Film on the Internet: DARK PASSAGE
Delmer Daves’s 1947 noir Dark Passage is like a complex lucid dream. It’s both stylish…
Year of the Month: Doug Wykstra on THE BIG SLEEP and LADY IN THE LAKE
“People don’t talk to me like that!” In both 1946 Raymond Chandler adaptations, a woman…
Year of the Month: THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
One of the defining emotions of John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon is contempt. It’s an…
The Petrified Forest (Year Of The Month)
“I know there’s something in you. I wish I could figure out what it is.”…
Guest Article: 18 Songs about Actors by David “Rosy Fingers” McFarlane
I love when songwriters reference pop culture. For some reason, songwriters tend to be more…
“It’s All In The Family”: Tom “Vomas” Morton on Sabrina
Sabrina opens like a fairy tale. A mansion, a wealthy family, two conflicted brothers, and…
Sixty Years Later, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’s Anti-Capitalist Values Haven’t Aged a Day by Joey Lee (Year of the Month)
Is it just me or did The Treasure of the Sierra Madre age shockingly well?…
Year of the Month: Dylan “Balthazar Bee” Groves on To Have and Have Not
There’s a word that often comes up in discussions about the films of Howard Hawks,…
Reading Against the Grain – Part 3: THE BIG SLEEP
The film version of Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) holds a special place for many viewers:…
Bad Love – Part IV: IN A LONELY PLACE
It’s hardly surprising that films about bad love tend to expose the Hollywood machinery that churns…