By Craig Leask It began with an idea. Producer Charles Brackett had a strong desire to make a picture set around Niagara Falls – and not about honeymooning couples. It ended with box office success and the record for the longest filmed walk in the history of cinema. A record that still stands to this…
By Alan Hurst On a long commute home I often go to my “happy place” which usually involves movies and conjuring all sorts of lists – ten best of this, ten worst of that – you get the idea. Because we’re in a new decade, I’ve decided to pick one movie from each of the…
By John H. Foote Sequels achieved their greatest popularity through the seventies and eighties and beyond, though in fairness they have existed since the thirties and the Universal monster series. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) stands among the greatest sequels ever made, a wonderful film that preceded a series of increasingly bad films meant to…
By Alan Hurst Rock Hudson is one of those rare movie stars whose death and the revelations that came afterward diminished their legacy as a star and performer. It happened to Joan Crawford with the accusations of child abuse in her daughter Christina’s best selling “Mommie Dearest”. And it happened to Rock Hudson in 1985…
By Nick Maylor On this episode of the podcast, John and I swapped seats as he interviews me about the history of comic-book adaptations and superheroe film. Be sure to check out our official YouTube channel for all of our shows! Nick MaylorNick is an actor/writer/comedian/musician from Hamilton, ON Canada. Having been a film nut…
By John H. Foote (**) Margot Robbie was the finest thing in the awful Warner Brothers film Suicide Squad (2016) as the kooky, violent, positively insane Harley Quinn, moll to Joker. Robbie absolutely blew everyone off the screen in the film with her wisecracking nutbar out to conquer everyone in her way. Each scene she…
By John H. Foote Spartacus is dead. May he live long in eternity. Over a century of life came to an end yesterday when Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas passed away, gone from this mortal life, forever immortal on the big screen. One of the last of the great legends of the classical period of Hollywood,…
By John H. Foote Let me be clear, I am writing about gangster pictures, films that go inside the world of the mob, NOT cops and robbers or crime movies. Organized crime is the order of the day with what I am exploring with this article, big and small. Warner Brothers built their studio on…
By Alan Hurst Sally Field was one of the Kennedy Centre honorees last month, a deserved accolade for one of the best actresses of the last 50 years. I’m old enough to remember Sally Field from the initial runs of Gidget (1965-66), The Flying Nun (1967-70) and the short-lived The Girl with Something Extra (1973-74).…
By Nick Maylor On this episode of our official podcast, John and I discuss the life and work of the one and only Mr. Tom Hanks. Be sure to like and subscribe to our YouTube channel! Nick MaylorNick is an actor/writer/comedian/musician from Hamilton, ON Canada. Having been a film nut since the early days of…