James Whale is best remembered for his his horror films Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), and Bride of [...]

    Pre-code films from Universal (many of them previously only available in duped copies or worn out prints) continue to be restored and made [...]

First, a confession: Before watching The Mad Game I was not a huge Spencer Tracy fan, feeling that at some point in his career he took his acting advice of [...]

When people ask me about my combined interests in film and medicine, I answer that the essence of medicine is about communication, which is also the point [...]

I don’t like to say a film has been ‘rediscovered,’ it always makes me wonder who found the film in the first place and then who lost it. [...]

A pre-Code version of The Sea Wolf? What more could my cold-but-still-beating heart of darkness desire? MoMA gave me this wish this week when they screened [...]

How do I talk about King of Jazz without saying: wow…I mean WOW! It’s a very unique movie, filmed at the very beginning of the sound era, but [...]

The story of a “good bad man” has been a staple of the Western since the genre was invented in the early years of cinema. And if one good bad [...]

Driftwood (1947) directed by Allan Dwan I have never seen an Allan Dwan film that wasn’t worth seeing, and with Dwan either directing or responsible [...]

    A prevalent cultural stereotype (perhaps less so now than a generation ago) is that since Germanic people have a limited sense of humor, they [...]