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Movie Review: I, Frankenstein
In the long history of horror fiction, few characters are as iconic and well-known as the Frankenstein monster. Mary Shelley’s creation has appeared hundreds of times across different media, and his name and image are instantly recognizable the world over. While the most famous cinematic depiction of the creature is, of course, Boris Karloff in James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931), many o...[Read More]
Movie Review: That Awkward Moment
Romantic comedies aren’t for everyone, but I’ll admit that they are for me. There, I’ve said it. Even your garden-variety now-only-five-bucks-on-the-end cap-at-Target flicks born from a script that’s been recycled dozens of times call to me. There’s just something comfortable about the genre. You know what’s coming. There’s a love story. There’s a wr...[Read More]
Pre-Code Hollywood 2: Music, Comedy, Action and Adventure
Pre-Code Hollywood studios spent millions transitioning their medium to sound and other new technologies that brought about major advances in photography, lighting, and set design. But there were still five million unemployed people in the United States and many more just getting by. The studios were losing money, many of them going bankrupt. By 1930 the breadlines were longer than the ticket line...[Read More]