What makes a movie star a movie star? (QOTW)
What are the most appealing qualities of the biggest and best movie stars? And who is your ultimate movie star?
John Wayne
Battle: Los Angeles (review)
Battle: Los Angeles may be about invasion, but it’s not about aliens: it’s about us. This isn’t science fiction: It’s a bleak fantasy about karma being a bitch. It’s about collective cultural guilt. Looked at from that angle, it’s fascinating.
Stagecoach (review)
It’s an enormous pleasure to see a film such as John Ford’s 1939 masterpiece via the Criterion Collection’s two-disc set, new in Region 1…
retro trailer: ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told’
Take a look back at an old trailer… Happy Zombie Jesus Day! For your enjoyment, enjoy Charlton Heston as Caveman John the Baptist, Telly Savalas as Pontius Pilate, John Wayne as a Roman centurion, and Max von Sydow as Ralph Fiennes as Jesus. It’s got the Good Housekeeping seal of approval! (Seriously? Good Housekeeping used … more…
