Articles

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE: Pushing The Yellow Bus 20 Years Later

Introduction It’s hard to overstate the enormous impact that Little Miss Sunshine had when the film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. It...

THE END OF OAK STREET Review: A Summer Movie From Another Time

Introduction From the moment the soundtrack starts in David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street, I felt a certain sense of nostalgia. This movie...

QUENTIN TARANTINO: What’s Next For One Of Hollywood’s Greatest Directors?

Introduction Almost 35 years into his career, Quentin Tarantino remains one of the most distinctive and influential filmmakers of the modern era. Emerging from the...

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST: 50 Years Of Madness

Introduction In the pantheon of American cinema, few films have left as indelible a mark as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Released in 1975,...

JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH Review – More Like Afterbirth

Introduction Does anyone get excited for the birth of their fourth child? Or seventh? Or is it more like that feeling you get when you...

Scholars’ Spotlight: Rudolph Valentino

Early Years Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, who would be known professionally as Rudolph Valentino, was born on May 6, 1895,...

The Rise And Fall Of The Hollywood Studio System – Part 1: The Golden Machine 1927–1939

Introduction The curtain rose on a new age of Hollywood cinema in 1927, when The Jazz Singer shattered the silence of motion pictures with Al...

F1: The Movie Review – Wonderboy

Introduction You’re probably going to see a bunch of reviews describing F1: The Movie as predictable and formulaic. Many will call it predictable, but that’s...