Dec 11 Love1 Mission Impossible: Acute Action Filmmaking By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews Based on a hit television series from the 1960’s, Mission Impossible was revived for the big screen in the summer…Read More
Dec 06 Love1 Rope: Hitchcock, Murder and a Screenplay with Hurdles By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews Murder is often the theme that many of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest films revolve around. He loved to play with the…Read More
Nov 25 Love1 Ace in the Hole: Ambition for Yellow Journalism By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews In the news business, money is made not from heartwarming tales of love and positivity but rather on stories that…Read More
Nov 22 Love1 A Face in the Crowd: Worthiness vs. Emptiness By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews The history of musical talent that relied more on pomp and circumstance than actual music ability goes back for as…Read More
Nov 18 Love1 King of New York: Abel Ferrara Brings a City to Life By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews New York in the 90’s was a far cry from what a visitor might see today. Instead of family fun…Read More
Nov 15 Love0 The Jerk: This, and That By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews Born from a line out of Steve Martin’s stand up act, The Jerk is a rags to riches to rags…Read More
Nov 08 Love0 In the Heat of the Night: They Call Him Mr. Tibbs By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews The same year that the first black man was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice of the United States,…Read More
Nov 01 Love0 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The American Way By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the third of three films in the “Dollars Trilogy” made by Sergio Leone,…Read More
Oct 28 Love0 The Killing: Deceptively Simple Crime By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews Using the classic crime film noir pictures of the 1940’s as his guide, Stanley Kubrick set out to create his…Read More
Oct 28 Love0 Youth of the Beast: Unflinching and Unwavering By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews Seijun Suzuki had already made several dozen films in the Japanese studio system by the time he began work on…Read More