Month: April 2020

The 7-episode limited series Hollywood, Ryan Murphy’s second project at Netflix, premieres May 1. Co-created by Ian Brennan (Glee), the dramedy imagines a reality where society’s underdogs (African-Americans, Asians, homosexuals, women) are able to make it big in post-War Tinseltown. EW TV critics Kristen Baldwin and Darren Franich debate the merits of Murphy and Brennan’s… via… Continue reading ‘Hollywood’ review: Ryan Murphy’s showbiz dramedy splits EW’s critics — Networthy Newz

Undercurrent (1947) is definitely not a film that many mention in connection with any of its three stars, which really is a shame, because it’s a film that deserves more attention. I’ve read some reviews that have called it a Gaslight knock off, and while Undercurrent shares some elements with that film, it is decidedly… Continue reading Rolling in the Deep: Katherine Hepburn in “Undercurrent” (1946) — Pale Writer

Licence To Kill (1989) has suffered from a bad reputation for years. Many have wrongly asserted that it bombed at the box office and that the film was critically panned. While the film did not perform as strongly in the US as past entries, the film still earned $156 million dollars at the box office, […]… Continue reading The Art of Vengeance: A Love Letter to “Licence To Kill” (1989) — Pale Writer

The year before All That Heaven Allows was released, Joseph Breen left the position of head of the Hollywood motion picture censorship office. All That Heaven allows is not one of the films that truly marked the end of the code, films such as The Moon Is Blue, The Man With the Golden Arm and […]… Continue reading To Thine Own Self Be True: “All That Heaven Allows” (1955) — Pale Writer

Wikipedia calls The Crow an American superhero film, but for me, it’s more a gothic horror/romance film. The Crow isn’t really a superhero, he’s an antihero who becomes like that because of circumstances. He reminds me more Darkman than Clark Kent. via Rain and Revenge: The Crow (1994) — Pale Writer

The Hitchcock blonde has become a part of popular culture, a creature with varying shades of blonde hair, from honey to ice to strawberry, who embodies beauty, mystery, seduction and at times, danger. The actress, however, who seemed to entirely realise Hitchcock’s vision of the perfect leading lady for his films, was Grace Kelly. The […]… Continue reading A Match Made in Hollywood: The films of Grace Kelly and Alfred Hitchcock — Pale Writer

Choosing five essential performances for Al Pacino is nearly impossible. Ask me in a few days time and I may swap out one film for another, because his filmography is such an embarrassment of riches. In every film he’s been in I can never take my eyes off of him. Even in Once Upon A… Continue reading Al Pacino’s Five Essential Performances — Pale Writer

Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant made four films together, the most famous of which is An Affair to Remember, but four years before they declared their love for one another on an ocean liner and immortalised the Empire State Building; they starred in a comedy called Dream Wife. via Nightmare Wife: Deborah Kerr in “Dream Wife”… Continue reading Nightmare Wife: Deborah Kerr in “Dream Wife” (1953) — Pale Writer

In 1968, Mia Farrow showed that she could play a character that required both exhaustive physical and psychological realisation. In Rosemary’s Baby, she played a young woman who has the unimaginable happen to her, and she was rightly nominated for a BAFTA and Academy Award for her efforts. A year before that, in 1967, Audrey… Continue reading A Sightless Evil: Mia Farrow in “See No Evil” (1971) — Pale Writer

The first time I watched Rosemary’s Baby I turned to my mom and said, “I want her haircut.” And I got it. To be fair, I lacked the lithe elegance of Mia Farrow and still had some baby fat, so the result was not quite what I hoped. But when I was in my mid… Continue reading The Story of an Iconic Hair don’t that became a HairDo: Mia Farrow’s pixie cut — Pale Writer