It’s a gloomy day in the Connecticut countryside and I’ve been stuck in a low-grade depression for most of it. (It may not help that for some reason I’ve spent much of the day watching YouTube videos of fatal airplane crashes). How to get oneself out of these funks? I
Actor Keith Baxter never achieved the level of respect and stardom that other British actors of his generation–Albert Finney, Robert Shaw, Richard Burton–did. But his superb turn as Prince Hal in Orson Welles ‘Chimes At Midnight’ will forever assure him a place in movie history. Here he is, sitting in
This weekend we watched Fritz Lang’s classic crime drama ‘M’, starring Peter Lorre as a child molester/murderer. The film is still shocking. Cinematically it’s filled with technical achievements years ahead of the times. Dramatically it’s perverse, scary and ultimately moving in a quite horrific way. Click here to read more
As many of you cinema-geek sorts probably know, the original ending of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove’ was a pie fight that broke out in the war room. There are different reasons given for why it was cut–the above five minute doc claims the studio was nervous because Kennedy had just
Russ Columbo was an enormously popular crooner of the early 1930s, rivaling Bing Crosby in his rise to stardom. Unfortunately he went to a friend’s house one afternoon in 1934, cleaned his friend’s gun and was the unfortunate recipient of a bullet that discharged by accident, thus ending his career