We've all heard about how cutthroat the movie industry can be. Vincent Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful is a look at just how cutthroat one Hollywood producer is willing to be in the name of success.
(Original version posted on Channel Awesome on December 30, 2013)
We've all heard about how cutthroat the movie industry can be. Vincent Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful is a look at just how cutthroat one Hollywood producer is willing to be in the name of success.
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(Originally posted on Channel Awesome on December 23, 2013)
Two martial arts experts join forces against a deadly foe in The Secret Rivals, an often overlooked gem of martial arts cinema. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on December 15, 2013)
A lot of people are surprised when I tell them that Brian de Palma's Scarface (1983), starring Al Pacino, is a remake of an earlier film. This version of Scarface, directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Howard Hughes for United Artists, is an excellent movie from the days of Pre-Code Hollywood, and easily stands up alongside the numerous high-quality gangster films released by Warner Bros. around the same time. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on December 9, 2013) Swashbucklers have been a key part of my life for as long as I can remember. My interest in fencing, fight choreography, and pretty much anything having to do with sword fighting originally came from the movies, and from there, I got into literary sword fights as well. As I began writing my novels, and my own fight scenes, I'd turn to these books and movies for tips and pointers (pun only slightly intended) on how to choreograph them, and how I want them to play out in the readers' imagination. In fact, the sword fights in my novels, particularly The Brotherhood of the Black Flag, are designed to resemble the sword fights from movies, rather than realistic combat.
(Original version posted on Channel Awesome on December 2, 2013)
Tyrone Power sets out to bring justice to California in The Mark of Zorro, an excellent swashbuckler from Hollywood's Golden Age. |
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