Radiant floor systems are ideal for heating large volumes of space. Rata-tat-tat echoed from the other side of the hangar as a mechanic drove an aluminum rivet head into a nice round shape to match the 100 other rivets that held a...

Not so long ago, it seemed we were in for a chilli invasion. Picking up from Santa Fe and the American line in Southwestern cooking, we were to have pale yellow "chawas", chocolate-coloured "chili pasillas", smoky "poblanos", and dimpled orange "manzanas". I, for...

Lee Marvin (1924–1987) brought a distinctive brand of amused and often bemused virility to over 60 action films from 1951 to 1986, the best of which are being shown by the Film Society of Lincoln Center from May 11 to May 24. Marvin won his...

The suggestion that there are some filmmakers we have to work to appreciate often implies that moviegoers should be prepared to suffer for the sake of art. We accept that there are writers who require perseverance, perhaps because we associate reading with learning, but we...

It seems a long time since Fritz Lang gave us a good film: in fact, the sense of strain and stylistic pretentiousness in his recent work—when it has not been mere commercial hokum—had almost made one abandon hope. This makes it the more unfortunate that his latest film [The Big Heat] should have passed almost unnoticed. For it is an extremely good thriller, distinguished by precisely those virtues which Lang's pictures have in the past few years so painfully lacked: tautness and speed; ...