Well, Stevie has some of the great film franchises and some tremendously great film franchises — but what the heck am I talking about when I say “trilogy”? The “Running Man” trilogy is the UNOFFICIAL ...

Editor's Note: Spielberg trilogy? What Spielberg trilogy? In his latest column, Freeline Media critic Mike Fried discloses the nuts and bolts of Stephen Spielberg's unofficial… ...

No doubt about it, it’s increasingly a part of the American dream, something more and more people aspire to: getting off the grid. Think about it: no high electric bills to worry about. No budgeting ...

Editor’s Note: Joseph Aisenberg, the noted author of Brian de Palma’s Carrie: Studies In the Horror Film, has some thoughts of cinema and why we love movies, as seen through the film criticism of ...

The first ever summer blockbuster movie, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975), had its basis in the Peter Benchley bestselling novel of the same name, published a year earlier. It was almost as much a ...

Ishirō Honda, to me, is one of the greatest unsung heroes of cinema. He was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 46 feature films in a career spanning five decades and was the most successful Japanese ...

This ten-part personal essay on iconic director Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie was part of Maddy’s Third Master of Suspense Blogathon. Click here for the site in general, which is called Classic Film and ...

The (based on a) true story of Tony Kiritsis’s 1977 hostage situation in Indianapolis starts when he has a meeting with a mortgage broker, M.L. Hall but is met instead by his son, Richard, because ...

David Koepp has been such a compelling screenwriter (especially of late) so when one of his title cards say “PAY ATTENTION: THIS SHIT IS REAL,” you’d better pay attention. When Skylab crashed to the ...

Ealing Studios was one of Britain’s premiere movie studios having been founded in the early 1900s. There were some golden nuggets, but the studio really engendered its cachet in the post war years ...

It’s such a glorious decade. Between cheesy entertainment of the highest order to bonafide classics, the 1950s was the last real decade of “‘”Old Hollywood,” but also a decade when upstarts like ...

This ten-part personal essay on iconic director Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is part of Maddy’s Second Master of Suspense Blogathon. Click here to view the blog entry and here for the site in general, ...