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Copyright 2019 by Michael W. Rickard II While there have been some great years for films, I still have trouble recalling a blockbuster...

Copyright 2019 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: In 2016 I wrote a paper for my undergraduate senior project on the Red Western, a...

Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II You’ll believe a mag can fly in BACK ISSUE #109 (84 FULL-COLOR pages, $8.95), as we celebrate the...

Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: In 2016 I wrote a paper for my undergraduate senior project on the Red Western, a...

Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: In 2016 I wrote a paper for my undergraduate senior project on the Red Western, a...

Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: In 2016 I wrote a paper for my undergraduate senior project on the Red Western, a...

Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: In 2016 I wrote a paper for my undergraduate senior project on the Red Western, a...

Editor's Note: Originally presented at my site Jack Lord's Hair, way back in 2015. After watching Taste the Blood of Dracula (a bizarre...

Julius Caesar fell prey on this day, failing to acknowledge the warning, "Beware the Ides of March." In 1999, William Shatner performed...

The intensity of war has provided dramatic material dating back to antiquity with Homer’s epic poem, "The Illiad", and continuing today...

Filmgoers looking for a good scare need not go to a horror film as there are all sorts of scares to be found in the genre known as the...

What 9-year-old wouldn't go crazy over this film? I’ve discussed a lot of anniversaries over this blog’s history such as Dark Shadows,...

Another important cinematic element is dramatic performances. Francois Truffaut observed about Hitchcock that "The neutrality you expect...

Here's a final paper I wrote in 2015 on Hitchcock's classic Rear Window. Another scene relies on visuals to explore "Murder's" themes of...

Here's a final paper I wrote in 2015 on Hitchcock's classic Rear Window. For Alfred Hitchcock, a literary text was merely a starting...

Here's a final paper I wrote in 2015 on Hitchcock's classic Rear Window. Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is a masterfully worked cinematic...

Editor's Note: This is an essay I wrote two years ago about Robert Mulligan's wonderful adaptation of Harper Lee's classic To Kill a...

Editor's Note: Here's an essay I wrote two years ago on Robert Mulligan's adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Filmmakers...

Editor's Note: Here's a journal I wrote nearly three years ago about Alfred Hitchcock's film Rebecca. Like most articles here, this...

William Friedkins's To Live and Die in L.A., a terrific thriller film, but does it qualify as film noir? Join me for part fourof this...