The most perplexing moviegoing experience of my life happened at a “Cabaret” screening five years ago. Also, the most irritating:…
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At the 1959 Academy Awards, Vincente Minnelli’s “Gigi” was nominated for nine Oscars, and the film won all of them.…
If you visit Bran Castle in Transylvania, the 13th-Century fortress commonly linked with Dracula, the main approach takes you through…
The 1933 classic film “King Kong” is the first and best of the monster movies. A Pre-Code production, “King Kong”…
“The Night of the Hunter” is 7/8 of a masterpiece. Director Charles Laughton and Screenwriter James Agee, Composer Walter Schumann,…
Horror as a genre has been dazzling. On many occasions viewers get enraptured with horror films due to their sensations…
Another classic monster movie from Universal Studios, “The Wolf Man” set the standard for all werewolf movies in the future.…
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” was adapted three times for screen…
I beg the Criterion Collection on bended knee to please, please restore “The Scarlet Pimpernel” to its original lustrous visual…
Producer Val Lewton and his director Jacques Tourneur flew beneath the artistically constricting tentacles of the Hollywood studio machine to…