Cecil B. DeMille is often credited with shooting the first feature-length film (The Squaw Man) in Hollywood in 1914. Thanks to DeMille, D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, John Ford and other names now familiar only to cinephiles, movies (and scandals!) became a fixture in American life by the 1920s, and low-rent nickelodeons gave way to movie …
I think it is safe to say that for 99.999999…% of men, their sex lives do not come anywhere close to their sexual fantasies. In all of human history, one of the few exceptions might be the late Roger Vadim. Vadim was a French filmmaker whose career peaked during the jet set/beautiful people/swinging 60s era. …
I don’t go to the cinema much. I concluded decades ago that Hollywood would only change if they were starved of funds. That was before they went really woke of course. At the time I just wanted them to put out better content. Since then the movies produced by Hollywood have become significantly worse. The …
This isn’t a movie review. It’s my take on Elvis’s man story as revealed in the new biopic which I watched this week. Although Elvis’ life played out on an epic scale, the story was quite the opposite, a difficult family entanglement that Elvis wasn’t able to free himself from. It sheds light on how, …
In 1975 I was working at a TV station when The Eiger Sanction was released. We aired a series of advertisements for this Clint Eastwood (as actor and director) movie that attracted a great deal of attention from the women in the office. I still remember one co-worker gushing like a teenager: “Oh, he’s so …
The Critical Drinker is an anti-woke Youtuber from Scotland and comes highly recommended.
