was made, this film is as remarkable as it was when audiences first saw it. more...
Love Story, Starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw
By: Kelly Fetty
As the tumultuous, youth-driven Counterculture movement neared its height in 1970, American moviegoers flocked to see an old-fashioned romance called Love Story. Why? more...
By: Dale Uhlmann
Lon Chaney, Sr., is regarded as both a silent screen and horror film icon. But he was also a performer whose roles asked us to rethink our attitudes toward the disabled. more...
Forgotten Anti-War Movies of the 1930s
By: John K. Davis
Overshadowed by the 1930 classics "All Quiet on the Western Front" and France's "The Grand Illusion," these three still are among the best anti-war movies of that decade. more...
Homosexuality in Cinema: Dirk Bogarde in Victim
By: Hana Lewis
By reflecting the current sexual politics and dominant ideology, Basil Dearden's Victim attempted to change the way homosexuality was culturally represented on screen. more...
Classic Film Review: A Matter of Life and Death
By: Will Roszczyk
Blurring the lines between reality and the afterlife, A Matter of Life and Death is a fantastic British film featuring some strong and enthralling performances. more...
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