Film: The Lady from Shanghai
Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai (1948) gets off to a rocky start and never
Film: Mank
Hollywood can’t resist making films about itself, but rarely are they executed with such moxie
Film: The Stranger
Considering Orson Welles’ pedigree, I was hoping for more from The Stranger (1946), a creepy
Film: The Other Side of the Wind
Wow, what a a fascinating glance backwards at cinematic history. The Other Side of the
Spy 100, #1: The Third Man
The Carol Reed-Graham Greene collaboration that worked so well in Our Man in Havana works
Spy 100, #63: The Kremlin Letter
John Huston’s The Kremlin Letter (1970) is a sordid, convoluted tangle, and possibly one of
Film: Catch-22
I watched Catch-22 (1970) about twenty years ago, and remembered it as a sluggish, disappointing