A Star Is Born (2018) is a capable piece of film-making and some of it is entertaining but a lot of it is pretty dull, drippy and dreary, surprisingly with Lady Gaga (aka Stefani Germanotta) marginally […]
Emil Jannings and William Powell star in the 1928 Oscar-winning silent classic The Last Command as two men who used to be political as well as personal adversaries in revolutionary Russia, who are forced by international politics […]
Director Jack Conway’s 1926 MGM silent drama Brown of Harvard stars William Haines, Jack Pickford and Mary Brian and is based on the hit 1906 Broadway play by Rida Johnson Young, who also co-wrote the popular music for the play with Melvin Ellis. Haines does well […]
Director Edward Sedgwick’s humorous black and white silent romantic drama movie West Point (1927) stars William Haines as wealthy, talented but arrogant sportsman Brice Wayne, who enters West Point and succeeds at football but alienates the other […]
Director Edward Sedgwick’s amusing 1927 silent comedy Spring Fever, based on Vincent Lawrence’s 1925 play, stars William Haines and Joan Crawford in their second film together and in their first romantic teaming on screen. Haines plays a shipping clerk named […]
Casting good actors in a Marvel movie might seem like a good idea, but no acting is required in Venom (2018), just the ability to be there, run around, look tragic and, above all, look right. In […]
Director Luis Buñuel’s 1952 Mexican movie El (aka This Strange Passion, or Torments) stars Arturo de Córdova as the middle-aged, wealthy, suave and uptight Francisco Galván de Montemayor, who is consumed with paranoid, raging jealousy after […]
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