Life and Death in L.A.

Robert Mitchum, "The Night of the Hunter" (1955). By Paul Parcellin I first saw “The Night of the Hunter” (1955) around 20 or so ...

John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, "Somewhere in the Night" (1946). Battle Fatigue on the Homefront: Two views of life after the big one By...

Four vets attending college on the GI Bill and a cabaret singer try to rob a Reno casino and  pull off the perfect crime.  ‘Five Against the...

  I should have known better than to smuggle a chicken burrito into the theater from the taqueria next door to it. Why, you ask? Let’s jus...

Elliot Gould in 'The Silent Partner.' E lliot Gould is Miles Cullen, a Toronto bank teller whose chief companions are tropical fi...

A scene from 'The Crimson Kimono,'  a 1959 thriller directed by Samuel Fuller. I 'm a little late in posting a link to the g...

Orson Welles prepares a crucial scene in "Touch of Evil" D owntown L.A.'s refurbished Million Dollar Theater recently scre...

Whenever I see him in interviews, Martin Scorsese never fails to amaze me with the breadth of his film knowledge. Click on thi...

Vincent, left, and Jules settle a score. S ome may quibble with “Pulp Fiction”’s herky jerky storyline. It dodges back and forth from th...

Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger? Yup, the actor who played Dillinger in "Public Enemies" is going to play another crime icon, and ...

Living dangerously, Tony Camonte muscles in on his boss's girlfriend. "S carface" (1932) is one of the seminal American g...