The Films of Robert Wise Richard C. Keenan, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. One can easily find reasons to embrace this book that discusses the career of one of Hollywood's most dependable-and likable-directors. And what a career it was! Robert Wise was handpicked...

Now in its fifth year, the National Film Theatre's Fantasm festival rolls around once more, offering audiences a bloodbath of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Marginalised from the mainstream by their low budgets, lurid plot lines and often rather "expressive" acting styles, the...

They don't seem like much at first glance, the two boxes of yellowing letters sitting amid the shelves of aged leather-bound volumes.But the 274 epistles have unlocked two decades' worth of mysteries about the years of correspondence between author Flannery O'Connor and longtime friend, Elizabeth...

Studios almost never admit to being wrong. So Warner Bros.’ decision to release John Huston’s Reflections in a Golden Eye in its original tinted version is not only a major act of restoration, but a major act of humility. (The film is available as part...

John Huston is clearly a survivor, and … Wise Blood provides ample evidence that he has outlasted every movie mogul who ever tried to sweeten the sourness and pessimism in Huston's personality…. Admirers of the late Flannery O'Connor may have strong reservations about Huston's direction and Benedict Fitzgerald's screenplay. Actually, Huston and Fitzgerald have softened the novel's unbearably bleak ending ever so slightly, but most of the pain and suffering an...