Defiant Success

With so many names who grew up on B-movies end up making movies themselves, it's little surprise that such titles would inspire their ow...

Fact is often stranger than fiction. It's why people are so drawn to true crime, and why Hollywood practically drools over the potential...

Tobe Hooper has always been something of an anomaly within Hollywood. After hitting it big with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , he never seeme...

As one goes through life, very rarely is it in their favor. Close connections crumble, hopes and dreams don't come to fruition, and happ...

The opening credits of Tony Richardson's Blue Sky  depict an assortment of magazines, all advertising glamor and sophistication. Photos ...

Ronald Neame's Hopscotch  opens with CIA field agent Miles Kendig (Walter Matthau) photographing a microfilm transfer being foiled. Upon...

Brian Gibson's What's Love Got to Do with It  opens with a young Anna Mae Bullock getting kicked out of choir practice for jazzing u...

Basil Dearden's The Assassination Bureau  opens with a montage of public muders. Sonia Winter (Diana Rigg) quickly figures out they'...

Daisy von Scherler Mayer's  Party Girl  opens with Mary (Parker Posey) being arrested for organizing an underground rave. To pay back th...

You know how some movies just scream the decade they were made in? Sometimes it's benign (fashion, how much things cost), other times no...