During Hollywood’s golden age, studios were known for certain movies. MGM was known for musicals, Warner Bros. was known for their hard hitting dramas. There was one studio that became known for horror films. That studio was Universal. It gave the movie going public, Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, The Invisible Man and The Mummy in the […]

Hollywood has made many films that feature dystopian societies. Civil War is the latest example. This is meant for those people who despise super hero movies, musicals and any other film that lets a person escape reality for a couple of hours. It stars Kirsten Duntz. She became famous in a super hero movie, Spider-Man.

Martial arts movies were made famous by Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Many were entertaining for their actors fight moves. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings goes beyond that. It has well choreographed fight scenes, particularly one involving a runaway bus. Andy Cheng did this one and all of the fight scenes. He

A film like Columbiana is different from many that are similar. The main difference is what makes Cataleya,(Zoe Saldana), a killer. This is shown in the opening sequence. A young Cataleya,(Amandla Stenberg), witnesses the death of her parents. They are murdered by a drug lord, Don Luis, (Beto Benites). Her father, before dying, has given

An actor takes a role for a few reasons. His agent says its good for his career. The actor may be under contract forcing him to accept the role. The actor may be doing a favor for a friend. it is best to think that Matthew McConaughey chose the third option. A person would like

Norma Desmond has a quote in Sunset Blvd. She says, “We didn’t need dialogue, we had faces.” This line sums up silent films. It also sums up Lon Chaney’s career. He could with any expression, sum up his character’s feelings. There is no better example of this than his greatest role, in The Phantom of

Kirk Douglas’ character, Chuck Tatum, lights a match against his typewriter. This gives the audience a foreshadowing of the story. The tale, at its best, shows how journalism works. It is at its worst,how this profession goes for a story that sells papers. Newspapers when this film was released, were the main news source. Most

Hollywood loves to do remakes. Some are better than the original. This is not the case with In the Good Old Summertime. It is a remake of the MGM film, The Shop Around the Corner. It is a big musical production with their big musical star,Judy Garland. She excels in the movie. She does what

There are many people who laugh, when John Wayne is called an actor. Those people have never seen The Shootist. Wayne, in the last film he made, gives one of the finest performances of his career. He plays John Books, a gunfighter. John Wayne over his career, played in many westerns. The majority tell the

Humphrey Bogart was still a star when he made this film. He was famous for playing gangsters, much like his contemporary,James Cagney. Like Cagney, he decided to do a comedy.This movie is the result. His style, doesn’t translate as well to the screen. It is like taking his character of Roy Earle into a comedy.