These are the movies that shows Nicolas Cage greatness Nic Cage is one of the most famous actors of all time. His impressive way of immersing himself into each character he plays certainly has a lot to do with that, but it’s not the only reason. The character of Nic
Top Ten Movies Coming out in 2024 One of the best things about a new year approaching is resetting the clock to start fresh and get a jump on things. Gym memberships skyrocket while tobacco sales diminish. People around the country begin new hobbies and work towards their goals with
ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE HOLLYWOOD CLASSIC OF THE 1920s By Anthony Martinez RosalesThe Stanford Daily – “20/20 Vision” – May 2023 “Wings” (1927) felt like just another war movie until I found out that it used real planes to film the aerial shots. The fact that filmmakers bore the
WHO KNEW? by Victoria Thomas (@Miss_Vickums) In his 1990 biography, “How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime” Corman wrote: “My film budgets have always been notoriously lean, while the waste and excess built into the major studios’ productions have tended to appall me.” Corman’s
The Illusion and Reality of War – A Classic Anti-War Movie ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: Still Disquieting, 93 Years Later by Victoria Thomas (@Miss_Vickums) In 1914, English author and social commentator H.G. Wells coined the phrase “the war to end all wars,” referencing the first World War without
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Written by Victoria Thomas (@Miss_Vickums) America was increasingly strange place in 1955. The afterglow of the Allied victory quickly faded as new international anxieties surfaced. Although Russia had been a powerful cooperative force in crushing the Axis, dealings between the superpowers quickly cooled, leading author George Orwell
All Quiet on the Western Front – 1930 Classic Movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” is a powerful anti-war film that was released in 1930. The movie was based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. This epic pre-Code war film directed by Lewis
ANGEL AND THE BADMAN – JOHN WAYNE & GAIL RUSSELL “Angel and the Bad Man” is a 1947 Western film starring John Wayne and Gail Russell. The movie was directed by James Edward Grant and was released by Republic Pictures. The film is a classic Western that tells the story
Midnight (original title) and re-released with title “Call it Murder” Overview of movie with Plot and Cast (from Wikipedia) OVERVIEW Midnight is a 1934 American drama film, the first directed by Chester Erskine, and starring Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, Henry Hull and Margaret Wycherly. It was based on a Theatre
The story is centered around two orphaned sisters who are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.
This is the last Griffith film to feature both Lillian and Dorothy Gish, it was a commercial failure, following box-office hits such as The Birth of a Nation and Broken Blossoms. Like his earlier films, Griffith used historical events to comment on contemporary events, in this case the French Revolution to warn about the rise of Bolshevism.
The film is based on the 1874 French play Les Deux Orphelines by Adolphe d’Ennery and Eugène Cormon.