GREAT OLD MOVIES

THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Hollywood in the Fifties . Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair. W. W. Norton; 2002. This is a very entertaining and ...

THE BRIEF, MADCAP LIFE OF KAY KENDALL . Eve Golden with Kim Kendall. University Press of Kentucky; 2002. Since most if not all of the major ...

MR. STRANGELOVE: A BIOGRAPHY OF PETER SELLERS . Ed Sikov. Hyperion; 2002. " He was amoral, dangerous, vindictive, totally selfish, ...

ALICE FAYE: A LIFE BEYOND THE SILVER SCREEN . Jane Lenz Elder. University Press of Mississippi; 2002. Alice Faye is one of the few movie...

Crawford, of course The "Essential" Biography : Quirk; Schoell JOAN! (and I don't mean Joan Collins) This week on th...

SUSAN HAYWARD: Her Films and Life . Kim R. Holston. McFarland; 2002. This is essentially a well-done, illustrated career study of Susan ...

Rosamund Pike and Halle Berry DIE ANOTHER DAY  (2002). Director: Lee Tamahori. James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) is captured during a missio...

YOU'RE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR NEXT ONE: 100 Great films, 100 Good films, and 100 For Which I Should Be Shot . Mike Medavoy with Josh You...

Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore FAR FROM HEAVEN  (2002). Writer/director: Todd Haynes. " I've fallen in love with someone w...

Angela Bettis as Carrie White CARRIE (2002 telefilm). Director: David Carson. This unnecessary TV remake of Brian De Palm...

An intense Joan Crawford BATTLE-AXE: THE MAKING OF "STRAIT-JACKET." (2002). Producer/director: Jeffrey Schwarz. " We ha...

GOING TO PIECES: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SLASHER FILM, 1978 - 1986 . Adam Rockoff. McFarland; 2002. When such films as Halloween  and F...

CREEPSHOWS: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide . Stephen Jones. Billboard Books; 2002. This volume offers an excellent look into the m...

STAR TREK NEMESIS (2002). Director: Stuart Baird. This was another big-screen movie using the characters not from the original Star Trek , ...

CRUSH (2002/British). Director/screenwriter: John McKay. Andie MacDowell is a headmistress in a small town who is friends with two women (I...

TADPOLE (2002) Director: Gary Winick. Screenplay by Heather McGowan and Niels Mueller. An intelligent fifteen-year-old who fancies himself ...

LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2002). Director: Peter Jackson. In the first installment of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, you...

ROAD TO PERDITION (2002). Director: Sam Mendes. The graphic novel this film was based on was probably more effective, because Road to Perdit...

BELOW (2002). Director: David Twohy. Mildly strange occurrences on a submarine during World War 2 lead some of the more suggestible members...