Conversations on 20th Century Cinema and (Slightly) Beyond
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Later this year, The General will celebrate its 100th anniversary. So Birmingham's Sidewalk Film Festival is hosting a birthday party for Buster's masterpiece at the Alabama Theatre.
The discourse around the new Resident Evil film raises a question worth considering: What’s the purpose of an adaptation anyway?
For many years, Hard Boiled was almost impossible to find in the U.S. Now it can be seen in all its big-screen glory in select cities—like Montgomery, Alabama.
Stunt casting can provide more than throwaway laughs. When employed effectively, as Gus Van Sant does here with William S. Burroughs, it can add new layers to the viewing experience.
Many people have written about Following as a skeleton key to the rest of Christopher Nolan's filmography. But it's also a useful blueprint for first-time feature filmmakers.
Robert De Niro's Southern accent in Cape Fear is almost distractingly bad. But perhaps that was the point. Or perhaps there was no point at all.
America's most patriotic fictional professor has been on my mind lately. So this holiday weekend feels like the perfect excuse to revisit this Dust On The VCR classic.
James Gunn wrote Velma as a queer character for the live-action Scooby-Doo movie. The studio tried to strip that identity away, but if you look closely, it's still there.
Years before Smokey and the Bandit, my father used to be known as the Coors Man, thanks to his Colorado connection. Life was much simpler for men like him back then.
Paris is Burning chronicles the drag subculture of New York's gay community, dealing with a wide range of sociopolitical topics. But it's also kind of a sports doc.
