PHOTOS: East of Eden
Based on the book by John Steinbeck, Elia Kazan’s 1955 cinema classic EAST OF EDEN is set in Salinas Valley, California during World War...
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POSTERS: Kelly’s Heroes
FOR MEMORIAL DAY… Brian G. Hutton’s 1970 Men on A Mission/Caper Film is a real gem. The story follows a squad of ragtag WWII...
The Films of HOWARD HAWKS
When I was told about the Howard Hawks Blogathon by my friend Ratnakar of Seetimaar – Diary of a Movie Lover I was really...
In Memory of Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine is an actor that over the years I’ve come to appreciate more and more. His tenacious persona in the many films and...
Warner Archives: South of The Border Adventures
One of the subgenres of the Western is known as the Zapata Western and these stories took place specifically during the Mexican Revolution. Some...
A band of mercenaries take a deadly mission in THE WILD GEESE
Severin Films the label that brought us the explosive DVD/Blu Ray release of Enzo G. Castellari’s Macaroni Combat cult classic Inglorious Bastards has got...
Kathryn Bigelow goes back into the war zone with ZERO DARK THIRTY
Director Kathryn Bigelow has been making furious films for decades now. The first movie I ever saw by her was Blue Steel (1989) a...
Teens fight for freedom in RED DAWN
There are always movies that go on to become part of our collective pop culture memory because they hit on certain issues happening when...
The Films of Don Siegel: The Beguiled
During the Civil War, somewhere in the state of Louisiana, a Union soldier John McBirney (Clint Eastwood) is seriously injured in battle and on...
Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter
The industrial steel town of Clairton, PA and the community of Russian-Americans who reside there provide the primary backdrop for Michael Cimino’s existential war...
