Tag: Drama

WORLD WAR I To say World War I started only because Serbians assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand is an over simplification of a much bigger issue. It's a high school textbook re…

CUTIES It’s not often I feel the need to defend a movie. Defending a movie isn’t my job, it’s the job of the studios, the director, the writers, the actors, and other people invol…

On the Waterfront is arguably one of the greatest movies ever committed to film. It won eight of the twelve Oscars it was nominated for at the 1955 Academy Awards. The movie and it…

(Spoilers Ahead) I’m not necessarily opposed to remakes. I’m not necessarily in favor of remakes. I question why studios remake movies and especially why Hollywood remakes classic …

I had never heard of The Exiles before we started our journey through the National Film Registry. However, I had heard of Sherman Alexie whose name is featured prominently on the D…

Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend starts with one of the most famous opening shots in cinema history. The scene opens with a view of the New York City skyline. The camera tracks alon…

Days of Wine and Roses Days of Wine and Roses (1962), directed by Blake Edwards, wasn’t the first movie to tackle the subject of alcoholism.Lionel Rogosin’s On the Bowery (1956) d…

Terrance Malick all but disappeared from the cinematic landscape after the release of 1978’s Days of Heaven. Twenty years later Malick returned with one of the greatest anti-war mo…

TWIN PEAKS: THE SERIES "Going fishing" is the first line of the first episode of Twink Peaks. It's not as iconic as other lines that would spring up over the course of two seasons…

(Spoiler: noun-A person or thing that spoils something)  It’s a shame The Professor and the Madman was plagued with troubles during and after production. Mel Gibson even tried to b…