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Before the 1950s, filmmakers didn’t think about teenagers as anything other than adults-in-waiting—accessories to the adult characters in films. That changed circa the release of Nicholas Ray’s 1955 James Dean…
Preview Clip: Porgy & Bess (1959, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Baily) Having received mixed reviews, director Otto Preminger’s adaptation of Porgy & Bess disappeared fairly quickly…
Jerry Lewis – The Day the Clown Cried For fans of cinematic esoterica, Jerry Lewis’s The Day the Clown Cried is the unreleased movie holy grail. According to Harry Shearer—one…
It’s clear that the filmmakers behind Battle were in on the joke, at least to a point. One of the movie’s centerpiece models is, after all, “Nell,” an organic spaceship…
Screenshot: Drive/FilmDistrict Since 2001, the Fast & Furious films have been the go-to for racing action spectaculars. They’re wildly popular, and justifiably so, though not to everyone’s taste. Maybe you’re…