Phil Hall Articles

Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand in Vincente Minnelli's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever At Film Threat, Phil Hall comes up with a follow-up to his 2008 article about important lost films. Among the 50 titles on Hall's highly eclectic new list are a version of Carmen (1915) starring Fox vamp Theda Bara; The Life of General Villa (1914), in which Mexican revolutionary Pancho [...]

Marilyn Monroe WHAT IF THEY LIVED? Movie Stars Who Died Too Young How did the idea for What If They Lived come about? The idea for the book was percolating for years. I was always curious about what could have happened if stars like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, John Belushi and Bruce Lee had not died not died so young – could their stellar power [...]

Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Written by Online Film Critics Society members Phil Hall and Rory Leighton Aronsky, What If They Lived? (BearManor Media, 2011) takes a look at the lives and oeuvre of celebrities whose film careers were prematurely curtailed by death. As befitting their book's title, Hall and Aronsky then wonder, "What if they lived?" Encompassing the early days of cinema all the [...]

The Online Film Critics Society, the international association for Internet-based film reviewers and journalists, has elected its new Governing Committee. Readers of film websites will recognize the names: Eric D. Snider was re-elected to a second consecutive term. The Portland, Ore.-based critic writes for Film.com, Cinematical, and EricDSnider.com. Phil Hall, who had previously served on the committee from 2002-2009. Hall is the New York-based contributing [...]