Where Fact And Fantasy Tragically Collide
DIRECTED BY JOHN BRAHM/1945
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 21, 2017/KINO LORBER STUDIO CLASSICS
Three walks around i...
Ah-ah-ah-SCARED! With 8 Classic Bud & Lou Fright Comedies
Universal Studios, the late 1940s. With TV chipping away at movie attendance and audiences dwindl...
Studio-Era Hollywood's Still-Beguiling Screen Sphinx
“There just aren't any faces like that any more. Well, maybe one – Garbo.”
From evocative titles for sile...
Hollywood's Last Great Glamor Girl
As a four-year-old, the first movie my mom remembered seeing in a theater was Audrey Hepburn's first Hollywood-starring role...
Hollywood's Everyman From America's Heartland
The summer after I graduated from UW-Madison I took a temp position with the Wisconsin Historical Society. Best j...
At Least Three Good Scenes And No Bad Ones…?
DIRECTORS: JOEL AND ETHAN COEN/2016
Despite regularly tepid response from common moviegoers, the Hollywood film i...
Are You Or Have You Ever Been A Party To Condescending Biopics?
DIRECTOR: JAY ROACH/2015
“Liberal claptrap!”
That’s how the late film critic Joe Williams...
A Slightly Obsessed Genre Special!
OVERVIEW
Back in 2013 I started a weekly, self-imposed discipline of movie write-ups on my Facebook page. My intent—besides...
Follow ZekeFilm Over The Rainbow!
Wind her up. let her go, and stand back! When it came to Judy Garland, that was the prevailing wisdom among MGM’s musical mak...
Cold as Ice, Warm as the Sun
Welcome to the inaugural entry in our new Film Admissions column!
Each time (monthly, or thereabouts), all ZekeFilm contributor...
