According to ElvisNews.com , John Carpenter’s 1979 Emmy-nominated biopic, Elvis , with Kurt Russell playing Elvis Presley, is scheduled for ...

Hollywood actress Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley), who won an Academy Award for her performance as saint-to-be Bernadette in The Song...

Recent releases such as WALL-E (2008), Terminator Salvation (2009), and 9 (2009) reveal that the imagination of disaster is a robust moti...

I’ve hardly done an exhaustive study, but I suspect that virtually every major popular singer or band has made a Christmas album, or at the ...

As a consequence of last night’s extremely rare screening on TCM of Donald Cammell and Nic Roeg’s Performance (1970) starring Mick Jagger, ...

I highly recommend you tune in, or set your recorder, to Turner Classic Movies (TCM) tonight as there is a rare screening of Donald Cammell ...

These are the days when no one should rely unduly on his “competence.” Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck lef...

In Luis Buñuel’s Diary of a Chambermaid , characters frequently entertain each other’s foot fetishes. Céléstine (Jeanne Moreau) indulges Mon...

I’ve written previously on this blog about one of the central myths informing rock culture (first established by The Velvet Underground and ...

In their well-known book, Metaphors We Live By , George Lakoff and Mark Johnson argue that metaphor is not simply a literary device but an i...

In contrast to December 7 1941—the date “which will live in infamy,” the day the Japanese navy attacked the United States naval base at Pear...

Although I wouldn’t consider myself a “hard core” fan (the designation suggests a degree of irrational obsession), out of curiosity I noneth...