Defiant Success

Well, thank God another garbage year is done with. (Is it weird that it went by both too fast and too slow?) Anyway, I had a few bright spot...

The opening moments of James V. Kern's Never Say Goodbye  shows Ellen (Eleanor Parker) and Phil Gayley (Errol Flynn) both separately b...

In 1958, James Stewart and Kim Novak teamed up for Vertigo , With his traditional ways and her allure, they made for an ideal pairing for ...

It's made clear early on in Don Hartman's Holiday Affair  that Connie Ennis (Janet Leigh) has a lot on her plate. A war widow with...

The minute radio personality Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) opens his mouth in William Keighley's The Man Who Came to Dinner , his...

Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game  opens with Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) going on a soliloquy about her sports career and how it end...

At first glance, one would assume that Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' Battle of the Sexes  was solely focused on the famed tennis ...

Early into Yorgos Lanthimos' The Killing of a Sacred Deer , its general ambience is established. Its sterile mood depicts a precise at...

It's established early on in Noel Black's Pretty Poison  that Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) is not entirely there. (Well, he is on...

In the opening moments of Lewis Milestone's The Strange Love of Martha Ivers , the titular character tries unsuccessfully again to esc...