Defiant Success

Well, this year was utter shit, wasn't it? Loads of celebrities dropping like flies, politics becoming an absolute joke...if it wasn...

How does one describe Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ? It's more than a simple musical, much more than that. (It is  De...

Life seems good for Ann Walton (Mala Powers) initially in Ida Lupino's Outrage . Recently engaged, she's happy with how things are...

It's made clear early on in Martin Ritt's The Great White Hope  that Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones, who's basically Jack Jo...

Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason  isn't the conventional type of documentary. Its subject Jason Holliday (née Aaron Payne) isn...

The opening scene of Archie Mayo's It's Love I'm After  has Basil Underwood (Leslie Howard) and Joyce Arden (Bette Davis) perf...

There are many comedians of the silent film era but when discussing who among them is the best, it always boils down to two names: Charlie...

It's a shame that Jean Harlow left this world at such a young age. Who knows what her career would've been like had she not died a...

The usual formula for Hollywood fare back in the 1950s often followed these elements: get a couple of big names in top billing, have a nic...

Love and marriage, love and marriage...go together like a horse and carriage...  Or at least that's how the song goes. If fiction has ...