By Alan Hurst It doesn’t happen often but it has happened often enough for it to be the stuff of dreams – hitting the big-time in films in a big way your first time at bat. The people below all had either terrific first years or a career defining film debut that assured considerable award…
By John H. Foote So often through the history of the cinema, and the connection to the Academy of Arts and Sciences, wildly over appreciated films are nominated for and often win the Best Picture award in addition to many other prizes. If you study closely the nominees and winners of each year right back…
By Nick Maylor We all know this is going to happen. The Michael Wolff book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump Whitehouse became an instant bestseller upon release. I read it in one night. Trump and his people have insisted that the entire book is fabricated, though the events described in it seem completely consistent…
By Alan Hurst Turner Classic Movies was recently showing Key Largo (1948) and I sat down and started watching. Again. It’s one of my favorite stage to screen adaptations of the era – a great cast, suspenseful direction by John Huston, steamy locale, a strong script based on Maxwell Anderson’s play and Johnny Rocco is one…