Jennifer Aniston is known as a television star. This being due to her role as Rachel Greene on Friends. She, like most actresses had other acting jobs before becoming successful. Her very first film appearance came with her role as Tory in Leprechaun. She rarely puts it at the top of her movie roles. Although […]
There are so many movies about Christmas. They have to be categorized. There are the ones everyone watches, Its a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol and Miracle on 34th St. Others aren’t known as well. Come to the Stable and Miracle of the Bells, come to mind. There are others like Christmas in Paradise, that
There are countless movies depicting men in war. A Midnight Clear is such a film. It stars Ethan Hawke as Sgt. Will Knott. He commands a small patrol of soldiers. Their mission is to set up an abandoned house, to observe movements of the German army in late 1944. The patrol encounters a small band
One of the most popular movie genres of the 1930’s was the screwball comedy. There were such gems as It Happened One Night, My Man Godfrey and Bringing Up Baby. Nothing Sacred shouldn’t be compared with these. It is a disappointment, from one of the groundbreaking director’s William Wellman. He directed the gangster film Public
Many stars have their movie that makes them a star. John Wayne had Stagecoach, Clark Gable had It Happened One Night and Harrison Ford had Raiders of the Lost Ark. Rudolph Valentino had his with The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This film made him America’s first movie star. His star shone brightly and briefly.
Studio executives make major decisions all the time. Some are good, some not so good. A good decision was made by an executive, to pair Bing Crosby with Bob Hope. They were noticed when they were performing onstage together. Crosby appeared in movies and was a radio and recording star. Hope was beginning to start
Scores of movies have been made about World War II. Hell to Eternity stands apart from many. It is about war and its effect on men. The stand alone aspect is its central character, Guy Gabaldon, played by Jeffrey Hunter. He was an Hispanic male raised by a Japanese family, after his mother dies. He
It can be a difficult thing to continue making movies, with the same character. That is the challenge of making Dracula Has Risen From the Grave. The prince of darkness, was given screen immortality, with Bela Lugosi’s portrayal in 1931. The actor was typecast, and died in near obscurity in 1956. The role of the
What do Yankee Doodle Dandy and White Christmas have in Common? They are both movies that are viewed on their respective holidays, of Independence Day and Christmas. They also contain songs from two of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. They were George M. Cohan and Irving Berlin. The chief difference in the two
Alien is the movie Alfred Hitchcock could have directed. That would be if he worked for Hammer Studios. It has suspense and horror. The trait of horror was in the films by the master of suspense. Movies like Psycho and The Birds, are first and foremost horror films. Alien goes to the sub genre of