Cinema Sojourns

In the grand tradition of Samson vs. the Vampire Women (1962), Blue Demon vs. the Infernal Brain (1967) or any of the countless Mexican horror adventures featuring the masked wrestler Santo, Night of the Bloody Apes (1972) takes a popular mini-genre in Me…

The days when famous large scale traveling circuses like the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey toured the country are long past but they live on in the movies.

Grave-robbing, desecration of the dead, sacrificial blood rites, inhuman experiments and murder are just a few of the grisly ingredients of The Mad Ghoul (1943), which despite its lurid title is not a poverty row quickie but a polished and … Continue read…

Edna has been married to Harry for 20 years and has devoted all of her time and energy to their marriage and home.

In America during the mid-1950s there was a backlash against conservatism and conformity which was fueled by the rise of rock ‘n’ roll and a pervasive mood of rebelliousness and frustration among teenagers.

In 1942, director Preston Sturges was rapidly approaching his career peak in Hollywood.

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Sex tourism has been around for centuries but it really started to flourish in the 1800s.

*This archived article originally appeared on the Turner Classic Movies website in September 2021.

Have you seen any good Lithuanian films lately?

During the post-war years in Japan, a new generation of filmmakers began to address the changing social and political changes in their country which earned them the label of the Nuberu Bagu.

*This is an archival interview from 2004 that originally appeared on the Turner Classic Movies website.

During the early years of the VHS boom movie lovers were suddenly able to access hundreds of films they had always wanted to see but weren’t available on TV or had never played movie houses in their town.

PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) is a term that became prominent in 1980 when the American Psychiatric Association recognized it as a mental health diagnosis that was often used to describe Vietnam War veterans and Holocaust survivors.

Some movie lovers may be familiar with the Camargue region in the south of France since it has figured prominently in a number of films, especially 1953’s Crin Blanc: Le Cheval Sauvage (English title, White Mane), Albert Lamorisse’s lyrical tale … Continue

It is hard to believe that Raoul Walsh, the man who directed The Roaring Twenties (1939), High Sierra (1941), They Died with Their Boots On (1941), Objective, Burma!

The year is 1910 and you work in a factory in the North West region of England where you are given a week off every year.

While some point to The Asphalt Jungle in 1950 as the film that really marked the emergence of the heist film, the genre had actually been in existence since the silent era with The Great Train Robbery (1903) a prime … Continue reading →