Film on the Internet: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
Billy Wilder’s 1957 courtroom drama defines–and thrives in–a space somewhere between Some Like It Hot…
Year of the Month: ADVISE AND CONSENT
Advise and Consent is a notable example of subtext—Gay Panic—overpowering the text. Envisioned as a…
Year of the Monster: Tom “Vomas” Morton on Bela Lugosi’s 1932
1932 was an important year for Bela Lugosi. Having made his (silent) Hollywood debut in…
Year of the Month: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on Night of the Hunter
Robert Mitchum’s performance in The Night of the Hunter, as the reverend Harry Powell, flies…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: SPARTACUS (1960)
They don’t make them like Spartacus anymore, an overstuffed, overlong pileup of gorgeous, funny, tearjerking,…