In Name Only (John Cromwell, 1939) (first view) If anyone told me there was a 30s movie with Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, and Kay Francis, my first guess wouldn’t necessarily be a life-and-death melodrama, but here we are. Everyone is...
Near the end of Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk, Alice (Meryl Streep) comments on the fact that the trip she’s taken is not a “cruise” but a “crossing,” a one-way trip across the Atlantic from Brooklyn to Southampton. That’s...
When Joel Schumacher took over directing The Lost Boys, he made some big changes to the initial idea including making the vampires older, making them sexier, and, by extension, making our heteronormative, boring suburban family protagonists the “others.” Read Alcy Leyva’s “30 Years...
