Defiant Success

The opening score of Jonny Greenwood's score as we first hear it in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread  implies a sense of unea...

The general mood of Cory Finley's Thoroughbreds  is one that doesn't feel quite right. Amanda (Olivia Cooke) and Lily (Anya Taylor...

Early in William Dieterle's Portrait of Jennie , starving artist Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) manages to sell a sketch to sympathetic ar...

Society as of late has been turning into a textbook example of social Darwinism. Obviously, the survival of the fittest is in play but it...

Stories of beginning a new life are by no means an uncommon occurrence in either fiction of real life. Many of these tales hail from those...

On August 14, 1980, Playboy  model and rising actress Dorothy Stratten was murdered by her estranged husband Paul Snider, who committed su...

Ralph Nelson's Requiem for a Heavyweight  opens with a tracking shot fo bar patrons watching a boxing match on an unseen TV with immen...

What are the extents of one's love? What limits does someone have towards their significant other? Every love is different mich in the s...

Peter Van Allen (George Brent) is in a tight spot at the start of Edmund Goulding's The Great Lie . His marriage to pianist Sandra Kov...

There's always something so tantalizing about the forbidden romance, the story of the star-crossed lovers. We root for them to see if in...