Defiant Success

You ever been in a low mood and your first solution is to watch a movie? It has and always will be the best way to forget your problems. T...

A common theme in some independent movies is sadness. Usually it's because the main character(s) lost a loved one, ended a relationship ...

As for usual Hollywood standards, most female roles tend to cross into degrading territory. That's mostly for studio movies, mind you. A...

Although I've only seen M  and The Big Heat , I know enough that Fritz Lang had a certain style of directing. He had his movies burn slo...

It's really sad that after his near-fatal car crash, studios were more than hesitant to cast Montgomery Clift in their projects. It wasn...

With some directors, I usually associate them with the things and/or themes in their movies (ie, Fellini's religious imagery, Tarantino...

I usually like comedies from the classic era because the jokes were what the jokes in today's comedies are not: funny. Older comedies re...

As popular as film noir was back in the 1940's and 1950's, sometimes the more famous titles weren't as successful upon their rel...

During the 1950's, the melodrama was a popular genre among female audiences. The more popular ones were made by Douglas Sirk, but some w...

There have been many famous femme fatales  in movies. Some of the more notable ones include Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity , Rita Hayw...