Posted by Mike Finnegan on Apr 22nd 2019
The teaming of two powerful screen presences, Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner, in a World War II-era thriller might at first glance promise a cataclysmic action epic, but the cryptically-titled Morituri
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Aug 6th 2018
Born 112 years ago yesterday, writer/director/raconteur John Huston (1906-1987) always tried to soak up the atmosphere of the screen stories he told on location shoots near and far, familiar and exoti
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Jul 26th 2017
Real lives are often shabby, dimly lit and lonely, but they can still have dreams and still be the stuff of rich storytelling. Director John Huston and producer Ray Stark recognized and realized th
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Feb 6th 2017
Two Twentieth Century Fox movies that boldly stretched the boundaries of their respective genres arrived in theaters this day. Forty-three years ago, the filmmaker who on the strength of his potent
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Sep 23rd 2015
What do people see in the thriller Black Widow (1987), in which a sirenlike serial killer weds and sheds rich husbands and the FBI operative who sees through her mask is also female? “Which part do
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