Virginia Mayo: The honey-blonde – at times red-haired – heroine of Technicolor fare like Wonder Man, The Flame and the Arrow, and Painting the Clouds with Sunshine, Virginia Mayo was…
Trouble Is My Business with Brittney Powell. Co-written by actor/voice actor Tom Konkle, who also directed, and Xena: Warrior Princess actress Brittney Powell, Trouble Is My Business is a humorous…
Crime novel The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. While her husband is away during World War II, housewife Lucia Holley – the sort of “Everywoman” who looks great in…
Edgar G. Ulmer movies on TCM: ‘The Black Cat’ & ‘Detour’ Turner Classic Movies’ June 2017 Star of the Month is Audrey Hepburn, but Edgar G. Ulmer is its film…
Dana Andrews movies: Complex film noir actor excelled in both major and minor crime dramas. Dana Andrews movies: First-rate film noir actor excelled in both classics & minor fare One…
Rebecca 1940: Joan Fontaine as the “successor” and Judith Anderson as the creepy lesbian housekeeper, madly in love with her deceased mistress. ‘Rebecca’ 1940: Alfred Hitchcock Best Picture Oscar winner…
Money Monster with George Clooney and Jack O’Connell: TV celebrity and unwise investor/hostage-taker in Jodie Foster-directed socially conscious drama that is severely handicapped by a mix of pretentiousness and cowardice.…
Black Swan movie with Natalie Portman: Mentally unstable ballerina totally loses it. ‘Black Swan’ movie review: Natalie Portman rises to challenge in ‘most mature’ Darren Aronofsky effort Darren Aronofsky has…
Joan Crawford in ‘Mildred Pierce’: Best Actress Oscar winner enjoyed a triumphant comeback. ‘Mildred Pierce’ 1945 movie review: Very entertaining ‘soap opera’ Time has a way of making some films…
Coleen Gray: Actress and film noir good girl went from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Killing’ to ‘The Leech Woman.’ Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men…
And Then There Were None movie with Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, June Duprez, Louis Hayward and Roland Young. And Then There Were None movie remake to be directed by Oscar…
Spy movie with Melissa McCarthy. ‘Spy’ movie review: ‘Transgressive’ feminist statement There’s been a lot of talk around the ol’ virtual water cooler about the feminist messaging embedded in Mad…
Alfred Hitchcock heroine Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt, facing serial killer Joseph Cotten. Teresa Wright in ‘Shadow of a Doubt’: Alfred Hitchcock heroine in the director’s favorite film…
Lizabeth Scott: Film noir actress Lizabeth Scott dead at 92: Film noir star of the ‘1940s and 1950s & Elvis Presley leading lady Lizabeth Scott, a Paramount star in the…
Idol’s Eye would-be co-star Robert Pattinson. Idol’s Eye production shut down: Robert De Niro, Robert Pattinson and Rachel Weisz to have starred in Olivier Assayas’ action-thriller Production on screenwriter-director Olivier…