GREAT OLD MOVIES

ROUND UP OF NEW AND RECENT FILMS PART NINE. Hipsters  ( Stilyagi /2008) is a Russian musical set in Moscow in 1955. Mels (Anton Shagin) belo...

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone  LA LA LAND  (2019). Written and directed by Damien Chazelle. Mia (Emma Stone of The Amazing Spider-Man )...

CARY GRANT, DARK ANGEL  Geoffrey Wansell. Arcade; 2016. This updated version of Wansell's biography of Grant is a coffee table trad...

THE PURPLE DIARIES: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s . Joseph Egan. Diversion; 2016. In the 1930s act...

CONVERSATIONS WITH CLASSIC FILM STARS: Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era . James Bawden and Ron Miller.  University Press of Ken...

Florence Pugh and Cosmo Jarvis LADY MACBETH  (2016). Director: William Oldroyd. Katherine (Florence Pugh) lives on a farm in 19th cen...

Davis with Baxter, Monroe and Sanders in All About Eve DISCOVERING BETTE DAVIS.  This documentary on the great film star is part of a...

Jannis Niewohner JONATHAN  (2016). Director: Piotr J. Lewandowski. Jonathan (Jannis Niewohner) lives on a farm in Germany where he tak...

DEBRA PAGET, FOR EXAMPLE  (2016). Writer/director: Mark Rappaport. Debra Paget was one of a legion of Hollywood contract players who did...

MONSTROUS NATURE: ENVIRONMENT AND HORROR ON THE BIG SCREEN . Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann. University of Nebraska Press; 2016. ...

SOME ENCHANTED EVENINGS: The Glittering Life and Times of MARY MARTIN . David Kaufman. St. Martin's; 2016. Mary Martin went to Holly...

Jesse Eisenberg CAFE SOCIETY  (2016). Writer/director: Woody Allen. " First a murderer, then a Christian -- what did I do to des...

ON SONDHEIM: AN OPINIONATED GUIDE . Ethan Mordden. Oxford University Press; 2016. Mordden, who has written several informative, engaging...

Natalie Portman as Jackie JACKIE  (2016). Director: Pablo Larrain. Jacqueline Kennedy was the most famous, admired, and influential wo...

Christian Slater KING COBRA (2016). Written and directed by Justin Kelly. Sean (Garrett Clayton) reinvents himself as Cobra films'...

A Really Bad Guy: Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) X-MEN: APOCALYPSE  (2016). Director: Bryan Singer. In 1983 Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbende...

TARZAN ON FILM . Scott Tracy Griffin. Foreword by Casper Van Dien. Titan; 2016. Griffin, who previously authored Tarzan: The Centennial ...

Jake Gyllenhaal NOCTURNAL ANIMALS  (2016). Director: Tom Ford. Unhappily re-married Susan (Amy Adams), who works for an art gallery sp...

Blown Away : Nicole Eggert, Corey Haim Here we are again, with reviews-in-brief of movies that are less than twenty-five years old. B...

Trevante Rhodes MOONLIGHT  (2016). Written and directed by Barry Jenkins. Chiron (Alex R. Hibbert) is a little boy living in a depress...