Defiant Success

There are a number of movies based on real-life crimes ( Zodiac , Monster ) and there's a handful of movies where a crime is a major inf...

What would it be like to start your life with a new identity? Your past is erased and your future is presented with a clean slate. That is...

Due to Hurricane Irene passing through the east coast (and the possibility that I'll lose power), I'm holding off blogging until the...

Being a woman, I'm not entirely crazy about today's "women's pictures". Most of them aren't well made. Another rea...

The Misfits  is noted for being the final movie of both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. It's also considered the last major movie in bot...

During the late 50's and early 60's, British cinema had a flux of realism dramas. Most of them haven't aged well, but those that...

Escaping your past is the method to use when you have more than a few skeletons in the closet. Usually it's related with an affair or so...

We've seen descents into madness depicted in movies countless times. But what about when the person's already insane? Ralph Fienne...

It's amazing to discover people with similar interests. They're usually the most unlikely of people. In  Cinema Paradiso , the res...

Thanks to Meredith at  Forever Classics , I now have something to get me out of this writer's funk. Reportedly, liebster means "b...