Defiant Success

The opening moments of Vincente Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town  shows Jack Andrus (Kirk Douglas) walking around the grounds of t...

Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) hasn't had the best day at the start of George Cukor's It Should Happen to You . She just lost her m...

What is there after it's all over? It's been speculated for centuries what happened when someone dies, if there's anything in ...

A few lines into Jeff Baena's The Little Hours , and its general mood is quickly established. What initially is perceived as something...

World War II is often a go-to source for media both fictional and factual. Sometimes those involved in these projects were also participan...

Earlier this year, I read a graphic novel called The Fifth Beatle , which -- as its subtitle so clearly painted -- was about the band’s man...

Family is often a subject matter explored in fiction. Whether it's the estrangement of its members or the reunion of them, it's some...

There's a part in Art Napoleon's Too Much, Too Soon  where John Barrymore (Errol Flynn) proclaims to his daughter Diana (Dorothy M...

"Something wicked this way comes," proclaims one of the witches in William Shakespeare's Macbeth . And many times in the centu...

Childhood is something that comes and goes too quickly for one to appreciate. It's a time where one doesn't have to worry about ev...