Much like how Alfred Hitchcock’s films have not lost their effectiveness through the decades, John Russell Taylor’s “Hitch” (1978, with a 1980 postscript after the
Have Kleenex ready, cuz I mean, damn. In “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” (2024), the “S” doesn’t stand for Superman, nor is it an alien
“Waltzes from Vienna” (1934) isn’t quite a musical – after all, it focuses entirely on the creation of a single song, Johann Strauss II’s “The
Depth might be returning to Hollywood’s offerings this fall. The season is short on mega-hyped movies, but a closer look reveals many projects whose taglines
Despite being an amazing film, “Prozac Nation” (2001) just couldn’t fit in with normal movies. It had a film festival premiere in 2001 but the
“Oppenheimer” is the most important piece of cinematic homework of 2023, something that would be invaluable to civics classes learning about the back rooms of
Janet Morgan’s “Agatha Christie: A Biography” (1984) is the estate-approved life story of the author, and still stands as the most definitive. I’d recommend reading
In “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography” (1977), Christie famously doesn’t go deep into analyzing her novels or the stories behind them. That might’ve been frustrating in
Woody Allen’s autobiography, “Apropos of Nothing” (2020), strikes a balance of self-deprecating wit and insightful reminiscences about his life and career. Although he possibly typed
Hercule Poirot often travels, even though it seems he would be annoyed by a lot of things about the process of traveling, not to mention