For a brief period in the early ’70s, actor Ossie Davis pursued a sideline career as a feature-film director, genera...

Another failed attempt at extending their success to the big screen, musical fantasy Marco was produced by Jules Bass ...

          American culture changed so profoundly—and so quickly—in the late ’60s and early ’70s that it’s often fascina...

When listing actors who are synonymous with macho adventure, we cite such formidable fellows as Kirk Douglas, Gary Coop...

          Never willing to let a viable franchise go fallow, UK’s Hammer Films generated three successors to its ridiculous hi...

Continuing from yesterday’s post . . . As should be evident by now, 1981 was a formative year for me as a young movie fan. I...

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There’s no question that the ’80s—meaning the concept, rather than simply the chronological period—were well underway at Ameri...

          Polished and sophisticated but also a bit on the trifling side, the World War II drama The Last Metro was the final...

          With some failed films, it’s easy to identify the main problem—bad timing, a miscast actor, a weak script—but with o...