Making it creepy is the short appearance — despite above the line credit — of Boris Karloff as a dress designer whose ...

A Dr. Hobby of Cybertronics has the revolutionary idea to create a robot child that is capable of Love. He creates such a test robot named David and enlists an employee of the company and his wife, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sontag’s Song Of Herself: Thoughts on Cinema is an essay by author Joseph Aisenberg on movies, as seen through the work of Susan Sontag.

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 ...

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, ...