MovingPictureHistoryBlog

Anyone who charts the development of thrillers throughout the history of American movies must reserve a place of honor for John Frankenheime...

Alfred Hitchcock’s celebrated contempt for “the plausibles” – his derogatory term for literal-minded spoilsports who carp about coinciden...

You've probably never seen another movie quite like The Kid Stays in the Picture , but, trust me, novelty value isn't the only thi...

For past two decades or so, it has been a favorite sport of good, bad and indifferent filmmakers to define that precise moment in 20th-c...

Most audiences were puzzled and disappointed by Vertigo when it first appeared in 1958. Ticketbuyers of the time likely wanted a rollerc...

If you accept the conventional wisdom regarding the late Stanley Kubrick, your worst suspicions will be confirmed by his crowning achieveme...

A textbook example of a hand-tooled star vehicle that forever labels the star in its driver’s seat, Smokey and the Bandit also is notewort...