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Film Review: Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces helped mark a sea change in the content, tone and direction of American movies in the transitional, counterculture years of the late 1960s and early 70s. more...
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...
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Casablanca Was Heavily Censored
By: Gil Mansergh
Casablanca, Michael Curtiz's celebrated (and heavily censored) WWII romantic drama starring Humphrey Bogart, and Ingrid Bergman is finally available in affordable Blu-ray more...
1938 Movie Version of A Christmas Carol
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Melissa Howard
The Hugo Butler adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens' classic novella, for the silver screen is a bomb. more...
Sherlock Holmes World War II Movies
By: John K. Davis
The first three movies in Universal Studios' popular Sherlock Holmes series of the 1940s had the detective battling Nazi agents rather than Victorian villains. more...
By:
Kathleen Airdrie
Susan Hayward was a remarkably talented actress who specialized in portrayals of strong women who fought to overcome adversity. more...
By: Grace Troje
Ophuls employs images of bars to illustrate how societal Institutions restrict women from expression and power; Madame de..., Letter, Caught and Reckless Moment analyzed. more...
Ophuls' Sensitivity to Social Class
By: Grace Troje
The disadvantaged do not have a voice in society. Films of Max Ophuls depicted the plight of the lower classes by employing mute characters to represent the disempowered. more...
Ophuls' Representation of Patriarchy
By: Grace Troje
In a brief dissection of four of Ophuls' films, his attitude toward patriarchy can be discovered; Madame de..., Letter From an Unknown Woman, Caught and Reckless Moment. more...
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