Image courtesy Lolita’s Classics. – It’s often assumed that Norma Shearer’s good-girl image ended with the 1930 pre-Code flick The Divorcee, but that film, in truth, was the fourth in a row featuring the new, mature, slightly naughty Shearer. Beginning with The Trial of Mary Dugan and followed up immediately with The Last of Mrs.…
Stage Fright ★★☆☆☆ Dir: Jerome Sable Magnet Releasing (Official Site) 88 minutes In theaters May 9, 2014 and on DVD July 7, 2014 – It’s too late to deny that the indie horror genre has been weighed down under what can only be described as a full-blown glut of Brian De Palma imitators. A few…
As High as the Sky ★★★★☆ Dir: Nikki Braendlin Cinema Libre 90 minutes Released on DVD May 6, 2014 and On Demand June 6, 2014 – Margaret (Caroline Fogarty) is a tightly-wrapped party planner who shuffles around her home in cleaning slippers, adjusting every perfectly-appointed pillow and tchotchke to within an inch of its…
A lot of people for a lot of years tried to make Johnny Mack Brown happen. The handsome All-American halfback-turned-actor cut his teeth on a few silent films before being cast as the ostensible male lead in Our Dancing Daughters (1928), with Joan Crawford, Dorothy Sebastian and Anita Page originating a trio of what would…