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Anita Louise
A movie star and a fashion icon in her own right. Coming from Broadway as a child, Louise worked her way up in film to gain supporting roles in movies like A Midsummer Night's Dream and Marie...
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Hear Me Out…The Nanny Is The Best Sitcom Ever Made
From I Love Lucy to The Nanny, the American sitcom has become such an iconic piece of the TV culture in the nation. But of all the great sitcoms in all America, which is the best? In this short series,...
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Promotional print of Debbie Reynolds (1952)
Star light, star bright, starlets I see tonight…
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ScarJo Suing Disney Is The Kind of Superhero Story We All Need
You’d be hard-pressed to meet someone who doesn’t know of Scarlett Johansson. From her starring roles in blockbuster films to her elegant starlet image to her occasional controversy, in recent years,...
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WoOz: Why We Can’t Wake Up From The Technicolor Nightmare
I believe that the reason why the Wizard of Oz endures is nothing short of a miracle. The film isn’t one of Disney’s cute 90-minute vehicles or animated classics. It doesn’t showcase a princess nabbing...
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My Nominations To The NFR (Yes, Including The Bee Movie) Pt.1
When I think of the wonderful catalog of films that the National Film Registry via the Library of Congress has accrued over the past several decades, I am both pleased with the current list and...
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Shadows (1959) And The Search For Authenticity
1959’s Shadows feels so separate from its decade. Where 1950s culture and films glimmer in their glossy depictions of the perfect suburbs in the perfect age with perfect, shining white people...
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What A Way To Go! A Campy Love Letter to Hollywood from Hollywood
In my post-travel/post-vacation slump, I saw this movie that I had intended to see for the past few months. What A Way To Go! has been on my must-watch list for an embarrassingly long amount of time,...
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Tara to Grey Gardens: The Importance of Home in Film
From Great Expectations to Citizen Kane, famous film houses set the tone for an entire piece of cinema. Their decay, opulence, and secrets drive a story and its characters forward as almost no other...
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The Racist In The Room: Why We Need to Move Past DW Griffith
What is geniuses filmmaking? When we talk about the most innovative filmmakers of all time, our trained cinephile minds almost instinctively pivot to the big names of the last century. Orson Welles,...
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The Cartoon Jock: Gaston’s Scary Reality
Even though Gaston was not a part of the original Beauty and the Beast, his gruff, manly prescience and pompous attitude has made him one of the most iconic Disney villains to date. But when paired up...
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Thanks, I Hate It: Why Empire (1964) Doesn’t Deserve To Exist
As I type this week’s post, I am currently sitting through one of the most contemptible pieces of self-inflated grandeur from an artist who seems to have no regard for the human spirit, feeling, or...
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The Old And The New: Monroe, Crawford, And The Golden Dress
It was the 1953 Golden Globes and every star in the Hollywood sky glimmered in their fine silky duds. The night would be one for the ages, Audrey Hepburn shined after her stint in Roman Holiday, Joan...
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Animation Station: Why We Just Can’t Shake Cartoon Racism
As the glittering lights of Hollywood shined brighter than ever, those glowing figures on the screen quickly transitioned from their human forms to something unfamiliar. The moving picture show really...
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Why Classic Horror Movies Are So Comforting
We all know the familiar set up: the creepy campground packed with teenagers enjoying their final days of senior year or the last flickering lights of summer, then, out of the shadows of darkness,...
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The History of The Movie Witch and How They Became So Empowering
You’d think that a trope thousands of years old, with misogyny etched into its very design, a trope meant to diminish women and their power and capabilities, would be outdated in the 21st century, or...
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The Dialogue In Gilmore Girls Isn’t As Good As You Remember
It’s like Aaron Sorkin for nostalgic romantics. The quick, witty, whirlwind dialogue in the modern classic tv series, Gilmore Girls, has taken on a life of its own for die-hard fans of the show. In a...
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Is it Such A Beautiful Day? An Examination of Oklahoma!
The first thing that I think of whenever I revisit 1955’s Oklahoma! (apart from the surprisingly necessary, though lengthy dream ballet) is inexplicably and always the song “Poor Jud Is Dead.”...
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Summer, Surfing and Civil Rights: Why The Endless Summer Fits In
From the beaches of Hawaii to the shores of “Africa,” as Senegal and Ghana often seem to be misnomered, 1966’s The Endless Summer is the perfect introduction to 60s surfing culture for the novice (or...
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“The Court Jester” and the Criminally Underrated Danny Kaye
By Michael David Charles Hicks
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The Dialectic Dilemma
I’ve found that I like movies that were created from plays the best. It feels like the new, bright film medium is co-opting a millennia-old tradition and turning it into something that’s not better...
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A Slap In The Face: On Will Smith And What The Oscars Should Be
When Kevin Costner strutted out on the stage with his prototypical, strong-man nature, I knew that I should expect a joke, and, on the surface, the first words of his mini-monologue seemed to confirm...
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Suspicious Mind Who Can’t Help Falling in Love: Thoughts on Elvis
In a Hollywood that evolves increasingly towards commercialism, the quantitative begins to usurp the qualitative. A film’s worth is judged not by the innovative subversions of its director, but by the...
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